What to do if a child has food poisoning? You should know the first aid measures

The first aid measures for children suffering from food poisoning are the same as those for adults. You can induce vomiting, laxatives, and detoxification in time. For safety reasons, you should send your baby to a doctor in time, keep the poisoned food, and pay attention to your baby's diet at ordinary times, and don't feed your baby anything randomly.

1. Induce vomiting

For those who have been poisoned for a short time and have no obvious vomiting, you can first use your fingers, chopsticks, etc. to stimulate the root of the tongue to induce vomiting, or let the poisoned person drink large amounts of warm water and repeatedly induce vomiting on their own to reduce the absorption of toxins. If after inducing vomiting with large amounts of warm water, the vomit has become a relatively clear liquid, you can drink an appropriate amount of milk to protect the gastric mucosa. If bloody liquid is found in the vomit, it indicates possible bleeding in the digestive tract or pharynx, and vomiting should be temporarily stopped.

2. Catharsis

If the patient has eaten the poisonous food for a long time (such as more than two hours) and is in good spirits, laxatives can be used to help the poisonous food be excreted from the body. The purpose of inducing diarrhea can be achieved by decocting rhubarb and senna leaves or taking them with boiling water.

3. Detoxification

If the food poisoning is caused by eating spoiled fish, shrimp, crab, etc., you can take 100 ml of vinegar, add 200 ml of water, dilute it and take it all at once. In addition, you can also use 30 grams of perilla and 10 grams of raw licorice to decoct and take it once. If you accidentally ingest spoiled preservatives or beverages, the best first aid method is to feed them with fresh milk or other protein-containing beverages.

4. Keep food samples

Since identifying the toxic substance is crucial to treatment, after food poisoning occurs, samples of the food that caused the poisoning should be preserved and provided to the hospital for testing. If there are no food samples available, you can also keep the patient's vomit and excrement to facilitate the doctor's diagnosis and treatment.

Of course, this emergency treatment only buys time for treating acute food poisoning. After emergency treatment, the patient should go to the hospital for treatment immediately. Also be sure to keep the food that caused the poisoning so that the doctor can identify the poisonous substance.