What to do with large and small burns?
In young children burns from hot liquids are the most common cause of accidents. Burn injuries in adolescents and adults it is the result rather from the improper handling of fire and flammable liquids or electrical accidents. If a larger area of skin affected, the paramedics had to be called in addition to the application of emergency measures. If a larger area of skin affected, the paramedics had to be called in addition to the application of emergency measures. The first degree burns it is sunburn, the skin is red and painful, but recovers completely. Second-degree burns are recognizable by forming of blisters and severe pain. For third and fourth degree burns, the pain is missing because the nerve endings are destroyed in the skin and underlying tissues. What degree combustion you has, can often be seen after a...
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Poisoning in the home – what to do?
Especially in young children are often accidents with toxic substances. Although budget well hidden, exiled poisonous plants from the home and bottled potable liquids are actually kept that childlike curiosity is often hard to stop. Does your child swallowed detergents, drugs or poisonous plant parts , how fast and prudent action is needed? Measures depending on the nature of the poison can be useful in a case and to be dangerous in other. The typical symptoms of many poisoning are severe abdominal pain, spontaneous vomiting, dizziness and poor circulation. If you suspect a poisoning, alert the relevant poison centers on how to proceed. Threatening circulatory shock immediately the emergency you need to alert or go to a clinic. Vomit and existing packaging of the swallowed substance to help in the selection of the antidote. Make a note of the...
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Be prepared for everyday symptoms in young children in the household
Usually it’s the little aches and pains that happen when playing at home and in the garden or on the road, for which one must be prepared with small children.But even with respiratory or gastrointestinal infections can be helpful a special children’s medicine cabinet with corresponding doses of medication. A small stumbling block or a moment of inattention is usually sufficient and even the knee is scraped up. Nice if then a plaster on hand is to treat the wound. Especially for young children such minor injuries are not uncommon. From small bruises to lacerations thorns in the feet, on such accidents, you should always be prepared with a well-equipped first aid kit. This is especially important, to keep calm and comforted, because usually the injuries are rather harmless in nature and can be treated with plaster, tweezers and...
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Asthma, and often underestimated suffering
In US, nearly eight million people with asthma, a live mostly long-lasting disease of the airways affected. Here, asthma can almost always be stabilized by specific treatment measures and control by appropriate means itself is the motto of this year’s World Asthma Day on 05/07/2015. It is estimated that 235 million worldwide suffer adults and children from bronchial asthma is rising. And although this number is not one hundred percent due to different diagnostic procedures and counting methods, but it is certain that asthma is an often underestimated disease that occurs mainly in the Western industrialized countries. So suffers in Georgia not even one percent of the population in bronchial asthma, while in the UK are affected more than ten percent of adults. And in US almost five percent of adults and nearly one in ten children are now...
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