A short sample essay on children's safety and first aid experience

The priority of child safety protection is always much higher than emergency first aid. As long as ordinary people master 3-5 high-frequency applicable first aid skills, it is 10 times more effective than memorizing a complete set of theories by rote.

I encountered an unexpected situation in the community before: my grandma was feeding jelly to her three-year-old grandson, and the baby choked and couldn't breathe. One of the two mothers nearby yelled for a pat on the back, and the other reached out to scratch her throat. Both of them were so panicked that their hands were shaking, which was delayed for half a minute. In the end, I rushed over and used the Heimlich maneuver to expel the jelly in 30 seconds. The current popular science on children's first aid online is actually divided into two schools of thought: one is a group of bloggers with professional medical backgrounds who advocate "full coverage of science". Common emergencies such as burns and scalds, fractures, allergies, convulsions, and foreign bodies in the airway must be systematically studied. It is always right to have too many skills but not too much. ； The other group is that people like us who are doing front-line science popularization prefer "key breakthroughs" - after all, most parents usually have to go to work and take care of their children, so they can't spare the time to read a complete first aid manual. If they cram in too many knowledge points, they end up remembering everything, and their minds will go blank if something goes wrong.

Let me talk about a pitfall that I have stepped into. When I first became a lecturer, I was very serious. I made 20 to 30 pages of PPT for each training, covering everything from damage mechanisms to operational points. I wanted to give all the knowledge points to the parents. As a result, when I asked everyone what they had remembered, nine out of ten people scratched their heads and said it was too complicated, so they just remembered the name of Heimlich. Later, I learned well and taught the three most common skills in each training: different Heimlich maneuvers for children under 1 year old/over 1 year old, flushing with cold water for 15 minutes immediately after burns and scalds, don’t apply toothpaste and soy sauce, don’t stuff things in people during febrile convulsions, don’t pinch people, just lie flat on their sides, and leave 20 minutes each time for everyone to practice with dolls. Basically, all the parents present can remember it. Last year, there was a mother who just listened to my class two months ago. When she turned around, her baby choked on half a peanut. She didn't panic at the time. She followed the instructions and coughed up the peanuts in 10 seconds. Later, she bought fruit and went to the community service station to thank me. She said that before, she might just hold her baby and cry, and something might happen.

Oh, by the way, there is another point that many people make mistakes. I always say it again and again: if the baby falls, don’t shake it around. If the baby is not vomiting, can respond normally, and is in a good mental state, observe it at home first. If nothing happens, take it for a CT scan. Radiation is not good for the baby. If the baby appears comatose or vomits frequently, call an ambulance immediately. This is what the cooperating pediatrician repeatedly emphasized to us. There are also old misunderstandings about old people raising babies that should really sound the alarm. Last winter, a baby knocked over the warm tea at home. Grandma applied a thick layer of toothpaste on the spot, saying it could reduce the temperature and relieve the pain. When the baby was sent to the hospital, the doctor said that the toothpaste trapped the heat in the skin. It was originally a first-degree burn, but it suddenly became a shallow second-degree burn. The thick toothpaste had to be removed before applying medicine. The baby suffered the same sin.

In fact, the first thing I talk about every time I give a lecture is not first aid, but how to prevent it: put anti-collision strips on the corners of tables, always put hot water bottles on the countertop out of the reach of children, do not give jelly peanuts and whole grapes to children under three years old, install limiters on windows, and lock all medicines in drawers. If done well, these little things can prevent more than 90% of accidental injuries to children, and they are more useful than no matter how skilled you are in first aid. You don’t have to think that first aid is difficult, and you don’t have to force yourself to become a professional first aid person. You can save a children’s first aid flow chart from a regular tertiary hospital in your mobile phone album. If you encounter a situation you have never seen before, call 120 first and follow the operator’s instructions. It is better than blindly trying folk remedies. When taking care of a baby, it’s always good to be careful.