The baby accidentally ate tobacco

If there are children at home, you must ensure that there are no small objects on the floor or in places where children can touch, because many small objects will make children think they are delicious and put them in their mouths. If parents cannot see, the objects will be swallowed. Tobacco cannot be used. If a child accidentally eats it, it is considered as inhaling a foreign object, and protective measures need to be taken through these methods.

Foreign body inhalation, that is, foreign bodies in the airway, is a common and dangerous accident that can often cause varying degrees of breathing difficulties or even death.

According to statistics, the disease is more common in children under 7 years old, especially in infants between the ages of two and just learning to walk, with a high mortality rate. When a child talks, cries, laughs, or engages in intense activity with something in his mouth, it is easy for the mouthed object to be inhaled into the trachea, causing tracheal obstruction and leading to suffocation. In addition, children are very curious and will put anything they can get their hands on into their mouths.

When such an accident occurs, it is crucial to take certain first aid measures in time, and the patient may be saved in just a few minutes.

Understand the location of the esophagus and trachea and the causes of tracheal ingestion

There is a cover in front of the trachea called the epiglottis, which closes the airway when swallowing, and food enters the stomach from the esophagus. However, the epiglottis of infants and young children is underdeveloped. When they eat, the cover of the epiglottis is not closed tightly, or when they breathe, food falls from the opening of the trachea into their main bronchus, blocking the trachea. The person cannot breathe and his life is in danger. In this case, we must give him immediate rescue.

Common symptoms of foreign body aspiration in infants

When we find that an infant or young child has the following symptoms, such as: silent crying, cyanosis around the mouth and face, twitching of the limbs but no sound, when you find this situation, you should think about whether he may have airway foreign body suffocation. In daily life, we should pay attention to our food, medicine, and even some small toys. Do not let infants and young children play with them casually, especially when eating, to prevent choking and coughing, and to prevent airway foreign body suffocation.

Lifting the baby using the "sandwich" technique

First, we pick up the child. We must be careful when doing so, because infants and young children have larger heads and shorter necks. If we pick him up, it will cause damage to the cervical spine. We're going to pick him up in the sandwich position, like I did, one hand grabbing the cheekbone, the other hand going in from the back, and then using both hands, both arms' hands and arms to hold the baby up, and then tip his head down so his mouth is down too.