First aid for domestic and everyday hazards

I think living is risking not only dying but also many hazards in our immediate environment.

This is why every human being must never be ignorant about first aid; you could save a life of your beloved family, friends, strangers and it is a good feeling.

In this article, I want to explore and expound the various hazards in our homes and our surroundings and how you can help salvage a life before the doctors lay their hands on them.

I have seen many parents loosing their children in the care of a house help who due to her ignorance, allowed them to die or get permanent disability out of a minor hazard.

The various hazards I will concentrate on includes: electrocution, gunshots wounds, scalds and burns, fainting, poisons and snake bites.

Let’s start with your sensitivity and assertiveness to hazards

Most of us modern parents are busy with careers, businesses that we are never home to be with our children and take care of our homes.

We may be assertive and sensitive to possible hazards that may come up and make our children susceptible but do our domestic workers know this?

The other day my neighbor hired a house help to help her with her two small babies as she resumed work.

I do not think she enquired more about her whereabouts and if she does have a medical problem.

During the very second day in work, she just got a seizure and fell down with a thunder; she was biting her tongue and a gush of foam flowing from her mouth.

As she was to learn later, this young woman is epileptic and therefore not fit for a nanny job.

As you hire a house keeper, make sure that he or she is in good health, is conversant with first aid in case of abrupt hazards, and then show them around.

Poisons

Both adults and children have been perfect victims of poisons. A child may pick carelessly kept drugs, chemicals, sprays, paints and swallow them without the nannies knowledge.

Adults who are tired of living have take poison intentionally. Moreover, your enemy may want to assassinate you and poison becomes a perfect method. Incase this happens in your presence, do this to determine.

If swallowed, you could check his mouth for traces of the poison he could have taken or the chemical corrosion on his or her lips.

Carry samples of the vomit to the doctor if there is, but all in all, the very first thing to find out is if the casualty is conscious or not.

You could give them some water or milk to ease or reduce swelling for corrosive chemical but never induce vomiting.

Snake bites

If you live on the countryside like in the farms, then you know that it is possible to share part of your surroundings with crawling living things like snakes.

While some snakes are non-poisonous, others are definitely what you should avoid like plague.

You can not be with your child all the times, not even his or her caretaker, at times they will run after their balls to the long grass or bushes, and there lies a snake bite hazard.

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