If a person is drowning in water or having difficulty in breathing in water, tell others about it before protecting or giving first aid to him and then start to give first aid. One thing should be kept in the mind that you should not give your hand, leg or wrist, etc. to the drowning person to hold because he can also pull you below the water. You should try to keep the drowning person's head, neck, back straight and above the water. You should not try to hold the drowning person in your arms because he is feared.
- Treatment:-
- The patient should be made as lying down on the stomach.
- After that, all the rubbish should be bring out with the help of finger.
- The breathing tube and blood circulation should be checked out.
- After that, the head should be made bend and the chin should be made up.
- The lower jaw of the patient should be stretched forward after open it.
- It makes the tongue up and obstruction of breathing will eliminate.
- Check heart beat of the patient.
- Feel and check out breath from the nose that it is coming or not.
- If breath does not come out, fill your lungs with air by inhale deeply and close the patient's nose, leave the total air in the patient's mouth by putting your mouth on his mouth.
- Yet, the patient breathing not starts then the activity of giving artificial air should be continued.
- After that, yet, if the patient is unable to breath, it is the problems of breathing pipe, so check his pulse.
- If the heart beat or pulse rate is not functioning, hit the heart area with punch and massage this area.
- Continue the activities of giving artificial breath and massaging the heart until doctor came.
- Artificial breath should be given at an interval of every 5-5 seconds to the children above 8 years.
Precaustion:-
- If the drowning person gets hurt in the back or the neck, make him lying down on the stomach by giving support to his head.
- Bend the back part of the patient carefully so that he can breathe easily.
- Now, putt off his wet clothes and give heat to him for warm and cover him with a blanket
