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

•  Stay calm and take a deep breath

• Perform first aid if you know how

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

• Check to see if the bleeding has stopped.

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

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

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

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.)

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:

• fever higher than 38 degree celsius, breathing difficulties

• Tuberculosis

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

• Cholera

• Watery faeces, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain

• Various type of influenza

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

• Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

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

• Contaminated Food and Water

• Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

• Mosquitoes

• Tuberculosis

• Air

• Dengue

• Touch

• Dysentery