Parents often worry about children’s safety, sometimes excessively nonetheless they need to find the balance between letting them run wild and keeping them out of harms way. How to keep kids safe while letting them run wild.
It is impossible for a child to smother himself by lying face down on a bed with no pillow or getting under the bedclothes. He will come up for air when he needs to. What you need to be worried about are thin plastics since they are both airtight and clingy. If your child puts… [ Continue Reading ]
When food or any other foreign body goes into the lungs instead of the stomach, your child will try to eject it out with a lot of sputtering or coughing. It is nature way of removing alien bodies from the lungs and getting it back to the throat. As long as the child keeps coughing… [ Continue Reading ]
Animals like cats and dogs: A bite or scratch which has only broken the skin can be treated at home. Wash the wound with running water, dry it and cover it with a dry adhesive dressing. Check the wound the next day for any redness or inflammation around it, which would suggest infection. In such… [ Continue Reading ]
Although you may get very scared and your child petrified by the sight of blood, it is actually quite useful if is oozing or dripping out of a wound. It washes away a lot of dirt and germs that would be difficult to clean otherwise. Heavy bleeding: Blood flowing incessantly from a wound takes a… [ Continue Reading ]
A sprain is caused by the tearing of a ligament that supports a joint. The ankle, knee, wrist and shoulder joints are the ones most often affected. The symptoms are pain and swelling. A strain is caused by the over stretching or tearing of muscle fibres. It is usually less serious than a sprain. Do… [ Continue Reading ]
A mild electric shock goves only a brief pins-and-needles sensation. A severe one can knock your child down, render him unconscious and stop both breathing and heartbeat and even burn him. An electrical burn may look quite harmless — a tiny bluish mark. But, it will have caused wide damage to the tissues underneath. Electric… [ Continue Reading ]
Minor cuts need little treatment. Bleeding carries germs out of the wound and seals it as it clots. Put the injured part under cold running water. Do not use antiseptic. If it is strong enough to kill germs, it will damage cut tissue too. Don’t use ointment. It will delay formation of a protective scab…. [ Continue Reading ]
Babies usually do not break bones since their bones are not hard enough. They bend rather than break. Occasionally, they may bend and crack like a green twig rather than rather than snapping like a dry one. This is what is called a greenstick fracture. There are no sharp ends of bone inside the limb… [ Continue Reading ]
Most minor mishaps do not require any medical attention at all. The human body has its own way of dealing with them. In fact, often, administration of first aid by an over-enthusiastic elder can hamper the natural process of healing. For example, antiseptic creams often delay wound-healing while doing little to prevent unlikely infection. Sticking… [ Continue Reading ]
A bruise appears when blood vessels under the skin are crushed or broken and the blood escapes into the tissue. The area looks red at first and then turns bluish black. As the escaped blood is broken down and reabsorbed, the area looks greenish-yellow. Trivial bruises: These are a normal part of life and need… [ Continue Reading ]
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