8 Tips on first aid in the faint

Fainting and loss of consciousness may not often occur around you. But suddenly fainting can happen to anyone, and can even happen when you are near the victim.

If you meet someone who suddenly falls unconscious, do not panic! You can do some first aid on them. Perform first person fainting can be very helpful for the victim. ViryaGiri Dr. Shankar shared some tips if you have to help people who passed out around you, as reported by the Health Me Up (17/01) below.

1. Sprinkling water and the smell of garlic is not effective
One way that is often used to wake someone who fainted was splashing water on their faces and give them smells like garlic or onion. Although this method can be used normally, but this kind of method often fails to wake the person who fainted.


2. Sustain their bodies
Fainting is the final stage of a person who loses consciousness. Before the person is actually unconscious, usually body was shaky and she began to lose consciousness little by little. At that time, you should prop the victim's body and place it gently. This prevents a more severe injury to the head or body of the victim if he actually fell while unconscious.

3. Survey area fainting
When you see someone who has been lying unconscious, quickly survey the area around it quickly and do not waste time. It could be that they fainted due to poisonous bites, poison gas, excessive heat, or there are things that harm as electricity is open. Immediately move the victim from the site if it is detected in the vicinity of the danger.

4. Check the victim's response
Extremely [important to see if the victim can respond to you or actually fainting. Try calling her name or ask some questions. You can also patted his shoulder several times. Usually people who passed out there who immediately realized after a while. Settle them if they have already started to respond. Do not wake them directly. Let them lie some time before they checked into the nearest doctor.

5. Telephone assistance and CPR
If the victim is not immediately unconscious, check breathing and heartbeat. If breathing started to disappear and soon weakened telephone assistance and CPR. But only do this step if you are really good at it. If not, immediately call for help or an ambulance.

6. Do not move the victim
If you know of any bone fractures or injuries to the neck and head, do not move the victim. Do not also move the head of the victim because it can lead to more serious injuries. Immediately call for help. But if the head is not injured, you can lift her legs so that blood flow to the heart and brain. This usually makes the victim passed out unconscious, but not always successfully.

7. Do not clustered
It is important to provide fresh air to the victim unconscious. Therefore do not converge on the victim passed out and clustered around it. Loosen the victim's clothing that feels claustrophobic. Do not enter anything in the victim's mouth like water or food as this can make them choke and blocking their airway.

8. Sweet drinks
When the paper has been conscious, give him a sweet drink, eg fruit juices and salty snacks. Usually fainting caused by low blood sugar, less salt, and dehydration. Low blood pressure can also be one of the causes of fainting.

Those are some tips that you can do now to help people who fainted. Be sure to be with the victims and to help calm him come, or until you take him to the doctor. You do not have to be a doctor to save the lives of others. If you know first aid tips, you can also help others when needed.