Baby/child first aid

It is often said that asthma is not diagnosed in children under the age of two years old, but actually children can often suffer from a viral-induced wheeze up to 5 years old, and still not warrant an asthma diagnosis. This is because children have so many viral illnesses when they are in infancy and […]

Babies are not as fragile as we believe them to be. They are born with many natural survival instincts such as the gag reflex, the diving reflex and the rooting and sucking reflex. However they are unable to tell us how they feel, which means that emergency situations with a very young child can be

In a first aid class, you will learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on adults, children and perhaps most important, CPR on a baby. An infant is defined as a baby under 12 months old. CPR on an infant is not vastly different to CPR on an adult, but there are some very important

Drowning is the biggest preventable killer of children under 5. How many babies drown each year? 25 children aged 0-4 years drowned in Australia in 2020-21. This is a 108% increase to the year before. This may have been due o the COVID lockdowns. 36% of these deaths were boys. Most of thes accidents happened

The rate of childhood allergy has risen exponentially over the last few decades. One study showed that in 1960, 3% of people worldwide had food allergies and in 2018, 7% of people had food allergies. This is not just the rate of people, it is also the range of foods that people are now allergic