Choking occurs when there are objects, food or fluid in the Airways that obstruct air flow in the throat. Complications due to the choke can be life threatening. Before medical help coming, it's good we knowways of helping people choked with quick and precise.
The case of choking often afflicts infants or children because loves toput something in the mouth. While cases of choking in adults usually occurs after inhaling smoke or swallow food or drink in a hurry.
Naturally, foreign objects that are at the entrance of the trachea (the epiglottis) will be pushed to the outside through coughing. When the object is already past the epiglottis, cough also preventing the object down to the trachea. If foreign objects clog the respiratory tract is too large, then the airway can be blocked entirely.
Some of the symptoms experienced by a person who is choking, such as panic attacks or depressed, don't speak entirely with hard tone, coughing repeatedly, unusual breath sounds, revealed that thethroat, watery eyes, or a face flushed. If airway blocked completely, then it could lead to a person can't speak or terbatuk-batuk. Someone is going to try hard to breathe accompanied the face turn pale because of lack of oxygen until it finally collapsed.
How can I Help someone who is Choking?
If only half the obstructed airway, someone can still talk, cry, cough, or breathe heavily. Adults can usually eliminate that barrier objects with the efforts of its own. To help a choking condition lightly, immediately ask him to continue to cough to clear the blockage in the throat. After that, have him spewing objects clog the respiratory tract.
When the choke is visible the more severe, the person may not be able to speak cry, cough or cry. If not assisted soon, then he could loseconsciousness. How to help her is:
Standing behind the sufferer, then hold his chest with one hand andskew the patient's body forward so that objects that obstruct the respiratory tract can come out of your mouth and not makin enter further. Give five blows with the heel of the hand between the shoulder blades of the patient. The heel of the hand is located between the Palm of the hand and wrist. Next, look at the condition of the sufferer, ifforeign objects clog was gone.
If the clog still exists, then please help by way of standing behind a patient choked, put both your arms around the patient's waist is like being hugged him tight with one fist placed above the belly button. Then push the fist up and in. Do with Jolt and repeat this movement up to five times. This technique is called technique Heimlich. On the other hand, there is the risk of a boost in the stomach can cause serious injury so the doctor must examine these patients afterward.
If the patient cannot breathe or unconscious, then to do CPR (resuscitation cardiac and lung) by pressing the chest.
Help with encouragement the hand should not be performed on thebaby, but it could still be done on those body fat or pregnant. It's just that, in people obese or pregnant, a helper should put fists under the sternum/breast. Pull your hand toward the inside and top as will set them.
The form of relief in infants can be done by putting a baby tengkurap over lap with the lower head position. Hold baby with head holding it on both cheeks to make sure the path of your breath. Give five Pats gently but firmly between his shoulder blades. Pause between thePats to verify whether objects clog has been out. Ask other people toimmediately contact an ambulance or preparing to take the patient to the hospital.
Help yourself while choking can be done by trying to remain calm and attracted the attention of people to help. Next, try to cough so thatobjects that can inhibit outward. Don't let people patting my back when our bodies upright because objects that obstruct the throat cancome down to the trachea.
How To Prevent To Prevent Choking
In the case of choking that afflict children, choking can be avoided by:
Remove the small objects in the playing area, such as coins, Eraser, as well as toys that are at risk when ingested.
Food should be cut into small children so it is easier to be swallowed.
Suggest on the child in order not to talk while eating.
We can also prevent yourself not choked with chewing the food perfectly and provide drinking water near us while feeding to help swallow. Avoid talking or laughing while feeding the food to avoid clogging the Airways.
Complications from choking can include irritation of the throat, throat damage even death due to asphyxiation (running out of air). To that end, the procedure helped people who choke important to know everyone.
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