Useful app for parents: "Poisoning - First Aid for Children"

If you are the proud parent, you know how it is - constantly worry about your favorite child. Big world is fraught with many dangers for a child. For example, it can easily be poisoned, because it is surrounded by so much "delicious": strawberry toothpaste, dishwashing detergent with the smell of orange, bright pills, funny spotted mushroom in the forest…

It is worth to look away, and this baby is something happy to chew. Fortunately, the deadly substances is not so much, and most importantly - at the first signs of poisoning to take appropriate action, then your child will not threaten anything.

Here are just a key word in that sentence - "appropriate measures". Each of toxic substances has its own method of treatment. We often try to solve the problem with activated charcoal, milk and the old method of "two fingers in his mouth."

Application creators of "Poisoning - First Aid for Children" are trying to solve this problem by creating a guide to the most common poisons. Having at hand such an encyclopedia, you can immediately take the right measures to save her child.

Sections of the application "Poisoning - First Aid for Children"

In several sections of the application: "Home", "Plants and Mushrooms", "Animals" (in this case we are talking about animal bites). In section "House" contains such popular categories as household chemicals, cosmetics and medicines.
For household chemicals include various cleaning agents, paints, adhesives, mercury, markers - in general, all the chemical that the child can find at home.

Cosmetics - a toothpaste, soap, shampoo, powder. In the category of "Medicines" It does not list the names of medicines and their active ingredients, so before you look into the application, you must examine the packaging carefully drugs. You can search for a medicine for other purposes (such as antibiotics).

When you find the poison, you'll see a list of the symptoms of poisoning, and two points: what to do necessarily, and that - in any case. For example, I learned a lot.

Section "Plants and Mushrooms" It is equipped with a great picture, so that you can quite quickly find what kind of "berry" or "Mushroom" eat your young naturalist. By the way, the plants often cause burns on the skin, and in these cases, too, there are tips in the app.

In section "Animals" collected the most popular types of bites: dog, wasp, bee, snake, jellyfish. This section will be useful not only to parents but also to any person, because none of us is immune from the not the most pleasant encounters with wildlife. For each type of bite and pointed out what to do, what not to do.

Another section of the app - the dictionary from A to Z. If you do not know how to categorize a poisonous substance, just look it up in the dictionary.

emergency button

On the pages describing the action for poisoning you can see in the upper right corner of the buttons with the image of handsets. This is a feature that allows you to make a quick dial in the poison control center or an ambulance.

Starting an application using the application, select the country that are in the moment, and fill in the numbers. There is a huge plus - a list of phone numbers for the salvation of many countries, which will help you when you go on vacation.

Can you trust the application?

Appendix "Poisoning - First Aid for Children" is a good mix of a lot of useful background information and comfortable interface. This application is really easy to use in an emergency. There is only one question - is it possible to trust the data, which contains pointers?

The answer to this question is provided by the developers themselves, see product information. They claim that long studied the subject and all kinds of materials, but still can not take full responsibility for the information housed in the annex.

I personally conducted some research on the web for several toxic substances and the data found in line with what is specified in the application. In general, it is my trust, and I am glad that such a useful product appeared in the App Store.

By the way, now it is available for free. Why not take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to make a useful reference in my iPhone? And if you have had the experience of using the application, be sure to share your thoughts in the comments on this subject.