4-year-old girl bites through the mercury thermometer, smart sister deals with it in 60 seconds, and the doctor praises "doing it right"

Cuckoo Mom

2024-05-29 19:22Posted in Hunan Parenting Creators

My friend told me one thing, and she said that she was scared to death.

This kind of thing may also be encountered in our daily life, so it may be useful to understand it and master more knowledge.

One: A 4-year-old girl bites through the mercury thermometer, and the smart sister deals with it in 60 seconds

Because there are children at home, it is inevitable that there will be some minor illnesses in daily life, so friends like to prepare some children's medicines and thermometers at home.

She kept the thermometer and the medicine in a box, and she didn't usually take them out much, so she put them in the cupboard.

Once she was stir-frying and heard her eldest daughter screaming in the bedroom, she hurriedly ran over to look. I saw that the medicine box was taken out, the medicine box was scattered all over the ground, and the thermometer was in the mouth of the 4-year-old daughter.

What's worse is that the thermometer has been bitten by the little daughter, and the mercury is dripping out, and some of it is scattered on the ground!

She was stupid at that time, quickly took away the thermometer, and made her daughter vomit quickly, while her mind kept thinking: It's over, it's over, what should I do?

The eldest daughter on the side was calmer, while comforting her mother not to panic, saying that she had seen this kind of knowledge; While pulling his mother and sister to the living room.

The eldest daughter found a flashlight and asked her sister to open her mouth wide. She looked inside, and then told her mother that it was okay, that there was nothing in my sister's mouth, and that she should have just vomited it.

Later, she brought a carton of milk for her sister to drink.

Then, the eldest daughter put on her mother's dishwashing gloves, cleaned up the broken thermometer and mercury residue in the bedroom, and instructed her mother to open the window for ventilation.

To do this, it takes less than 60 seconds. The eldest daughter asked her mother to take her sister to the hospital quickly.

The doctor took a film and found that the child did have a little mercury in his stomach, but it was not a big problem. When your child goes home, eat more crude fiber foods, such as long leeks, to promote excretion.

After learning about the treatment process, the doctor gave the eldest daughter a thumbs up: worthy of being a scholar, doing it too right!

2: What should I do if I break the mercury?

CCTV has popularized science that mercury can evaporate at room temperature, and the higher the temperature, the faster it evaporates, and the easier it is to be inhaled into the body.

Some experimenters tested by breaking 2 mercury thermometers in the bedroom and measuring the mercury concentration in the air.

It was found that the concentration of mercury indoors was 1,000 times higher than that outdoors, which is very dangerous for indoor personnel!

Therefore, if we encounter a situation where the mercury thermometer is broken, we must deal with it properly to avoid injury.

(1) Drink milk and eat egg whites immediately after ingestion

If your child accidentally swallows mercury, we should immediately let your child drink protein-containing things such as milk and egg whites.

Because protein can bind to mercury, neutralize toxicity, delay absorption, and thus protect his stomach.

In addition, you can also let your child eat foods that are difficult to digest with crude fiber, just like the doctor said above, eat long leeks, celery, etc., to promote excretion.

However, no matter what you eat, it is only an emergency treatment, and the most important thing is to see a doctor in time and deal with it professionally.

(2) Ventilation

If the stove or air conditioner is turned on in the house when the weather is cold, turn off the heating equipment.

As mentioned above, the higher the temperature, the faster the mercury evaporates, and the easier it is for it to enter the body through our respiratory tract.

Compared with swallowing mercury, inhaling mercury gas is actually more harmful!

Therefore, we also need to open the windows to let the air flow and reduce the amount of tribute in the air as much as possible.

(3) Do not come into direct contact with mercury

When we dispose of residual mercury scattered on the floor, do not touch it directly with your hands, and do not drag it with a damp rag or mop. Prevent mercury from evaporating from a solid state into a gaseous state and scattering it into the air.

We can wear gloves and masks and use cardboard to collect mercury into mineral water bottles. It is better to put some water in the bottle so that the mercury will sink to the bottom of the water and no longer volatilize.

If some of the mercury is hard to get, tape it and put it in the bottle.

(4) Treatment of mercury

Do not litter the collected mercury to avoid secondary pollution. We can hand it over to the environmental authorities.

In addition, the mercury thermometer at home should be kept properly so that it is not accidentally broken by the child.

If you really encounter a situation where mercury is scattered, you must not panic, do the correct emergency treatment first, and then go to the doctor immediately to minimize the damage.

Do you have a mercury thermometer at home?

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