How to Handle Children’s Trauma

June 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Little children dressed with less clothes in summer, and with most of their skin exposed. As we know the children's skin is very delicate, which is very vulnerable to all kinds of skin trauma, such as the skin injury after falling over, cuts by sharp tools or glass, sprains and so on.
So, it is a important thing that the parents how to handle the wounds when children affected by trauma correctly?
1. Cuts. The first step is stop the bleeding when children with small and shallow wound. Put the cuts part high up and hold up the finger root so that stop the bleeding. Most of the wound is easy to clean, you can use iodine, alcohol coating the skin around the wound, then bandaged with a clean dressing.
If there have no signs of infection for the wound, then disinfect the wound with an alcohol cotton ball as a couple of days. But if children was cutted by dirty or rusty sharp, or the wound is large and deep, it may be easy to catch a tetanus infection. For this condition, you should bring the child to the hospital promptly.
2. Sprain. It mostly occurs in the wrist, ankle and other parts, and the sprain often with a symptom of swelling and pain, skin bruising, local tenderness Obviously, and the injured joint can not rotate. You should stop children from movement with the injuried joint, especially ankle sprains. And should booter the calf of children.
Early treatment should apply a cold compress, the with a hot compress. It is usual to massage the affected area after l ~ 2 days in order to promote blood circulation and speed up the swelling subsided. In addition, after the occurrence of a sprained ligament in mind whether the laceration. If you find the child has a signs of fracture or dislocation, such as pain, or the affected limb can not move. You should bring the child to the hospital with a treatment in time.
3. If the children with a trauma, you can handle this according to the bleeding site, amount of the bleeding. If the blood out very slowly and small, you can cover the trauma with clean towel or sterile gauze, and then bandage the wound tightly. And raise the bleeding area, this can stop the bleeding.
When the wound blood out quickly, and with a very large amount of bleeding, the implementation of interim emergency is to immediately press fingering, that means press the injured blood vessels near to the bone with your finger quickly. The compression point is generally near the end away from the heart.

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