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A medical doctor, Dr. Jamiu Umah, has warned the public to stop applying raw eggs and other substances as first aid on victims of burns saying it is an unwholesome practice.

Umah, a staff member with the Burns and Trauma Centre of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos on Friday. He described the use of raw eggs among other substances to treat burns as “unhealthy and unscientific”. “What is medically advocated as first aid for victims from hot substances such as water, petrol, coal, fire wood, gas, and even chemical burns is to immerse the victim in water. “The belief that robbing raw eggs, pap, engine oil, wet salt and wet flour on the bodies of victims of burns as a first aid measure is wrong, unsafe, unhygienic and inappropriate.

“The medical advice in such situations is to immerse the victim in water and at best when possible in cold water,’’ he said. He said that cold water would help to cool the heat energy that caused the burns on the victim in the first place. “Heat energy is the main cause of burns and so the normal and proper application is to rob on the victim’s body a substance that will reduce the effect of the heat. “And if the heat energy that aggravates burns is reduced, victims of burns at most can suffer from blisters and not deep burns penetrating into the skin and flesh,’’ he said. Umah said that the robbing of engine oil on the bodies of victims of burns was the commonest in the last five years. “Most of those brought into the hospital with serious burns have had engine oil robbed on them. “The second common item also wrongfully applied on them by the people to stabilise burns patients before bringing them to the hospital was raw egg,’’ he said. Oh my these people need to complete a first aid course.

The expert said applying wet edible materials as first aid on victims of fire accidents was unknown to medical science. “These are not known to the medical field, research or advice. “It is a huge misconception to rob edibles that have high protein contents on victims of burns. “These food items contain protein that serve as food for bacteria and when applied on wounds, they will only create feeding and breeding grounds for micro organisms to flourish. “What has been ultimately achieved by robbing edibles on bodies of victims of burns is for infection to flourish on the wounds of such patients. “It also makes the treatment of burns difficult as well as worsens the victims’ recuperation. “ Robbing of raw eggs, pap, engine oil, wet salt and wet flour on victims of burns worsens the wounds,’’ he said.

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A small clinical trial conducted at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute resulted in two-thirds of the children being treated with an experimental immunotherapy treatment being rid of their allergy.

Importantly, their desensitisation to peanuts persisted for up to four years after treatment.

“These children had been eating peanut freely in their diet without having to follow any particular program of peanut intake in the years after treatment was completed,” trial lead Mimi Tang said on Thursday.

Peanut allergy is the most common cause of anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction, and one of the most common causes of food allergy deaths. Immunologist and allergist Professor Tang has pioneered a new form of treatment that combines a probiotic with peanut oral immunotherapy, known as PPOIT. Instead of avoiding the allergen, the treatment is designed to reprogram the immune system response to peanuts and over the longer term develop tolerance. It’s thought combining probiotics with the immunotherapy gives the immune system the “nudge” it needs, Prof Tang said.

A total of 48 children were enrolled in the PPOIT trial and were randomly given either a combination of the probiotic, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, together with peanut protein in increasing amounts, or a placebo, once daily for 18 months. At the end of the first stage of the trial in 2013, 82 per cent of children who received the probiotic and peanut oral immunotherapy treatment were deemed tolerant to peanuts compared with just four per cent in the placebo group. Four years later, the majority who gained initial tolerance were still eating peanut as part of their normal diet while 70 per cent passed a further challenge test to confirm long-term tolerance to peanut.

Prof Tang said the results were very exciting and had been life-changing for the children.

“We had children who came into the study allergic to peanuts, having to avoid peanuts in their diet, being very vigilant around that, carrying a lot of anxiety,” she said.

“At the end of treatment, and even four years later, many of these children who had benefited from our probiotic peanut therapy could now live like a child who didn’t have peanut allergy.” The results have been published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. If confirmed by larger clinical studies, the broader hope is that the treatment can impact more food allergies among children.

“This is a major step forward in identifying an effective treatment to address the food allergy problem in Western societies,” Prof Tang said.

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Commonly known as the Sharp-nosed viper, this snake has a horror bite.

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THIS IS the stuff of nightmares.

Horrific photos of a snake bite have shown just what happens when a victim doesn’t receive adequate treatment following an attack.

The images, which were posted to Facebook group ‘Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’in New York, show the hand of an unidentified victim who has been bitten by a Sharp-nosed viper.

Initially, the bite itself looks like a small cut. But according to US-born, Australian-based venomologist Dr Bryan Fry — a bite like this can cause the death of cells within hours — which is exactly what happened for this person.

“That type of snake [Sharp-nosed viper] has a venom that is extremely tissue destroying,” Dr Fry told news.com.au.

The bite initially looked more like a small cut.Source:Facebook

A bite from a Sharp-nosed viper can lead to a state of massive internal bleeding in a prey animal.Source:Facebook

“The reason for this is that they kill their prey by haemorrhagic shock, where some parts of the venom damage the blood vessel walls, while other parts destroy the ability of the blood to clot, leading to a state of massive internal bleeding in a prey animal.”

The Sharp-nosed viper usually kills prey by haemorrhagic shock.Source:Facebook

A bite from a Sharp-nosed viper causes massive swelling and bruising within hours.Source:Facebook

As Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Dr Fry said because it is a Chinese snake, antivenom for a bite like this might be hard to come by in remote areas so having done a first aid course will help victim.

“If it was in a private collection somewhere, they probably didn’t have it and likely none of the nearby zoos would either,” he explained.

“Thus, they’d have to suffer through the full effects.”

Dr Fry, who studies different types of venom and their potential use for drug development, said massive swelling and bruising would show up in a matter of hours, while large chunks of tissue would be dead in a day or two.

“A finger or entire hand may have to be amputated 3-4 days after the bite,” he said.

“Other parts of the body may also be affected, with kidneys in particular copping a real beating so a person may be on dialysis too for the rest of their life.

The victim’s thumb shrivelled and turned black.Source:Facebook

The victim’s thumb was amputated following the snake bite.Source:Facebook

In 2014, photos emerged of a 13-year-old girl whose leg shrivelled and turned completely black after being bitten by a snake.

She too had premature death of cells which caused her leg tissue to die.

According to the Instagram user who posted the image, the young girl was treated using traditional remedies from her indigenous culture before being transferred to Venezuela’s capital city for emergency medical treatment a month later.

Picture of an unidentified Venezuelan 13 year old suffering from Necrosis — effects of a snake bite on her leg. Picture: juventudmedica/InstagramSource:Instagram

The Instagram description written by Dr. Moreno Castillo, a surgeon specialising in trauma and orthopedics in the Central University of Venezuela and the University Hospital of Caracas, acknowledged the patient also suffered a broken elbow from the incident with the snake.

Make sure you complete a first aid course so that you can treat a snake bite.

News.com.au has contacted the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in New York for comment.

He was tidying up the house when he spotted the reptile slithering in the shadows underneath the cot, and quickly called the experts.

Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers shared this image on Facebook, but even when you know it’s there the snake isn’t easy to spot.

There’s a snake lurking somewhere in this picture … Picture: Sunshine Coast Snake CatchersSource:Facebook

“A Little Mountain local was vacuuming his house today when he saw what he thought to be a young brown snake in the [baby’s] room! Keeping an eye on the snake he gave us a call and I rushed out,” said a snake catcher called Max.

He found slippery little sucker lurking between the nappy box and the wall.

You can see the dark shape in the shadow beside the box. Picture: Sunshine Coast Snake CatchersSource:Supplied

Initially, the father believed the snake could be an eastern brown, which is fast moving, aggressive, and the world’s second most venomous snake.

Once he got there, he realised the culprit was actually a mildly venomous yellow-faced whip snake, which can leave a nasty swelling if it strikes.

Still, a snake is a snake, and your child’s bed is not a good place to find one.

It comes just a few weeks after an office worker made headlines for successfully wrangling a python out of an edit suite at Channel Nine in Darwin.

Snake evicted from a Channel Nine edit suite

“My first suggestion to get rid of it was to burn the place down but no one else went for it,” tweeted news director Kate Limon.

She said her first instinct was to turn to the internet for help.

“I was googling (a snake catcher) to call ASAP but turns out our program manager is a wildlife warrior,” she said.

“She lives on a property and wasn’t scared at all.

“In her bloody floral dress and heels — she put us all to shame.”

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CPR is an important tool that could be the difference between life and death when a victim suffers from cardiac arrest, nearly drowns, or becomes unconscious as a result of an accident or other medical condition. When CPR and first aid is applied in time, the damage done to the victim’s body can be minimised and their blood can keep flowing until professional medical help arrives to revive them and give them more extensive care.

As a parent, you know that your child can get into a variety of accidents and if your child suffers from a chronic condition that could cause them to collapse, you might be even more aware of the risk that something could go wrong someday. By getting your certification from a group like the National CPR Foundation, though, you can become more confident in your ability to remain in control and deliver life-saving first aid to your child whenever he or she might need it.

What Is CPR?

CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a first aid technique used to keep a person alive until professional help arrives after an episode of cardiac arrest or another serious accident that leaves the person unconscious. For example, a cardiac arrest could be caused by poisoning, drugs, a heart attack, heart disease, blood loss, a traumatic injury, anaphylaxis, or any disturbance in the heart’s rhythm.

Every cell in the body needs oxygen, nutrients, and a means to remove waste to thrive. Because nutrients and oxygen are carried throughout the body and to your cells by your blood, if your heart stops pumping and the blood does not get delivered, the body will begin to die because it will be deprived of the oxygen that it needs. It takes just 4 to 5 minutes for the brain cells to begin dying when they are not receiving oxygen and this could lead to brain damage, as well as death.

When CPR is administered right away, efforts can be made to keep blood flowing all over the body, delivering much-needed oxygen to the cells to keep the organs alive. Although CPR will not be able to restart a victim’s heart, it will help to keep them alive until an ambulance arrives with medical professionals who can then use a defibrillator to try to jumpstart the heart again with the help of electrical shocks.

Even Infants Might Need CPR

If you have an infant, knowing how to perform CPR is really important. By understanding how to recognise a medical emergency, and how to properly and safely perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions on a little body, you could help your baby until you are able to hand him or her off to medical professionals who can take it from there. Failing to provide this immediate care could result in your baby’s body or brain being permanently damaged, and it also increases the risk that your baby will pass away.

A few of the scenarios in which CPR could be lifesaving for an infant include:

• Choking
• Suffocation
• Poisoning
• Nearly drowning
• Asthma
• Smoke inhalation
• Electrical shock
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SIDS
• Obstructive apnoea
• Head trauma

Other Reasons Why Parents Should Learn How to Perform CPR

Children are active, and they can get themselves into a lot of trouble. Sometimes, they can even get themselves into situations that are dangerous for their health. For example, during an innocent summertime pool party, your child might dive into the deep end and risk nearly drowning. In that scenario, CPR could be lifesaving. Or, if your child loves running around on the playground with friends, a terrible fall could cause him or her to become unconscious and CPR might also be required to keep the child alive.

Even though you do not ever want to think about your child needing CPR, the truth is that anything can happen. Even having dinner with the family could result in your child choking and suffocating to the point that he or she loses consciousness. At that point, knowing how to clear the airway and perform CPR will make a big difference. Rather than standing there and feeling panicked and hopeless, you will be able to take charge of the situation, tell someone to call for an ambulance right away, and begin performing chest compressions that will help your son or daughter survive.

Research has proven that, in the event of cardiac arrest, a victim’s odds of surviving are much higher if CPR is used before a defibrillator becomes available. So, rather than just waiting for the ambulance to arrive, you can be taking active steps to help your child when a medical emergency occurs.

What Can You Expect to Learn During a CPR Class?

There are a lot of things that you can expect to learn during a CPR class, and if you also take a first aid course, you can learn even more techniques that you can use to help your child in the event of an emergency.

First off, in a typical CPR class, you will dive into how to assess a person’s state of health, such as their breathing and their heart rate. You will discover when CPR should be administered and you will grow confident in assessing an individual to determine if CPR would help and whether it is necessary until help arrives.

Then you will dive into how to perform CPR on children of all ages. This includes how to clear the airway safely to allow oxygen to flow into and out of the body, as well as how to perform rescue breaths in the most effective way to deliver even more oxygen into the lungs when the body needs it most. Plus, you will learn the most important component of CPR, which is chest compressions. You will learn where to apply the compressions, and at what depth you should go for the best results. On top of that, the instructor will let you know what rhythm to use when applying chest compressions in order to help the victim survive. And if you are going to apply rescue breaths along with chest compressions, you will also know the proper ratio for both so that you can give the victim air while still compressing the chest to keep the blood moving.

Be There for Your Child and Other Children

A lot of parents don’t take the time to enrol in a CPR course, so if you do, you can rest assured that at least you will know what to do during an emergency. You can step in and help by performing CPR, no matter where you are when a child becomes a victim. Whether you are out shopping, at a restaurant, or at your child’s school when an emergency occurs, you will know exactly what to do, and you will not have to rely on other parents knowing because you will be able to take action immediately.

Consider Taking a Class Today

As you can see, there are many great reasons why, as a parent, you should definitely sign up for a local CPR and first aid course. There are many courses available to choose from and you can even take them every few years in order to refresh your memory and learn about the latest techniques and recommendations from medical experts. Ultimately, knowing CPR could be the difference between saving your child, or someone else’s child, in an emergency, so it is an invaluable tool.

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Tiny sea crustaceans are to blame for a teenager’s bloody Melbourne beach visit, a marine biologist says.

Shocking images of Sam Kanizay’s lower legs and feet have been beamed around the world after the 16-year-old went for an innocent dip at Brighton’s Dendy Street Beach on Saturday to cool his aching muscles following a tough game of footy.

It sparked widespread debate among experts about what could have turned the youth’s feet into what looked like a scene from a horror film.

Sam’s dad Jarrod Kanizay dunked some meat into the water, attracting a swarm of critters which have undergone testing.

Museums Victoria marine biologist Genefor Walker-Smith examined a sample and said they were a type of scavenging crustacean, technically know as lysianassidae amphipods.

‘It was just unlucky. It’s possible he disturbed a feeding group but they are generally not out there waiting to attack like piranhas,’ Dr Walker-Smith said in a statement on Monday.

It was possible the bugs contained an anti-coagulant similar to that produced by leeches, which explained the inability to stem the flow of blood, she said.

Sam is unable to walk and remains in Dandenong Hospital.

‘As soon as we wiped them (his legs) down, they kept bleeding,’ Mr Kanizay said.

‘There was a massive pool of blood on the floor.’

Hospital staff were initially at a loss to explain what had happened as some other community members came forward to report they had experienced similar symptoms in the past.

Jeff Weir, executive director of the Dolphin Research Institute, once suffered a similar experience while on a cold night dive.

‘I didn’t realise it at the time because the water was cold and my face was numb, but my forehead and cheeks were bleeding,’ Mr Weir told AAP.

The marine biologist agreed the culprit was likely crustaceans called amphipods, which scavenge on decomposing plant and animal scraps, like slaters do in the garden.

‘Most people won’t feel it because they move around quickly in the water… the lad must have been standing very still for quite a while (to be bitten),’ he said.

St Kilda Football Club players often use the beach for recovery but were warned to stay out of the water following the latest report.

Player Koby Stevens said he’s heard of a similar experience.

‘A couple of weeks ago, one of my mates was down at the water and he came out and had blood on his feet as well,’ Stevens told afl.com

‘You really need your feet for this game so we were advised not to go down there.’

Tracey Beikoff, 39, has already sold about 4000 of her “rescue swags” online in Australia and is looking to expand into US and New Zealand.

Her Mareeba start-up has recently received $100,000 from the Palaszczuk Government’s Advance Queensland Ignite Ideas fund to film virtual reality scenarios to add to the app as an education tool. The first one on how to treat venomous snake bites was filmed last week.

“It’s about empowering people to be able to self rescue in those situations where you are a bit more remote,” Ms Beikoff said.

“It’s important that people not only have the gear that they need and are able to do first aid, but also that they know how to use it.”

Innovation Minister Leeanne Enoch said many Queensland businesses had developed world-class products and services but lacked the financial capacity to successfully commercialise them.

She said the Queensland Government’s Ignite Ideas fund was about helping businesses get products to market faster, boosting business growth and creating jobs.

Ms Beikoff started working on the idea for her Rescue Swag five years ago after a friend fell off her horse while they were riding on the Atherton Tableland.

She developed the Rescue Swag idea as a way to raise funds for her local RSPCA. The original swag included first aid gear such as compression bandages for snake bites, a sling, splint and dressings.

The concept has since expanded with the addition of the app which can provide people first aid information even in areas without mobile phone coverage. She’s created three different rescue swag modules – for major accidents, snake bites and burns, and minor incidents.

“I soon realised there was a broader demand for rescue swags and a much bigger market out there,” Ms Beikoff said.

The Ignite Ideas fund grant will allow her to progress towards commercialisation of the product overseas.

For more information: rescueswag.com.au