What should I pay attention to when setting off fireworks for children and teenagers?

Fireworks is an ancient Chinese cultural custom, carrying the good wishes of people to drive away evil and avoid disasters, used to create a festive atmosphere. But the crackling firecrackers, colorful fireworks bring joy, but also cause pollution, noise, and even physical damage, especially for children and adolescents, once it happens, serious injuries, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, it is necessary to fully understand the hazards of firecrackers, prevent injuries and master the first aid measures after the explosion. First of all, do not allow children to set off large fireworks themselves, their close range explosion injuries often cause serious consequences, there may be eye removal outside the blind, and even cause cranial fracture bleeding and other fatalities. Secondly, when watching from a distance should also be accompanied by parents, pay attention to the surrounding unsafe factors, fire or explosive splashes often occur around the fireworks, children’s curiosity, the awareness of danger is weak, reaction ability is also poor, so the risk of injury is higher. Finally, do not watch too long, a large number of fireworks will also produce a large number of toxic and harmful gases, long inhalation will stimulate the human respiratory tract, causing respiratory discomfort and other aspects of the disease. If the unfortunate occurrence of eye trauma caused by fireworks, first of all, should be calm, the degree of injury caused by firecrackers vary, because parents do not have the expertise and inspection equipment, can not determine the extent of injury, so we must promptly and properly handled and sent to the hospital, do not “unlucky” as a reason for delay, delaying the best time for treatment. For foreign bodies splashed into the conjunctival sac of the eyelid, if there is no wound, the eye should be rinsed repeatedly with plenty of water as soon as possible to avoid further damage; if the skin is injured, bleeding will be more, then to avoid wound infection, apply clean gauze to cover the wound to prevent continued bleeding, but the force should be light, because there may be a wound, to avoid the eye contents under pressure from the wound out, causing irreparable damage. Promptly send the injured person to a nearby hospital with an ophthalmology specialist to ask a doctor to examine and deal with, if conditions do not allow, should be treated at the local hospital after the doctor’s guidance to go to a higher hospital for treatment, do not remove the foreign body in the eye by themselves. Most of the eye trauma caused by fireworks can be prevented. Therefore, parents are especially reminded to strengthen the safety education of their children and the proper storage of dangerous objects to prevent accidents.