09.02.2014

Winter is coming. The temperature gradually drops below zero. Thousands of large fluffy flakes fall from the sky, slowly circling, and the children run out to frolic on the street with a noisy squeal. But it is here that danger awaits the children - very curious children tend to check everything and experience it for themselves. So, for example, in winter there is a great temptation to lick the ice, enjoy the snow, or check whether the tongue can really freeze to a pole or any other metal surface.

To reduce the likelihood of such an incident, try to explain to your child in an accessible way why it is impossible to put your tongue to the glands in the cold and grab them with your bare hands. Talk about the dire consequences, but do not exaggerate too much so as not to shock the child.

Well and, what to do if the tongue is frozen to the post? To begin with, do not panic and make sure that your child does not try to tear off the frozen tongue (or lips) by force. Otherwise, delicate skin can be damaged and germs can get into the wound.

What will help if the tongue is frozen to the metal?

First: warm liquid (not boiling water!). It is necessary to pour warm water on the sticking site, and the resulting wound must be shown to the doctor.

Second: frequent breathing at the junction of the tongue and metal. If there are people nearby, you can ask them for help. The more people can be involved, the faster the "prisoner" will be freed from the icy shackles.

Third: a lighter or a large number of matches that need to slowly heat up the metal (the main thing is not to bring the fire close to the tongue / body and do not set fire to the victim's clothing items).

In the worst case, if you find yourself in a wasteland, and there are no settlements nearby and mobile communications do not work, you can use urine.

Licked the handle of a swing or door in the cold, do not panic. This situation is common and frequent. The moisture of the tongue, when touched with cold metal, turns into "ice" and makes the child stand motionless next to an icy object to which his tongue has stuck - a swing, a slide, a doorknob, a pipe, etc. This situation always causes controversy regarding first aid.

There are three ways to release the child sticking tongue to iron:

1. tear off tongue. If the child finds himself in such a situation that there are no adults nearby and there is no one to wait for help, you should not stand in the cold for a long time and shed tears. Explain in advance to a child who likes to play on frosty days outside that if he accidentally finds himself in such a painful situation, you must quickly tear off the stuck tongue from the iron. He can do it himself, without the help of adults.

Of course, mucosa of the tongue in a child will be damaged, but the wound is usually small in such situations and heals within 3-7 days. To avoid infection, rinse your child's tongue with water and lubricate it with an anti-inflammatory ointment. If the bleeding does not stop, moisten a swab with hydrogen peroxide and place it on your tongue. During the time until the mucous membrane of the tongue heals, give the child only grated, non-hot food. If after 7 days there is no positive dynamics in the healing of the tongue or even worse, it began to darken - consult a doctor.

A task parents convey to your son or daughter that while walking on frosty days, you need to make sure that open parts of the body do not freeze - the face, ears and hands. And yet, you can’t take off mittens in the cold and touch iron objects with your tongue - “sticking” is possible.

Children like winter, because at this time of the year you can go sledding, skiing, skating, playing snowballs, making a snowman, and just wallowing in the snow. Prohibitions and moralizing in the case of children who are passionate about the game often do not work. Therefore, so that the child does not stick his tongue to a metal object, it is recommended to conduct such an experiment: go for a walk with the child, take a spoon and a thermos of warm water with you. Then let the spoon freeze in the cold and ask the child to touch it with the tongue. When the clutch occurs, pour the child's tongue with warm water brought in advance. Children remember such experiments for life and try not to repeat them again.

2. Warm up the iron. A more correct and painless solution to rescue a child whose tongue is stuck to a metal object is to warm the iron. This can be done by breathing or warm water. The heat in the breath is enough to help the tongue thaw. Explain to the child that he is already big and how to breathe on a piece of iron so that the tongue thaws. If the baby is still small, then you will have to "breathe" him from a metal object. As soon as the tongue begins to come off, take the baby away from the metal.

release child from "captivity" you can also water the stuck tongue with warm water if you have a thermos with warm water with you or have the patience to wait for someone to take it out of the house at your request. Agree, waiting for such help is unrealistic in a situation where it is cold outside and an upset child is standing still.

3. Get into a warm room faster. If the baby sticks his tongue to the sledge or a metal toy, then the easiest way in this situation is to lift the baby along with the object in his arms and quickly go to the nearest warm room. In this case, you do not need to do anything, but you just need to wait a bit and the tongue will come off by itself. The disadvantage of this method is that with a cold toy on the tongue you can go into a warm room and warm up, but it will not work with a swing or a slide.

Today you can meet on the internet a lot of bad advice on how to help a child if his tongue is stuck to the metal. For example, some advise to urinate on the sticking site or heat the metal with a lighter. Using such methods, you will not only not be able to warm up the right place, but there is also a high probability of injuring the child and scaring the victim even more.

And finally, want to remind parents that the dangers that await while walking on the street are not a reason for a child to stay at home in frosty weather. You need to dress warmly and go outside. Walking in the cold is much more beneficial than in hot summer weather. In winter, the concentration of oxygen in the air is 30% higher compared to the hot air of the summer heat. Therefore, children who often walk outside on frosty days get sick less and sleep better.

For so that the child's body got the most out of winter walks in the cold, adhere to the following rules:
- do not go for a walk if the humidity is too high. You should not expect a beneficial effect from walking in cold, damp weather.
- do not allow the child to walk outside for a long time if the air temperature is -20 ° C or lower.

Hello dear readers of my blog! Today, while walking with one of the twins, we encountered a terrible situation: a child at the age of 7 stuck his tongue to the swing. I, as an adult lady, had to immediately provide first aid to the victim. Instead, I'm petrified. What to do in such a situation?

Since the beginning of 2017, I have been constantly thinking about this problem. However, instead of looking on the Internet, I came up with other topics for writing posts, doing creative work with children, preparing January delicacies, meeting guests, etc. After all, January was created for family holidays. But it was not there.

As I remember now, on January 4, somewhere in the afternoon, meeting my sister with her husband and baby, I slightly stuck my wet hand to a metal door (it happened in a country house). It wasn't hard to peel off. However, it was then that the question arose in my head: what to do if the tongue stuck to the metal in the cold?

I asked myself a question, but there was no answer. Mother laziness played a cruel joke on me. Today, however, I witnessed the "terrible acquaintance" of language with iron. Not for nothing they say thought is material. The moisture of the tongue, when in contact with cold metal, turns into ice - hence the "clutch".

Thank you very much to the man who passed by. We both rushed to the rescue of the frightened boy. I calmed down mentally as best I could, our savior (without him I would not have coped) “unstuck” the tongue from the piece of iron.

Instructions for saving the language

For the first time in my life I am writing an article based on the words of the hero of a children's walk. The Internet slightly corrected the acquired knowledge.

I am a journalist by education and I had to take a lot of interviews and often. However, I did not succeed in doing articles so quickly. This incident happened around 15.00 Moscow time. It took me 30 minutes to write this post.

So let's get down to the detailed operation to save languages:

If this problem touched my children, I would panic. However, this should by no means be allowed. “Calmness, only calmness” - as Carlson bequeathed, a man in the prime of life (every day we read Astred Lindgren with children, so the quotes ask for a blank sheet).

There are enough advisers in our life. However, not all of them are competent in this matter and can cause unnecessary problems with their comments. For example, there are people on the Internet who advise warming up a piece of iron with a lighter. Are you a spectacle? You bring fire to your child's face - a terrible picture, isn't it?

Elderly people can advise the old way: to pee. This is a kind of analogue of warm water. However, for aesthetic reasons, this method can only be applied in extreme cases.

Someone is still advised to tear off the tongue. By principle, it hurts better, but quickly. Only how then to treat the crippled tongue, they do not know. So the choice is yours.

How to treat the victim?

There are cases when the child himself is nevertheless freed from the piece of iron, while causing serious injuries to the tongue. In this case, you must immediately go home. DO NOT apply snow or ice to the tongue, as it can cause an infection.

At home, you need to rinse your mouth with warm water and apply cotton wool with hydrogen peroxide to the tongue (by the way, I recently cured my wisdom tooth with peroxide, but more on that next time). If the bleeding still does not stop, you need to urgently call an ambulance. You can't do without specialists.

During the next week, the child should be fed pureed food and make sure that the food is not hot. If a few days after the incident, the tongue still does not heal and begins to darken - urgently see a doctor.

How to prevent language familiarity with metal?

Children are all different and when you say to someone - NO! - he immediately goes to do it is impossible. Some sites advise to visually show children how the bonding of language and metal occurs.

To do this, they take the spoon out into the cold, then bring it home and ask the child to lick it. After the “coupling”, the child is released from the spoon with the help of warm water and they explain to him that it is impossible to do this on the street with a swing. Would you dare to experiment with your child?

I doubt my 2.4 year old twins will understand this experiment. Today Andryushka was frightened at the sight of a child in an embrace with a piece of iron. Will he remember such an example - the future will show! However, the second twin did not see this, and given his stubbornness and curiosity, everything is still ahead of us.

I told you about this story and it became easier! I hope my post will help someone become a little wiser. I certainly now know how to act in such situations. The main thing is to warm the poor curious child without panic with the help of breathing or warm water.

That's all, my dear listeners! On the one hand, today was a scary, but informative day. I look forward to your comments and reposts. See you soon!

Always yours, Anna Tikhomirova

To lick an iron swing or a bench in the cold - how can anyone come up with such a thing? Maybe if this "someone" is from one to five years old. Although often seven-year-olds light up with the idea to taste the piece of iron. However, this is the case when age, height and weight do not matter - the result is the same: the tongue or lip is completely frozen to the ill-fated piece of iron. The child is in tears, the mother is in a panic. What to do in such a situation?

The main thing to learn is that you do not need to tear the child off the swing by force. After such manipulations, the mucosa is guaranteed to be injured. Blood, pain and prolonged healing cannot be avoided. Therefore, do not act out the scenario of the fairy tale "Turnip", do not pull the child by the head or other parts of the body, but try to calm him down so that he does not inadvertently break out of the iron shackles.

If the child is stuck to a movable object (for example, to a sled), consider yourself very lucky. You just need to take (or carry) the unlucky experimenter into the heat (of course, along with an iron trap). There, the metal will warm up, and the prisoner will be free.

But what if the child is frozen to a swing or a pole? There will be much more trouble here. First, try to thaw the place of "clutch" with your own warm breath. If the child is old enough to understand what is required of him, let him also participate in the process. There is a chance for a happy ending, but if the frost is hard on the street, the plan may not work. In this case, salvation will be in warm water. It is unlikely that you will have a thermos with hot tea at hand. You will have to run for water - if you are walking in the yard, then home, if in another area, then to the nearest store, pavilion or to someone's apartment. It is undesirable to leave a small child alone, ask for help from one of the passers-by. In such situations, people are more responsive than is commonly believed.

So, you got to the source of warm water (you need exactly warm, even slightly hot, but not boiling water!), Now the most optimal thing is to pour it into a plastic bag and tie it up (with the help of an improvised heating pad it will be more convenient to rescue the hostage of your own curiosity - you will not get sick and do not soak clothes). If there is no package, fill the bottle with water, you will have to water the tongue. It will be wet, but it will thaw faster.

It may also happen that the child still twitched and damaged the tongue or lip. Then go home, rinse the injured organ with water and blot with a gauze soaked in hydrogen peroxide. If the bleeding does not stop, make a gauze swab (wrap cotton with a bandage), moisten with diluted hydrogen peroxide and place on the tongue. For several days after the incident, the child should be fed puree-like food (in no case hot!) - until the mucosa is restored. If after three days there is no improvement or the tongue starts to darken, consult a doctor.

To be disrespectful

Attempts to warn the child not to lick the cold swing in many cases only fuel interest. Very often it is after them that you have to arrange a rescue operation. How to discourage the desire to taste iron during a winter walk? In many kindergartens, a visual experiment is conducted for children: a piece of cloth is moistened with water, and then applied to metal in the cold. The fabric freezes instantly. The most desperate parents go further: they take a small metal object (for example, a spoon) with them for a walk, when it cools down properly, offer the child to lick it, and then go home with a stuck spoon to warm up. After such a lesson, boring moralizing is superfluous.

In winter, children are attracted to the street a lot. White and fluffy snow, like crumbly sugar or ice cream. Silvery and iridescent icicles, similar to popsicles. Snowball fights, snowdrifts, downhill skiing, ice skating, snowman making. And, of course, every kid strives to lick a piece of iron on the playground.

The kid can accidentally touch the iron with his tongue or stick his lip to the metal. Or maybe try metal products out of curiosity about what will happen. Especially if the child is regularly and strongly forbidden to lick the swing, horizontal bar, carousel, slide and other similar metal objects that can be found in the yard, on the playground and on the street. Let's find out what to do if the tongue stuck to the gland in the cold.

What Not to Do

Since the tongue is wet, when it comes into contact with a cold metal surface, the moisture freezes and turns into ice. This clutches the crumbs with a cold object. Of course, the baby begins to cry a lot and pull his tongue. The main thing is not to panic. Reassure the child and tell him not to pull the tongue, otherwise it will be even more painful.

In no case do not pull the crumbs by force and do not tear off the tongue from the piece of iron. So you severely damage the mucosa. As a result, the tongue will begin to heal for a long time and is extremely painful. In addition, you can not pour boiling water, otherwise you will get a severe burn!

On the Internet, you can often find advice on how to gently warm a metal object with a lighter. But this is extremely dangerous. You can further injure or simply scare the injured child. In addition, you still will not heat the desired section of the piece of iron.

How to help a child

The safest and most gentle option is to warm with the help of breathing. Such heat is enough for the tongue to thaw in the cold. Place your palms as close as possible to the child's tongue and begin to breathe. As soon as the tongue begins to come off, gently tilt the crumb away from the metal.

If the child sticks his tongue to the iron, warm water will help, but not boiling water! Pour water over the metal surface as close as possible to the sticking point. Alternatively, collect warm water in a plastic bag and apply the bag to the desired area.

Warm water can be taken by running home or to a nearby cafe, supermarket, and so on. However, if you and your baby are only the two of you and there is no one to look after him, you are unlikely to leave the baby alone. Therefore, many recommend taking a thermos with warm water, compote or tea for a walk. By the way, warm tea or compote will help to have a snack or warm up during a long walk or a trip out of town.

If the tongue sticks in the cold to a small metal object that can be carried, such as a ski pole or sled, move the child with the object to a warm room. In warm air, the surface will warm up and fall off by itself. To speed up the process, you can also use warm water or heat the area with a hair dryer.

If the tongue is injured

If the child does tear off the tongue, or you inadvertently detach it, the mucous membrane will be damaged. You do not need to run to the doctor, rinse the tongue or lip with warm water. If blood oozes from the wound, blot with a cotton pad with diluted hydrogen peroxide.

You can use an anti-inflammatory gel for both lips and tongue. And then in about a week the wound will heal completely. If the wound is large, bleeding and has not even begun to heal in the first two or three days, or the tongue has turned black, consult a doctor immediately!

Never apply snow or ice! This further irritates the mucous membrane and increases the risk of infection. The famous doctor Komarovsky advises treating the wound using either Chlorhexidine.

During the healing process, do not give your baby too hot or cold food, spicy or salty food. Products are recommended to be given in crushed form, as chewing will slow down healing.

How to prevent

To prevent such a situation, many parents hold explanatory conversations and forbid the child to lick something in the cold. However, prohibitions will not help here, but will only provoke the baby, and he will want to taste the metal object out of curiosity. In addition, it may stick to the piece of iron by accident.

Some parents are even ready to experiment, take the child outside and give something cold or icy metal. And they ask the baby to lick to see the result. Of course, this is the last resort.

Older children can be told how dirty these products are. Tell and show how many harmful bacteria, germs and worms are on a metal surface. Look for pictures on the internet to be sure. Say that if the baby tries to lick a piece of iron, then all the bacteria will be on his tongue, and then in his stomach.