Child Health June 2026 Issue

[Machine Translation] This issue features the second installment of "Practice of Home Care." Volume 29 Number 2 dealt with illnesses, and this issue focuses on how to deal with injuries and heat stroke. As the temperature rises and children become more active, injuries, heat stroke, and insect bites will increase. Children are often away from home, and there may not be a hospital nearby. It is important to take care of your child at home before visiting a doctor to prevent the disease from worsening. Therefore, in this issue, we have compiled the contents that childcare providers and medical professionals should know, based on the evidence, such as the introduction of initial responses to head contusions, sprains and fractures, accidental ingestion of foreign objects, airway foreign objects, insect bites, and heat stroke, which are relatively easy to encounter, and updates on wound treatment and care of burns. We hope that this will be an opportunity for you to review procedures that you have taken for granted. We have also included treatment of dental injuries and eye injuries, which are often blind spots. In addition, based on these injuries and others, we have also included a review of first-aid kits to be prepared at home. We hope that this special issue will be a useful reference for providing information to parents.

今号の特集はホームケアのすゝめ第2弾です.29巻2号は病気についてでしたが,今回は,ケガや熱中症などの対応を取り上げています.これから気温も上がって,子どもの活動も活発になると,けがや熱中症,虫刺されなどが増えます.出かけることも多く,近くに病院がない場合もあるかもしれません.悪化させないためにも受診前のホームケアは大切です. そこで今回は,保育者や医療者が知っておくべき内容として,比較的遭遇しやすい頭部打撲や捻挫・骨折,異物誤飲,気道異物,虫刺され,熱中症の初期対応の紹介のほか,創傷処置や熱傷のケアのアップデートなど,エビデンスを踏まえた内容でまとめ直しました. これまで当たり前だと思っていた処置を見直すきっかけになればと思います.盲点となりやすい歯のケガの処置,目のけがへの対応も含めています.さらに,これらのけがなどを踏まえて,自宅での備えとして救急セットの見直しにも触れました.保護者に情報提供するための参考となる特集になれば幸いです.