A child swallows an object – what should I do?

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First measures:

• Alert paramedics 144.
• Calm and raise the affected child to an upright position.
• Encourage coughing if he is old enough to understand. There is nothing more effective than your own cough.

For shortness of breath and inadequate coughing
(children under 1 year old)

• Lay the child on their tummy on their arms with their head at the lowest point. Be sure to stabilize your head by holding your chin with your fingers. baby 5 fists in the back place it between the shoulder blades.

• Turn the child on his back and check if there is a foreign object that can be removed in the mouth. If not, a chest compressions do by 5 times with 2 fingers the sternum presses between the nipples by about 3 centimeters. In this case, there is compression of the chest to push out any foreign body.

• Check the mouth again to see if a foreign body is visible. If not, continue until the foreign body comes out or the child faints.
• As soon as the foreign body is removed or can be removed, control your breathing. If the child starts breathing or coughing again, turn him on his side or sit up straight.
• child unconscious to be one again chest compressions to do. with this time 15 reps.
• Check the mouth and see if the foreign body is visible and removable. if not, ventilate the child from mouth to mouth and hold your nose. The chest should rise noticeably! In most cases, it will be possible to blow air past the foreign body or to blow the foreign body down to push it to one side of the lung and free the other side of the lung again. Until help arrives, one side of the lung is sufficient for oxygen uptake.

For shortness of breath and inadequate coughing
(children over 1 year old)

• This Heimlich maneuver to do:
  • Hug the child from behind and hold them close to your body. Make a fist with one hand and place it under the rib cage in the stomach area. Grasp the fist of one hand with the other and apply strong pressure to the stomach several times, pulling your hands towards you. You do this until you spit out the foreign body.

• If this does not happen and the child becomes unconscious, repeat chest compressions. to do. with this time 15 reps. Chest compressions in infants and young children can often be performed with one hand/arm; older children require both hands/arms.

• Check the mouth and see if the foreign body is visible and removable. If not, give the child mouth-to-mouth ventilation and pinch his nose. The chest should rise noticeably! In most cases, it will be possible to blow air past the foreign body or to blow the foreign body down to push it to one side of the lung and free the other side of the lung again. Until help arrives, one side of the lung is sufficient for oxygen uptake.

good to know that

• Everyone swallowed object is an emergency, even if it is not currently causing any breathing difficulties. Notify the paramedics immediately!
• in children under one year The Heimlich maneuver is dangerousbecause the liver and spleen protrude below the costal arch and can be injured by maneuver.
• After each Heimlich maneuver The child needs to go to an emergency examination. to hospital will be brought.
• who is a boy easily swallowed and he coughs, stroking his back steep sits, it doesn’t bring anything.

Source : Blick