A few days ago, a 6-year-old child in Qin County, Shanxi Province, was poisoned by accidentally eating drugs due to illness and was urgently sent to the hospital for rescue.
At about the same time, two boys in Shanxi mistakenly ate their grandfather's aspirin as a sugar pill, and only got better after positive treatment such as gastric lavage and enemas.
In November last year, a child in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, was unconscious by taking drugs by mistake, but was fortunately found by his mother to seek medical treatment in time and survived.
Some children mistakenly ate the antihypertensive drugs of the elderly, and unfortunately died because they were not sent to the hospital in time.
Due to the limited awareness of dangerous goods in children, coupled with some behaviors of daily adults, they will also mislead children, resulting in serious consequences.
So, when this happens, how should parents respond?
1. See if there is any residual medicine in the child's mouth, if so, let him spit it out or cut it out and keep it.
2. Do not blindly induce vomiting, self-inducing vomiting may cause aspiration and suffocation;
3. It is not recommended to self-direct diarrhea to avoid unnecessary diarrhea, intestinal spasms, intestinal perforation and other diseases;
4. Do not feed children vinegar and steamed buns;
5. Collect the boxes, instructions, and residues of the medicine that the child has accidentally ingested and take them to the hospital.
6. Take your child to the hospital immediately.
Also, before the tragedy occurs, take precautions in advance, keep the medicines at home properly, and don't tell your children that the drugs are sugar pills.
First, not only are the diet pills that we adults usually eat, or the health care drugs that the elderly eat, etc., all drugs should be carefully stored, it is best to use a locked box, usually locked up.
Children don't know it's a drug, and in their eyes, they might think it's a good-tasting candy. After a large amount of ingestion, whether it is the effect of the drug itself, or the side effects, it may cause great harm to the little child.
Second, when feeding medicine to children, do not use "this is candy" to trick children into taking medicines to avoid children from confusing "sugar" and "medicine".
Third, when feeding medicines to children, be sure to look after the dosage form and dosage. The wrong dosage is used, and the consequences are unimaginable.
Fourth, when giving medicines to children, you cannot treat the external coating as oral for your child to eat.
Of course, young children will not only eat drugs by mistake, but also eat some other items by mistake, and we parents should pay attention to it.
"Shaanxi City Express" has shown some foreign bodies taken out of the baby's esophagus and stomach by the gastroscopy room doctor, which is definitely worth parents' vigilance, such as plastic sticks, pushpins, rings, batteries, sewing needles, buttons, five-pointed stars, hair cards, nails, stones, mobile phone stylus, etc.
Incidents of misconduct are frequent, and the serious ones are life-threatening. Especially during the holidays, holidays are a period of high incidence of children's accidents, so parents must not relax their vigilance against the safety of their children.