P1-4 Health and wellbeing First aid topic – Choking

Today the boys and girls learned what to do in the event of someone choking and there is no adult to help.  They learned to try 4 things;

1. Ask them to cough it up – if this doesn’t work…
2. Slap it out (5 times)- if this doesn’t work…
3. Squeeze it out (5 times) – if this doesn’t work…
4. Call 999 and continue to do 5 slaps then 5 squeezes until help arrives or the choking stops