Babies, especially newborn babies, are prone to spitting up, and the most fearful thing about spitting up is that when milk flows backwards from the esophagus to the throat, it accidentally enters the trachea at the moment of inhalation, i.e. choking. The infant’s nervous system is just developing and some reflexes are still weak, they cannot cough up the milk that choked into the respiratory tract. As a result, suffocation often occurs due to mechanical obstruction of the airway by milk. So it is very important for parents to learn how to give first aid for choking. Causes of choking in babies Under normal circumstances, both adults and newborns are able to achieve good coordination between swallowing action and voluntary breathing. The structure of this part of the human body is very delicate, the epiglottis, vocal hatch, protective reflexes and swallowing work in concert, when eating and swallowing, the vocal hatch will automatically close, covering the trachea, so that food only enters the stomach and not the trachea. In terms of human physiology, the esophagus and trachea, only one channel is open at the same time to ensure that no foreign body enters the respiratory tract. The principle of baby choking on milk is very similar to us choking on water. For example, if the milk is mixed with air, when the baby swallows, the milk needs to enter the stomach through the esophagus, but the air has to enter the lungs through the trachea, the vocal cords cannot meet both requirements, there will be a small amount of milk mistakenly into the trachea, thus triggering the baby to choke and cough and spit up milk, choking phenomenon. The mother must learn the first aid technique of baby choking A slight spitting up, the baby will adapt the breathing and swallowing action by itself and will not inhale the trachea, but the mother should continue to observe the baby’s breathing condition and skin color. If your baby is choking, you can handle it as follows: 1. If the degree of choking is not too serious and your baby is vomiting and coughing, but not purple, you should immediately turn your baby’s face to the side so that the spit-up does not flow backward into the throat and trachea, and pat your baby’s back with an empty palm. 2.Wrap a handkerchief or gauze around your finger and reach into the baby’s mouth to quickly clean out the spit-up and overflowing milk to avoid inhaling the milk into the trachea again when inhaling, while using a small cotton swab to clean the nostrils to keep the airway open. 3.When the baby does not breathe or turn purple, it means the spit up may have entered the trachea. You should immediately put the baby prone on the adult’s lap and pat the back four or five times so that it can cough up the milk. 4.If the above methods are still ineffective, immediately clip or pinch to stimulate the soles of the baby’s feet to make the baby cry or cough due to pain, which will help to cough out the milk in the trachea and relieve breathing difficulties. 5.Observe the baby’s cry and face, if the voice becomes faint, inhalation is difficult and the face is purple, send the baby to the hospital immediately. 6, need to be especially reminded that when babies choke, do not hold vertically, because after holding vertically will lead to milk is not easy to be coughed out, but easy to get into deeper parts, resulting in choking and coughing will be more serious. It is more common for small babies to choke on their milk, and for older babies to have foreign bodies stuck in their throats, so how do you deal with it? First Aid for Baby Foreign Body Stuck in Throat When a baby chokes on food, many times it is too late to send it to the hospital. Therefore, parents should learn a little first aid knowledge, immediately do it yourself, you can get the little thing out. Baby foreign body stuck in the throat after the general use of the Heimlich maneuver, the purpose is to repeatedly and quickly pull the pressure shock until the foreign body from the airway out. 1, 0 ~ 3 years old baby: (1) pick up the baby, one hand pinch the baby’s cheekbone on both sides, the other hand to hold the back of the baby’s neck, let it lie on the rescuer’s knee, in the baby’s back pat 1 ~ 5 times. (2) If the foreign body does not come out by the above operation, the baby can be turned over. Rescuer with the middle finger or index finger, placed under the baby’s thorax fast upward heavy pressure. Repeat until the foreign body is discharged. 2, more than 3 years old baby: (1) the baby to take the standing or sitting position, rescuer sitting or kneeling behind the baby, and hands around the baby’s waist, while the baby bent over head forward. (2) the rescuer clenched a fist with one hand, so that the protrusion of the palm joint of the thumb against the baby’s abdomen in the midline 2 cm above the navel. (3) with the other hand to grasp the hand holding the fist, upward and inward rapid pull pressure impact baby abdomen.