G5 Health Review for Midterm Test (Semester 2)

Rearrange the following steps to conduct first aid at home.

• Use gloves if there is blood.

• Assess the situation

• Perform first aid if you know how

•  Stay calm and take a deep breath

Rearrange the following steps to conduct first aid for nose bleeding.

• Pinch your nose just below the bony ridge. Breath through your mouth.

• Check to see if the bleeding has stopped.

•  Stay calm and sit upright, drop your head slightly forward. 

• Pinch your nose for 5 to 10 minutes. Keep still! Don’t move, talk or sniff.

To treat minor burns, hold the affected area in a basin of water to cool it. Do this for ____ minutes.

• 5-8

• 10-15

• 20-30

• 1-2

When should you seek immediate medical attention for cuts, grazes, and scrapes?

• If there is a foreign object embedded in the wound

•  If the wound is bleeding

•  If you don’t have gloves to use

•  If there’s no medicine

Why should you tilt your head forwards in treating nosebleed?

• So that you do not disturb the blood clots that have already formed in the nose

• To allow the blood to drain from the nostrils, instead of running down the throat

•  So you will heal as quickly as possible

• To stop the pain inside your nose

First aid is basic medical help given to someone as soon as he or she is hurt in an accident or suddenly becomes ill.

• True

• False

It is a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing.

(Type your answer in small letters. Check the spelling before you submit your answer.)

(a)  

You must seek medical help if your nose is still bleeding after doing the first aid for about ____ minutes.

• 10

• 3

• 20

• 5

Match the following diseases according to their symptoms:

• Cough lasting for more than 21 days, expelling blood, loss of weight, loss of appetite

• Various type of influenza

• fever higher than 38 degree celsius, breathing difficulties

• Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

• Fever, runny nose, sore throat, ulcers in the mouth, small fluid-filled blisters on hands and feet. 

• Tuberculosis

• Watery faeces, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain

• Cholera

Match the following diseases on how they transmit from one person to another:

• Mosquitoes

• Dysentery

• Air

• Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

• Touch

• Tuberculosis

• Contaminated Food and Water

• Dengue