Is Your Family Prepared for an Emergency?
Mum Zone’s resident First Aid for Babies and Kids Expert - Michelle Fiddian of Little Aid - can answer your questions about all basic first aid areas, for example:
- DRABCD principals
- CPR
- Choking
- Drowning (including "dry drowning")
- Legalities surrounding applying first aid to a child
- Hazards and prevention (safety etc.)
- Burns/scalds
- Fevers
- Seizures (especially important for all parents to know about febrile convulsions!)
- Poisons
- Bleeding, amputations, embedded objects, internal bleeding, etc
- Head injuries
- Childhood illnesses, eg chicken pox, meningococcal, etc.
- Anaphylaxis
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Breaks, sprains, spinal injuries etc.
- Shock
- First aid kits
- Australian bites and stings (bees, snakes, spiders, marine creatures)
- Heat/cold exposure
- Strokes (more common with adults)
- Heart attacks (more common with adults)
Then there’s other relevant issues such as:
- Calling an ambulance (there’s several things here such as clearing up confusion when to call, questions involved, landline vs mobile, what happens when you get to hospital etc.)
- Use of phones during an emergency
- Keeping yourself safe during an emergency
- How to stay calm during an emergency - especially when it involves your child or baby
- Highlighting the fact that no matter how safe a parent is, "stuff happens" sometimes (they’re called accidents!) and all the difference can simply be a matter of staying calm and knowing what to do.
- Etc, etc, etc.
View Michelle’s Responses to Readers’ Questions
Our resident First Aid for Babies and Kids Expert Michelle Fiddian of Little Aid is available to answer your questions.
View Mum Zone Readers’ Questions and Michelle’s Responses.
Example Reader’s Question for Michelle
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How Does it Work?
Using the form below,
post your question to our resident First Aid for Babies and Kids Expert Michelle Fiddian and she will endeavour to answer you as
soon as she can. Depending on the time she has available, Michelle will
answer a selection of readers questions then post her answers for everyone’s benefit.
Submit a Question for Michelle