Lynda Cray: My name is Lynda Cray. I am set to training officer for the Romford area with the London Ambulance Service. I'm also a paramedic and I've been with the London Ambulance Service for 20 years and I'm also a mom.
Gosia Campbell: Now, he is getting to the age now that he is crawling and putting himself up and trying to walk, and basically keeps falling down or bumping his head. How would I know when it's very dangerous?
Lynda Cray: He has had an accident, and obviously you're going to panic, and if you control yourself that make the child behave better if you like. With bumps and bangs to the head, it tends to create a lot of panic and fear in the parents which transmits itself to the child and again, you need to keep calm. We need to practically put something cold onto a bump, we are talking about no bleeding as whole. Put something cold, so you could take a bag of frozen peas from the fridge, wrap it in a tatter, not straight onto the bump, wrap it in the tatter, put it onto the bump which will reduce the swelling.
Obviously children are banging and bumping all the times, which is quite normal. But, if you're too concerned about it, what you need to do is see if the child is behaving abnormally at all. The things we need to look at for are if they lose consciousness, obviously that's a very big concern.
If the child goes unconscious as a result of head injury, you need to take him to the hospital. If the child is very sleepy, when he is not normally sleepy, as he can come with same, is very irascible. But remember, if you are very panicky, the child will behave abnormally. Now, so achieving that moment, is a quite hard -- but if he became very irascible after a bump then you should start doing a little bit concern, anything like that which is abnormal behavior, then we need to consider again further advice.
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