Mini First Aid Bradford, West Leeds & Huddersfield

15/08/2025

Have you seen this information about cleaning wounds with sterile wipes? It’s useful
To know the latest but wanted to let you know that the wipes currently in our first aid kits are sterile and unaffected by this issue. However, if you use non-sterile, alcohol-free wipes at home for any reason, it's worth double-checking if your particular brand is affected.

Please check the link in the original UKHSA post below for more information.

⚠️ Together with the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, we’re advising the public to stop using certain non-sterile alcohol-free wipes, as they may be contaminated with Burkholderia stabilis.
The following products have been found to be affected:
• ValueAid Alcohol Free Cleansing Wipes
• Microsafe Moist Wipe Alcohol Free
• Steroplast Sterowipe Alcohol Free Cleansing Wipes
• Reliwipe Alcohol Free Cleansing Wipes
📰🔗 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-advised-to-stop-using-certain-non-sterile-alcohol-free-wipes

15/08/2025

If your child is going back to school over the coming weeks and is feeling nervous or worried, or is struggling with separation or saying goodbye, you could give them a Hug Button!

Draw a heart on both your and your child’s wrist, charge it up by touching hearts and tell them that if they feel sad or miss you while at school to press the hug button and it will send them a virtual hug from Mummy or Daddy and let you know they are thinking about you 💚

If you have advice or tips on separation anxiety, pop them in the comments for anyone who might be going through this and share with anyone who needs this! 💚

08/08/2025

And guess what? We teach you all this and lots more in our baby & child first aid class!

In just two hours of your time, you could learn these vital first aid essentials: how to spot meningitis or sepsis, how to treat a burn or a head bump, and how to help your child if they are choking or having a febrile seizure.


https://leeds.minifirstaid.co.uk/

06/08/2025

🚨 Please read!

Do you have this game? Or perhaps you know someone who does?

Multiple cases of this magnetic strategy game have been recalled due to the danger of strong magnets small enough to be swallowed.

Strong magnets like these can rip through a child’s gut if swallowed, causing life-threatening injuries.

That’s why we recommend avoiding any small, loose magnets in the house if you have young children.

Discover more about the risks and how to keep children safe: https://capt.org.uk/magnet-safety/

06/08/2025

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☀️ Sunburn: What to Do (and What NOT to Do!)

Whether it’s a day in the garden or a surprise heatwave 🌞, sunburn can creep up fast, especially on little ones with delicate skin.

If your child gets sunburned:
🧊 Take them out of the sun and cool the skin with cool water
🧴 Use a gentle aftersun or moisturiser
🥤 Encourage them to drink fluids to avoid dehydration and help them cool down
🚫 Never use ice or greasy creams like petroleum jelly
👕 Keep the skin covered and out of the sun until healed

Sun safety isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being prepared.

Want more tips like these? Join us for a class and feel confident for whatever summer brings.

06/08/2025

Awesome… 🙌

Healthy Holidays Leeds

05/08/2025

💚BBQ SAFETY💚

We talk a lot in the summer months about barbecue safety and the danger of burns from the residual heat of used disposable barbecues.

This story and images are why:

“After a beautiful evening and BBQ, we cooled the disposable barbecue with water until it was cool enough to lift comfortably in bare hands; even the underside felt only warm.

A few minutes later, my six-year-old daughter was screaming. I thought she must have been stung by something, but when I looked under her foot, I saw that she had stood in the patch of sand that had been under the barbecue.

I knew it was a serious burn and immediately grabbed my water bottle and poured water over it. I carried her to the sea and held her foot in the water for around 15-20 minutes, then filled a bucket with water and kept her foot in until we got to the hospital.

She was seen by nurses who gave her immediate pain relief. In the large area that you can see in the image, all the skin had effectively detached from the layer below, like a burst blister. The nurses decided to cut away that layer of tissue altogether, as they said it would aggravate the wound for my daughter if it were left in place as it might move around and be bumpy.

They cleaned the wound firmly and put on a layer of burn dressing/film that wouldn’t adhere to the wound, then gauze, and then a thin stretchy/conforming bandage and a further crêpe bandage, and then taped over everything using tape like giant micropore so her foot was pretty huge by the end.

We have a follow-up appointment with plastic surgery outpatients to check if skin grafts or any further treatment is needed."

Please take care this summer. The ground underneath a disposable BBQ can remain dangerously hot, long after the BBQ itself has been removed and disposed of.

Thank you to this family for sharing their story to warn other families 💚