It is inevitable to encounter some common injuries in daily life. If the injuries are treated properly, we may head off disasters; otherwise, we may run into greater risks. Experts have listed out the first-aid common sense of eight common injuries.

1. Nose Bleeding

Immediately: incline slightly forward, hold your nose for 5 to 15 minutes or place the ice bag on your nose.

Never: tilt your head back (the blood is easily swallowed that way and may go into the lung to make you in danger).

Time to seek for medical advice: if the blood is not stopped within 20 minutes, and simultaneously you suffer from headache, vertigo, tinnitus or visual problems, you should seek for medical advice.

2. Foreign Bodies in the Eyes

Immediately: wink your eyes several times to get the foreign bodies out. If it doesn鈥檛 work, you could hold your eyelids, and wash your eyes with the running water.

Never: rub your eyes (even the smallest foreign bodies will scratch your cornea and lead to infection).

Time to seek for medical advice: if chemicals like bleaching powder splash into the eyes, and you can still feel pain and swelling in your eyes or you can not see clearly after washing, you should seek for medical advice.

3. Sprains

Immediately: apply the cold compress, and change it for every 20 minutes. Wrap up the sprained joints with flexible adhesive bandages, and lift up the sprained areas. You should not move the affected area for at least 24 hours. After that, hot compress should be applied to the affected areas to promote blood circulation.

Never: work with injuries (it may lead to more serious injuries, such as torn ligament, etc.).

Time to seek medical advice: if it doesn鈥檛 turn better after several days, you may encounter facture, muscle tear or torn ligament, and shall seek for medical care immediately.

4. Burns

Immediately: rinse the burned area with cool water, or apply cool compress by wet towels. If it is first-class injury (red surface) or second-class injury (blisters), you could apply loose bandages.

Never: apply ice bag to the burned areas (ice will damage the surface and worsen the injuries), or puncture blisters or apply antibiotics to the burned areas (it will easily get infection).

Time to seek for medical advice: If a second-degree burn area exceeds the size of a palm, or a third-degree burn (skin broken or scorch due to burns), electric burn, and chemical burns occur, or the patients cough with tears or have difficulty in breathing, it is time to seek for medical advice.

5. Heavy Blow to Head

Immediately: call the emergency line if the injured person is in a coma; or carry out temporary hematischesis process under doctors鈥? guidance if the injured area bloods, for there may be internal injuries in the head. Ice bags can be applied to small lumps.

Never: leave the injured person alone, especially when he is asleep. The correct way is to wake him up every three to four hours, and make him answer some simple questions to ensure that there is no problem with his head.

Time to seek for medical advice: If the injured person suffers from convulsion, dizziness, nausea or vomiting, it is time to seek for medical advice.

6. Asphyxia

Immediately: call the emergency line. If the patient is over one year old, you could make him incline forward and smack 5 times with palms between his shoulder blades. If it doesnt work, you can make him lay on his back, place one fist above his navel with another hand holding the fist, and then press up and down for 5 times.

Never: feed water or food to the patient when he is coughing.

7. Intoxication

Immediately: call the emergency line if the patient is in a coma or has difficulty in breathing,. You shall make clear the poison type, poisoning time and amount, patient, age, weight, etc..

Never: apply emetic drugs, or feed anything to patients rashly

8. Trauma

Immediately: apply hemostasia by gauze compression in the affected areas. For minor cuttings or scratches, you can wash them by suds first, smear a cover of Vaseline or antibiotic ointment, and then wrap up with band-aid.

Never: rashly wash large and deep wounds with lots of bloods or rub ointment on them, and should never take out piercing objects in the wounds.