ASPHYXIA in children

   ASPHYXIA in children - lack or irregular breathing of the child immediately after birth. Arises from the pathological course of pregnancy and childbirth. Asphyxia and birth trauma contributes to hemorrhage in the newborn's brain .
    Signs . Healthy newborn pink , shout loudly , actively moving arms and legs . And children born asphyxiated , not breathing , limp, blue ones and even white when severe asphyxia .
   Assistance . First of all, you must release the airway ( mouth and nose ) and the newborn from mucus membranes, suck their rubber spray or clean your mouth with your finger wrapped with a bandage , gauze or handkerchief. After these manipulations often breathing is restored. You can apply the methods of reflex stimulation of respiratory function by a slap on the soles of the child, intense strokes along the spine , chest child sprinkle cold water. If this is not enough , you need mechanical ventilation by the " mouth to mouth " 2 - 4 layers of gauze or bandage and external cardiac massage .    After first aid is necessary as quickly as possible to deliver a newborn with parturients to the nearest hospital .
   ASPHYXIA ( shortness of breath , asthma ) in children can be due to various reasons . Neonates - from congestion in the airways of mucus , underdevelopment of the respiratory center , compression of the umbilical cord during birth or from compression of her airway . In older children - from spasm of the larynx, severe inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, inhalation of a foreign body , tumor development , which compresses the trachea , from drowning and many other reasons. Some children from 6 months to two years due to a muscle spasm of the larynx spazmofiliey .    Asphyxia appears severely disturbed respiratory, circulatory, nervous system functions .

removal of foreign body
  from the respiratory tract baby

   Assistance . Provide fresh air to the victim or a sick child , to release the gate, not to obstruct breathing , suck from the upper respiratory tract mucus rubber bulb . If you notice during feeding or child's anxiety that he turned blue , then came anchone . You should try to quickly cause a child breath, sprinkling the body with cold water , shuffled his buttocks or the end of a spoon to irritate the back of the throat until you cough shock or the first breath . If it is known that a nursing baby got into the trachea foreign body - pea , ball or other round object - it should firmly grasp the feet , lower upside down and gently tap the back to trigger cough reflex and push as a foreign body , and then immediately call a physician . Adult child can be placed on the leg bent at the knee and knock on the back.