How to give first aid to gastric bleeding

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Gastric bleeding will have hematemesis and melena symptoms, characterized by easy onset, need to take timely and effective measures for first aid. Let's take a look at the emergency treatment of gastric bleeding.

How to give first aid to gastric bleeding

First of all: the patient needs to rest in bed immediately after bleeding. It is better to take the flat position and raise the lower limbs. It is not suitable to take the head low and feet high position, so as not to affect the breathing. Try to let the patient eliminate the tense mood and take good measures to keep warm.

Secondly, keeping the respiratory tract unobstructed is the most important thing in family rescue. Because the patient vomits the blood or the stomach content once is inhaled the respiratory tract easy to cause the asphyxia or the aspiration pneumonia, specially the blood pressure is low, the unconsciousness, the general condition is bad old age patient is more likely to occur. Therefore, when the patient has hematemesis, the head should be tilted to one side to avoid aspiration, and the oral contents should be cleaned up in time.

Finally: once the patient has hematemesis or melena, stop eating or drinking immediately. Because eating and drinking water will not only aggravate the bleeding, but also increase the difficulty of endoscopic treatment after admission. After hematemesis, it's best to let the patient gargle and spit out. Water can't be swallowed, but can contain melted ice, and cold compress the left upper abdomen with cold water bag.

matters needing attention

Pay attention to eat nutritious food, eat more high protein food and high vitamin food, ensure that the body's various nutrients are sufficient, prevent anemia and malnutrition. Usually to develop good living habits, do work and rest, can be appropriate for physical exercise.