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[F302]First Aid At Home

by Peter Gallacher, Pet

In addition, around 15,000 children are admitted to hospital suffering from burns.

However, Nurse Kathleen McGraw said the statistics aren't as scary as they sound.

"You do have to put it into context, children do tend to be accident prone when they first start to walk and crawl and move around. It is part of the way in which we learn," she said.

So, what should be in your first aid box?

"You may have cuts and bruises to deal with so think of the ages of people who are in your house. A scrape is a scrape whether you're eight months old or 80 years old, the principles remain the same - have things that can cleanse the wound.

Have things that you can treat cuts and bruises with. These are things that will stop wounds from getting infected. Things like antiseptic creams, gels and sprays."

Kathleen says there are many old wives tales regarding how to deal with cuts and burns. She warns to ignore these tales.

"The most dangerous one is probably one of the oldest I've heard about putting butter on burns. No, no, no and many times no. The best thing to do with a burn is to run cold water and run that over the injury for 10 or 15 minutes and then cover it with a cold bandage.

I've been asked an awful lot about putting steaks onto black eyes. Once again this is an old tale and should be avoided. The best thing for bruising is to have a packet of frozen peas in you fridge. It can take away irritation and inflammation. For children have ice lollies in your freezer. If they cut their lip or chip a tooth this will take down the swelling and reduce the pain."

What about pain relief for kids? Kathleen advises: "proper paracetemol medicine is perfectly safe from the age of 3 to 6 months onwards."

So, to sum up, always have a first aid box in your home, and if you use medicine or plasters make sure you top them up when you have used them. There's nothing worse than searching for a plaster only to find that there's none left.

Groceries only offer any run-of-the-mill cleaning liquids soaps and waxes to help you ease out germs, stains, polishing, disinfecting and stink problems. With all those available the closest to clean that I feel comfortable with is a big bottle of bleach.

They say in getting janitorial cleaning products you should at least acquire in bulk, if your home is just a studio apartment then getting the bulk orders would be such a waste of money. But a good idea would be if you are just one of those studios in that apartment is to buy wholesale cleaning products and sell it to your neighbors or friends and have some extra cash coming in while enjoying the benefits of a clean home! Hah!

My sales side of the brain is feeling a bit rushed into doing it now since I love the clean smell and look of hotel bathrooms and would want it for my home. I found out as well that toxicity is not an issue, Hotel and Buildings have more often than not, opt for green cleaning products that lessen the dangers of inhaling strong cleansers.

I gathered that my favorite cleaning liquid, Bleach it's called, is more harmful when inhaled than those organic cleaning products that are being used in my favorite buildings, hotels and let's not forget the hospitals, they are known for the cleanliness as a requirement due to patients that are sensitive to bacteria and easily spread diseases.

I am not here to convince you to get from me while I go and contact a manufacturer to secure me some cleaning product for my helper to use. I'm sure that as you read this you go “ Yeah, I love that smell of clean air and linen not to forget the bathrooms that are squeaky clean along with the floors, and boy, that oh so shampooed and vacuumed carpet!”

I'm sure with the level of intelligence that would require you to read this article is the same with the level of desire and concern that you have for true cleanliness. I couldn't go any profound in telling you that you can have what you see in hotels, buildings and hospitals that you adore same as I do.

If you weren't enticed enough to buy from me from the last paragraph's texts then, I don't know where you even came from and why you are reading this. But hope is not lost for you, you can die of envy of those establishments and opt for the bleach same way as I started before I decided to write this article and be sick with the horrid smell before you can see the result by then, good luck and God speed.

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