Here we are explaining the importance of teaching First Aid skills to young people.
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Research has shown that young people have not fully developed the part of their brain associated with risk evaluation until their 20s. This means that there is a huge group of risk takers who need to be equipped with the knowledge to help themselves and each other if involved in a medical emergency.
A survey…
Road Traffic accidents – how to help!
On the 11th November there will be a National Road Safety Seminar and the Government has launched an excellent websitewww.think.direct.gov.uk designed for children and teenagers to make them more aware of the dangers on the road.
In most of the EU Countries people learn First Aid as part of their driving test – this does not happen in the UK. Accidents…
At London Mums we are very passionate about first aid training. We have partnered with St John Ambulance to offer you the chance to win this great Travel First Aid Kit which is ideal for storing in your vehicle’s glove box and contains the first aid essentials to help treat common travel injuries.
The Travel First Aid Kit also contains a first aid guide, providing information and advice on…
All allergic reactions occur because the body’s immune system reacts inappropriately in response to the presence of a substance that it wrongly perceives as a threat. The body doesn’t react to the irritant directly, but reacts to the histamine produced by the body to fight the irritant.
Acute Allergic Reaction – how to help
Useful links – The Anaphylaxis Campaign…
One of the most frequent concerns is what to do if someone is choking. Choking is frightening, but rarely fatal.
How to help a Choking adult
·       Always check first to see if someone is able to cough and encourage them to do so as often they are able to clear the blockage themselves.
·       If they are coughing, let them cough.
·       If they are not coughing…
Asthma is a common condition in which their airways go into spasm and cause tightness of the chest and severe difficulty breathing when someone is exposed to something that irritates their airways.
The airways become narrow and the lining of the airways become inflamed, start to swell and can also start producing sticky mucus or phlegm which makes it even harder to breath.
What causes asthma
If…
Would you know what to do if your child was unconscious or stopped breathing?
. Here are some useful advice on CPR.
Please watch my training video to show you clearly what to do.
Danger
First check it is safe and that there is nothing that has injured them and could be a danger for you.
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Speak to them to see if they respond, if not pinch them hard on their ears.
If you get a…
People are often confused and scared about when to move someone and when to keep them still, this is particularly important when there is a serious risk of them having a spinal injury.
Spinal Injuries
You should suspect a spinal injury if:
They have fallen from more than twice their height, or been pushed with force
something heavy has fallen onto them,
they have been involved in a road…
A staggering 25,000 under-5s are rushed to A&E each year in the UK with suspected accidental poisoning. One in five of these cases (that’s around 15 every day) will be serious enough for the child to be admitted to hospital for further observation and/or treatment.
Poisoning
Every day, 15 young children are admitted into hospital because it’s thought they’ve swallowed something poisonous.
A…
Here is a great article by our guest blogger and first aid trainer Emma Hammett on the importance of first aid.
I first truly appreciated the importance of First Aid Training when I was working in the Burns Unit at Queen Mary’s Roehampton. I was looking after a little boy undergoing desperately painful skin graft treatment for his burns. His Mum had panicked when she spilt hot coffee on him…