The 13-month-old girl was fed peanuts by her relatives and choked on the air intake pipe. She nearly died of emphysema a week later. It's really sad to see such news, but for parents, it's important to pay attention to it when feeding children.
Melon seeds, peanuts, pistachios and other nuts are regular snacks in many families. Some parents like to feed their children a few when they eat them. However, this kind of unintentional action can cause very serious consequences; because the epiglottic cartilage of children is immature and has poor function, especially when children are talking, crying and laughing, and playing with nuts, it is easy to mistakenly inhale the respiratory tract and cause airway obstruction or even suffocation.
When children ingest nuts by mistake, they will have these manifestations: if nuts enter the trachea through the glottis, they will have severe choking and coughing, some of them will have short-term suffocation and face blue and purple, they may have hoarseness and dyspnea, and in severe cases, they will have secondary inflammation, which may aggravate the blockage of trachea and bronchus, cough, atelectasis and emphysema, and the temperature of children will rise.
After children choke nuts by mistake, parents should take the following correct measures for emergency treatment:
--For the larger children who can cooperate, the impact operation method can be adopted: the parents stand behind the children, with their arms around the waist of the patients, and let the children bend down and head forward. The parents hold the hollow fist in one hand, and the fist eye is against the two transverse fingers on the middle navel of the children's abdomen, and the other hand tightly holds the fist, and the children are required to rapidly impact inward and upward for 5 times. At the same time, the children are required to cooperate with the bow and open mouth, so that the foreign matters can be discharged.
--For younger children, the method of handstand clapping back can be used: lift the children's legs upside down to make their heads droop, and pat the back gently at the same time, so that the foreign body can be forced to cough out through the gravity of the foreign body itself and the impulse of the gas in the chest when coughing. If the symptoms can not be relieved after several rounds of repeated first aid, call the emergency number in time and send to the doctor for treatment.
In order to prevent children from choking and coughing by nuts, we suggest that parents should teach children to keep a correct sitting position and good chewing and swallowing habits when eating, and not eat or sleep with food when lying down, running, joking or fighting; for children under 3 years old, try not to let them contact small granular food or items such as sugar beans, peanuts, melon seeds, marbles, buttons, etc.