What should I do if my 4-year-old child accidentally swallows a hard object? After learning this trick, you will be able to deal with it calmly

\”Mom, let me tell you a secret.\” This is what a child likes to say to his mother when he is young. Most of the time, a child\’s secrets are not that important, but sometimes, a child\’s secrets are a matter of life and death. A few days ago, in Zhongshan, Guangdong, a mother was so frightened that she was rushed to the hospital after learning her son\’s secret. It was after dinner on the evening of September 5th. My 4-year-old son suddenly ran over to his mother and said mysteriously: \”Mom, let me tell you a little secret!\” Then the child stretched out his hand, pointed to the thing in his hand and said, \”I You swallowed something like this!\” My mother took a closer look and was horrified. The child\’s hand is a button battery. The child said he had four of these button batteries, swallowed one, dropped two, and only had the last one left! The mother quickly took the child to the hospital for treatment. After receiving the diagnosis, the doctor quickly arranged for the child to undergo an X-ray examination. The results showed that a button-like shadow could be clearly seen on the front and side of the child\’s abdomen. Because it was almost two hours before the child swallowed the battery, the doctor recommended a painless gastroscopy as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the battery falls into the duodenum, there will be no way to perform gastroscopy and the only option is surgery. Surgery is much more invasive than gastroscopy. What’s even more frightening is that the battery is likely to short-circuit or be corroded under the action of gastric and intestinal juices. Once the chemicals in the battery flow out, it will cause serious damage to the intestinal wall, causing intestinal perforation, bleeding, etc. It may even be life-threatening. But when the anesthesiologist asked about the child\’s condition, he discovered a more serious problem. The child had dinner at around 6 o\’clock. He had a very good appetite and ate a lot of food. Two hours later, he swallowed the battery. The surgery was less than 5 hours before dinner, and the stomach was still full of food. At this time, the risk of intravenous anesthesia is very high. If the child vomits during the gastroscopy, food and gastric juice may enter the respiratory tract, posing a risk of suffocation. The gastric juice may damage the lungs, form a chemical reaction, and be life-threatening with disastrous consequences. This situation is really a dilemma. It is very risky to do a gastroscopy right away. But if you don’t do a gastroscopy in time, you will have to wait for the stomach to empty. Once the battery enters the small intestine, you can only perform surgery. The longer you wait, the button battery will rupture and release corrosive chemicals. The higher the risk, no matter what you do, the child\’s life is in danger. After assessing the risks of various options, the doctor decided to give it a go. They first informed the child\’s mother of the risks. After the family agreed, the doctor quickly prepared various rescue equipment and supplies, and after taking rescue measures in case the child vomited, administered intravenous anesthesia to the child. The child\’s attending doctor used a gastroscope to find the battery that was about to enter the duodenum at the entrance of the child\’s gastric antrum. Because the surface of the battery was very smooth, ordinary foreign body forceps could not be used, so the doctor took out the battery through a mesh basket. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes, but looking at the battery taken out is scary. The surface of the battery has turned black and lost its metallic luster. Half an hour later, the anesthesia effect wore off and the child woke up, finally out of danger. Seeing this, everyone couldn\’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the child was okay, and fortunately the battery was taken out in time. But this thing is justThinking about it makes people feel extremely scared. If the child does not tell the mother in time, if the child only has one battery and he cannot speak clearly after swallowing it, or if the child is younger and cannot speak at all, these situations may lead to fatal dangers! A casual search on the Internet will reveal that many babies have suffered serious consequences due to swallowing batteries. A baby over one year old accidentally swallowed a battery and it got stuck in his throat. A week later, when the baby continued to have a high fever, he discovered that the battery had leaked and burned two holes in the baby\’s throat. After a little girl over 2 years old in the UK accidentally swallowed a button battery, the battery triggered a fatal chemical reaction in her body. Although the child was rescued, she was completely paralyzed from the waist down. There are also children who directly swallowed an AA battery… For children, they don\’t know what danger is, and when they are young, they prefer to explore the world with their mouths, and put whatever they get into their mouths. If you check carefully, you will find that in addition to button batteries, there are many other things that children can easily swallow, causing serious consequences. Can you imagine the following items being accidentally swallowed by children? In addition to these items, there are many things that children often play with that may cause danger if they are put into their mouths and accidentally swallowed. Some children swallow pills by mistake. In particular, some adults put the pills within reach of children after taking them. Some pills are wrapped with a layer of sugar, making it easy for children to take them by mistake once they get them. Many children have been in danger of accidentally swallowing pills. Some children will drink disinfectant water, toilet cleaners, etc., some children will play with desiccant, and some parents like to put toxic medicines in mineral water bottles. Children do not know it, and if they accidentally eat it, their lives will be in danger. Some toys can also cause dire consequences if swallowed accidentally. When a 9-year-old girl was playing with magnetic beads, she wanted to taste the magnetic beads, so she swallowed more than 20 beads in a row. She originally thought that the beads would be expelled, but she never thought that the beads would be attracted together due to the magnetic force and become A long list. These beads pierced the colon and small intestine with the gastrointestinal motility, causing abdominal pain. During the gastrointestinal motility process, they were dispersed in various parts of the large intestine and small intestine. It took a full 5-hour operation to remove all 22 magnetic beads. , the surface of some beads has been corroded and turned black! There is also a kind of water-absorbent beads that many children like to play with. They are very small when dry, like jelly beans, but after being soaked in water, they will expand and become larger. Some beads can reach the size of an egg yolk after maximum expansion. Many children like it. Playing with these beads may cause danger if accidentally swallowed and parents become anxious and ask their children to drink a lot of water. For the safety of your baby, all dangerous items at home such as medicines, disinfectant, glass water, laundry detergent, tool boxes, etc. must be put away and placed out of the reach of children. Expired desiccants, medicines, empty pesticide bottles, etc. must be thrown away in time. Do not use mineral water bottles to contain harmful liquids, as this is most likely to cause children to accidentally eat them! Small parts on children\’s toys, remote controls, and various supplies with broken objects must be carefully inspected. If there is a risk of looseness or potential bites, stop them immediately. Do not give foods that are too young to chew, such as nuts,Jelly, gummy candies, chewing gum, hard candies, twists, overly sticky foods such as glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, etc., spiny fish, large pieces of meat, and vegetables with large leaves and thick stems. In the event that a child accidentally swallows a dangerous item, parents must also learn to respond and handle it correctly: First of all, never blindly induce vomiting! If the medicine is accidentally ingested and the baby is unconscious, vomiting must not be forced, otherwise aspiration of vomitus may occur and cause suffocation. If you accidentally eat strong acid or alkaline poisons, do not induce vomiting, otherwise it will cause secondary damage to the digestive tract. When you accidentally eat a strong acid, you can take pure milk, raw egg white, etc. to reduce the damage. When you accidentally eat a strong alkaline, you can drink vinegar, lemon juice, etc. to weaken the alkalinity. Secondly, the child should be sent to the hospital immediately and handed over to a doctor. Let the doctor decide between gastroscopy, surgery, or waiting for stool to pass based on the type of items the child swallowed. Sharp objects, metallic objects, toxic chemicals, and large foreign objects have different handling methods. Therefore, even if the child does not have any symptoms of discomfort, parents should not judge on their own, but should do corresponding inspections. If a child has a foreign object stuck in the throat, the following symptoms will occur: 1. Suddenly begins to wheeze or wheeze. The wheeze is characterized by a high pitch, a musical sound like the trembling of a metal wire, and a long duration. Characteristics such as obvious when exhaling but not obvious when inhaling. 2. The baby suddenly cannot speak, cry or even make sounds. 3. The baby\’s face begins to turn blue, which is a sign of foreign bodies in the trachea and lack of oxygen in the brain. 4. If the baby points or grasps his throat, or waves his arms, with a very panic expression, this may be a sign that a foreign object is stuck in the trachea. At this time, go to the nearest hospital for first aid, and don\’t take chances. At the same time, stay calm, don\’t panic, and try to keep the child as quiet as possible. On the way to the hospital, try to have the child lie on his side with his right side facing down. Because foreign bodies are generally easy to remain in the child\’s right bronchial opening, positioning the right side downward can avoid further harm to the child. If the foreign body that chokes into the trachea is relatively large and completely blocks the trachea, the child may suffocate quickly. At this time, the Heimlich maneuver should be used immediately to save himself: the specific operating principle is to use the impact on the abdomen-soft tissue under the diaphragm to cause a sudden impact. , generating upward pressure, compressing the lower parts of the lungs, thereby driving the remaining air in the lungs to form an airflow. This impactful and directional airflow that drives straight into the trachea can expel foreign matter such as food lumps blocking the trachea and throat, thus saving the person. When using it specifically, you should find corresponding methods according to different situations: For babies under 3 years old, when a foreign body in the trachea occurs, you need to: 1. Pick up the baby and pinch both sides of the baby\’s cheekbones with the thumb and index finger of one hand. , hold the baby, hold the back of his neck with your other hand, let him lie on the rescuer\’s knee, tap the area between the baby\’s shoulder blades with the heel of the other hand, and perform 5 strong strokes in a row Back slap. 2. If the foreign body is not discharged in this way, turn the child over in time, let the child face up, use your forearm to hold the baby\’s head and neck, and use the middle finger or index finger of the other hand to quickly pressApply 5 consecutive violent chest impacts to the sternum at the lower edge of the nipple midpoint. If a baby over 3 years old is in danger, the operation method is: 1. The baby is standing or sitting. The rescuer sits or kneels behind the baby, wraps his hands around the baby\’s waist, and at the same time asks him to bend his head in front of the baby. pour. 2. The rescuer makes a fist with one hand and uses the protrusion of the metacarpal joint of the thumb to press the midline of the baby\’s abdomen 2 cm above the navel. Use the other hand to grasp the fisted hand and quickly pull upward and inward to impact the child\’s abdomen. Through such repeated and rapid pulling and compressing impacts, foreign matter is helped to be discharged from the airway. When using the Heimlich maneuver, please note: 1. If the child has a foreign body in the airway (choked) and is breathing normally, cough hard and do not intervene for the time being. Coughing hard is the most beneficial way to expel foreign bodies in the airway. Before taking any first aid, Before taking any measures, first see if the foreign object can be coughed out by the child by coughing hard on his own. 2. Never pat the back directly, and do not directly pick up foreign objects with your hands, as this will only make the foreign objects fall deeper. 3. Once the child is found to have lost consciousness during the process, call 120 emergency number and place the child in a supine position. First, open the airway, then start artificial respiration for 2 times, and then perform 30 chest compressions, 2 artificial respirations + 30 chest compressions. , in sequence until the child resumes breathing and heartbeat or 120 emergency personnel arrive. 4. For older children or adults, any obtuse-angled object (your own fist, chair back, etc.) can be used to quickly squeeze and impact the abdomen as a self-rescue tool. Children\’s safety is no small matter. If parents are more vigilant and always put their children\’s safety first, they will naturally avoid all kinds of accidents!