First Aid Management 3

Insects Bite and Stings:

•  Attempts to remove stinger.
• Cover area with paste of baking soda, calamine lotion may be helpful later to reduce itching.
• If patient faints, collapses or if body swells call  physician immediately.

Artificial Respiration (Resuscitation):

     The "exhaled air" (Mouth to mouth, or mouth to nose) method of artificial respiration is strongly recommended and should be learned by everyone. 

• Lay patient on his back.
• Tilt the head and chin away from the chest to clear airway.
• Making sure that the tongue or foreign matter does not obstruct it.
• Open your mouth and take a deep breath.
• Pinch the patient's nostrils together
• And then seal your lips around mouth.
• Blow into his lungs until the chest rises.
• Then remove your mouth and watch the chest deflate.
• Repeat, giving the first four inflations as rapidly as possible.
• Lung inflation can also be carried out through the nose. 
• The casualty's mouth should be sealed with the thumb holding the lower jaw.

Heart Attacks:

    The American Heart association says that these are the usual warnings of heart attack, although symptoms vary 

• Prolonged, oppressive pain or unusual discomfort in the center of the chest, behind the chest bone. Pain may radiate to shoulder, arm, neck or jaw.
• The pain or discomfort is often accompanied by sweating, nausea, vomiting and shortness of breath may also occur.
• Sometime these symptoms subside and then return.

Minutes count when heart attack strikes. ACT PROMPTLY. Call a doctor and carefully describe the symptoms, if no doctor is immediately available, shift the patient to a hospital emergency at once.