Illness prevention and emergencies

Scenario one, Darius was playing with the blocks like he normally does at school, during playtime. All the children were doing different things. But Darius always like to play with the blocks. He had a bad habit of putting the blocks in his mouth and because of that, he was not allowed to play with them this week. The teacher moved Darius to another center, across from the block center, hoping that this would help Darius become interested in something else and he did. He was now playing in the art center and discovered he loved to build things with clay. His teacher was satisfied because Darius was happy. But it was not long before Darius begin putting clay in his mouth too. On this day, the teacher and her assistant was watching to make sure everyone was okay when she noticed Darius lips were blue and he was looking funny. She immediately reacted calmly and walked over to Darius. She had the assistant watch the other children while she begin trying to see what was wrong with Darius. She checked him from head to toe and saw that he was choking on clay because she saw the teeth marks in the clay roll on the table. She told her assistant to call 911, while she began trying to get the clay out of Darius’s throat. After that, she had her call his parents too. His teacher continued the Heimlich maneuver until the ambulance arrived. They help the teacher get the clay out of Darius’s mouth. Then he threw up and began to cry because he was scared from not being able to breathe. His teacher assured him he would be okay and comforted him until his mother got there. The paramedics treated Darius and release him to his mother, who had arrived at the school by the time Darius was okay. Once this emergency was over, Darius’s teacher filled out a incident report as to what happened.
Because Darius’s teacher had training and knowledge about choking, she knew the signs and knew what to do fast. She had meetings with her paraprofessional all the time just in case they needed to respond to any situation with the children. Advance playing will help a person to be better prepared for a bad situation. They will know what to do in order and how to do it to save someone’s life. Everyone needs proper training when working with children in case of an emergency situation.
For adults to be prepared they should have files with parents contact information updated, first aid kits available, phones or radios to call for help, and most of all proper training. No one is ever prepared for emergency, but they can know the NAEYC recommended responses to follow.
My next scenarios is Ryan and he has just can in from out side with his mother, after going for a walk in the park, across the street. Five year old Ryan and his mother Jill was taking a walk in the neighborhood. The sun was bright and hot and they had stopped for ice cream. Ryan ate his ice cream as they walked back home. He finished his ice cream and began to play and run around while his mom watched. She saw that Ryan looked pale, but she thought it was because of the hot weather, so she hurried and got Ryan inside so he could cool off. She washed his face to help cool him off. They sat down and begin watching television. Jill noticed Ryan was very still and did not respond when she called him. Ryan appeared to be asleep, but Jill noticed that he was not breathing. She went over and shook Ryan, but he did not move. Jill dialed 911 and began performing CPR on Ryan because he was not breathing. She had noticed his pale look earlier and thought nothing of it, except that Ryan may have been tired. She examined his body while she was doing mouth to mouth on her son. He was already lying down and she continued to do CPR until the paramedics arrived. Ryan responded and started to cough and cry, not knowing what had just happen to him. He wanted his mother and Jill was there for him. Jill explained to the paramedics what happen before Ryan stop breathing and that this was his first time doing this. They took Ryan to the hospital for observations to make sure everything was alright.
Jill had took a CPR before this happened, because she knew that she needed to know this if her child or someone she knew every stop breathing, she could help them. She knew how important it was to be prepared for an emergency situation and she was. She wanted to know more about emergency situations and got training for them. To know what to do in emergency situations, one should gain knowledge and educate themselves.
If a person has a family member or friend that has a illness, make sure you are aware of how to help them if they had a reaction, or an emergency problem, so you could help them.