Attacks of suffocation

Thanks to timely provided first aid before the arrival of doctors, a person can save a life. Attacks of suffocation are periodic problems with difficulty breathing, which lead to acute insufficiency in the tissues of oxygen. Signs of suffocation are a change in the color of the skin (cyanosis), embossing in the chest, severe shortness of breath.

The sensation of suffocation can occur in a person suffering from bronchial asthma. To choking, and results in the ingress of foreign objects, vomit, and so on. Small children also sometimes have attacks of suffocation due to increased excitability of the larynx. It can lead to a paroxysmal difficulty in breathing and an inflammatory process in the throat, since laryngeal edema develops with it.

Before you begin to provide first aid in case of suffocation, it is necessary to find out its cause.

In a patient with asthma, attacks of suffocation most often occur at night. He breathes noisily, with wheezing and whistling. Trying to relieve the condition, the patient sits down, while leaning on his hands. A short inhalation and a long exhalation show that sputum and mucus can not leave their bronchi independently - this is bronchial asthma. If the exhalation and inhaling the patient is difficult to do, it is cardiac asthma.

The first help in asthmatic asthma is as follows: to seat a person to ensure free access of oxygen. Then give him an inhaler or a pill of euphyllin and ephedrine. With the ability to make injections, you can make a patient an injection of adrenaline. It is necessary to warm the upper and lower limbs. To do this, you can put the person's feet in a container with hot water or put warmers to your feet and hands. Another option: put on your back (lower paddles), on your sides and chest - mustard plaster.

If the attacks of suffocation began because of the laryngeal edema due to allergies, give the victim an antihistamine drug, calcium gluconate or fifty milliliters of a 10 percent solution of calcium chloride. If this does not help, call an ambulance.

If you get into the larynx of foreign bodies or fluid, there may also be attacks of suffocation. To release the airways from them, it is necessary to squeeze the chest from the victim, and then, if he is conscious, clap vigorously on the back in the area of the shoulder blades. Acting like this, we help the remaining air in the lungs to get out and push out the foreign body that has entered the larynx. If the person is unconscious, put his belly down on his knee and slap on the back, as it is usually recommended to do with drowning. The baby can be taken by the feet and raised up, while simultaneously slapping on the back.

If there is no result, try putting the person on a flat surface, examine his respiratory tract. It is possible that a foreign object is visible and can be pulled out with tweezers or hands. The main thing in the case of foreign bodies entering the larynx is to act calmly and quickly, because procrastination can lead to an irreparable one.

Very often, children who are on an artificial diet, and older children may experience attacks of suffocation, fainting, etc. They can be frightened, coughing, laughing, crying, increased excitability of the larynx and its neuromuscular apparatus, getting the object into the respiratory tract.

Causes of suffocation can be many. The main thing is to have time to give the child first aid before the arrival of doctors. First, be sure to try to calm the baby, because when excited, the child's need for oxygen increases, and the air suffers from suffocation and so is not enough. Secondly, be sure to provide an influx of fresh air (in the warm season you can take the baby to the balcony, the street, in the cold - open the window, balcony door). Third, give the preschooler a warm drink, and put a yellow card on his chest. The breast can be sprinkled on the face with water, pinched, slapped, patted on the back, in a word, to apply all the stimuli to bring the baby to life. Does not help? Use ammonia, artificial respiration, tickle in the nose, pull lightly on the tongue. Attacks of suffocation will take place if the baby gets a long time, with the help of your manipulations, to hold your breath, and then take a full breath. In no case do not refuse to send the incoming doctors to the hospital, because seizures can happen again.