According to Jiangsu Public News Channel "News 360": Summer vacation is coming, Jiangsu Disease Control and Prevention issued an important reminder that drowning accidents among teenagers and children will enter a period of high incidence, and parents should take good care of them. When encountering a drowning accident, rescue should be carried out scientifically.
[Both basins, bathtubs and inflatable swimming pools may become "invisible killers"]
Disease control experts remind that drowning not only occurs in outdoor places such as ponds, reservoirs, rivers and lakes, but also in swimming pools and washbasins, bathtubs and pools at home. The "invisible killer" of drowning.
Lin Ping, chief physician of the Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Center of the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that children may drown in 3 to 5 centimeters of water, so there should be no water at home. Second, if there are wells or buckets at home, they should be covered so that children cannot open the lids, which is safer; third, if there are landscape pools or small ponds at home, they must be fenced.
[Children cannot call for help when they are drowning. Be wary of these drowning reactions]
Some parents have misunderstandings and believe that their children will flop and scream when they are drowning, but this is not the case.
Lin Ping said that when adults drown, they may shout, cry for help or flop due to conditioned reflexes. However, children's abilities have not yet been fully developed. They are nervous and have stiff muscles. Many children cannot call for help. Therefore, when you see a child in a still state, he is actually drowning.
Therefore, when the child's head is tilted below the water surface, the mouth floats up and down on the water; the mouth is open and the head is tilted back; the eyes are empty and unable to focus or the eyes are closed; the hair covers the face, forehead or eyes; there is no treading water movement, the body Standing upright in the water; shortness of breath or convulsions, etc., indicate that you are probably drowning and should be rescued in time.
[Children should not go into the water alone to save others and do not hold hands to rescue]
In outdoor deep and dangerous places, if a partner is drowning, children must not rush into the water to save others alone, nor should they hold hands to rescue. Call loudly and ask for help from an adult as soon as possible, and ask others to help you dial 120. When adults are rescuing, they should try their best to use ropes and life-saving facilities for shore rescue, and use multiple people to rescue together. If the environment is dangerous, you can call 119 for help.
Lin Ping said that if you discover drowning within 30 seconds and rescue him within 4 minutes, the prognosis may be better for children. For example, if there is no breathing or heartbeat, cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be performed. The simplest one is 30:2, which means 30 heart compressions and two blows. Children may have inhaled contaminated water or dirty things during drowning. They must go to the hospital after rescuing them.
Disease control experts also remind that children should also learn self-rescue skills when drowning. If they accidentally fall into the water, they should stay calm, tilt their heads back, let their mouth and nose appear above the water, and adopt a backstroke posture; take a deep breath and exhale shallowly. , stay buoyant and wait for rescue.
Jiangsu TV reporter/Fan Sicheng Xie Yu editor/Hu Chao
