Did the baby come when bathing water?Beware of secondary tappets<

The American media recently had two stories that shook especially parents of younger children.In the first of them, parents lost their four -year -old son Frankie Delgad as a result of a total rare secondary toning.After his death, they contacted the media asking for an increase in awareness of secondary toning and its danger.

It was thanks to the information in the media that in another case the parents of the two -year -old American boy Gia Vega attacked him to take him to the hospital in the event of a bathing, which saved his life.

Beware of coughing and shortness of breath after inhaling water

“Secondary toning is a state where a person after a short toning and pulling out of the water comes to consciousness, without significant trouble.However, if there has been a growing amount of water, there is a risk of developing lung edema and subsequent 'toning' dry, ”explains Jan Sedláček from the water rescue service.

Secondary tappets may occur with a minimum of minutes, up to hours.If the affected person is not provided in time, there may be a failure of circulation and in the worst case to death.As in the above -mentioned cases where neither of the children was a swimmer.Thus, the water was inhaled directly during the toning, but during their romp in the pool.They were nothing right after bathing, but in a few hours the boys had already complained of headache, got a fever and coughed.

"As a rule, after being pulled out of the water, the affected person is coughing up, there is also a relative feeling that there are no problems, but after some time, depending on the amount of water in the lungs, shortness of breath occurs until breathing" bubbling ", cyanosis may also occur (mucosal promotion), disorientation to loss of consciousness, but this is already a state where the developed pulmonary edema must be urgently solved, ”says Jan Sedláček.

What to do when I see the drowning?

The water rescue also encourages that if you witness the tappets, always call the help first and then very thoroughly consider whether you are sufficiently proficient swimmer, whether they can tear you up eg.Strong currents and definitely take to help a floating tool.According to the experience of water rescuers, even a small child can drown an adult.Once the drowning outdoors is out of the water, resuscitation should be initiated immediately.

“In the case of timely rescue and properly performed breathing, there is often no circulation arrest and the forecasts are significantly better.Resuscitation in children and toning are carried out without delay after finding that they do not breathe (not lift their chest) after the airways (head tilt, chin lifting) by five introductory inhales.We do not pour the water from the affected person, from the upper respiratory tract has been manipulated by the affected person and we will not get it from the lungs in lay help, ”says Sedláček.

According to him, first aid should be managed ideally by everyone, parenting is certainly a sufficient reason to enroll in the course.According to him, the basics of first aid and resuscitation is advisable to instill children since childhood.

And further reminds that every drowning should then head to the hospital for observation even if it may seem okay.

Of course, the best prevention of secondary toning is the prevention of primary tappets, ie self -rescue teaching and subsequently methodical swimming teaching.It is recommended to leave Sedláček to the specialists in proven swimming clubs.

Pre -swimming skills, such as merging or how to get out of the water as shore when falling in clothes, then you can start training with the child right on another hot day spent by the water.