What should I do if my child eats cosmetics?

Parents in families with children must be more careful in life. Women nowadays use a lot of cosmetics, which contain some chemical ingredients. Children are completely ignorant and will put anything they get into their mouths. Therefore, it is best not to let children come into contact with cosmetics. If children eat cosmetics, it will be very harmful. If you find that your child has eaten cosmetics, you must take the following solutions in time.

What should I do if my child eats cosmetics?

When babies are young, they are curious about everything. When he sees something new, his first reaction is usually to pick it up, and then he will most likely put it in his mouth. Especially babies who have just grown teeth always like to use their teeth to explore the world, and they habitually put whatever they catch into their mouths. Many times, children will accidentally ingest cosmetics when parents are not around. So what should we do if children accidentally ingest cosmetics? Let’s learn some tips on accidental injury safety for children.

1. Once a child is found to have taken medicine by mistake, the correct principle of handling is to quickly excrete it, reduce absorption, detoxify in time, and provide symptomatic treatment. Find out the name of the medicine the child has taken, the time of taking the medicine, and the dose that was accidentally ingested. Immediately induce vomiting to make the child vomit out the medicine that has not been digested and absorbed in the stomach, and then perform gastric lavage.

2. Drink more water. Give your baby more water to promote the excretion of cosmetics. If the baby does not have symptoms such as vomiting, then the impact should not be significant. Just pay attention to it in the future.

3. If a large amount is accidentally ingested, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment immediately. Do not panic and induce vomiting during the process. The more you vomit, the less danger there will be.

If your baby accidentally eats cosmetics, he may have a poisoning reaction, causing uncomfortable symptoms such as dizziness and headache. It may also cause gastrointestinal reactions, causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and diarrhea. First of all, you must drink more water to promote excretion. At the same time, you can also drink some honey water and boil some licorice and Ganoderma lucidum in water to detoxify. If the condition is serious, you need to go to the hospital for gastric lavage treatment.

A one-year-old child has accidentally ingested chemicals. It is not a big deal if it is a small amount, but you should be careful in the future and not let your child take these things. Children of this age like to put things in their mouths. Let your child drink more water and milk and observe. If there is no diarrhea or other symptoms, it is not a big deal.