British actors David Walliams, David Mitchell, Johnny Vegas and Sir John Hurt have lent their voices to a video campaign offering tips on how to save a choking baby
Actors David Walliams, David Mitchell, Johnny Vegas and Sir John Hurt have lent their voices to a new video campaign offering tips on how to save a choking baby.
They’re not our normal superheroes, but a peanut, a pen lid, a princess and a jelly baby have joined forces to help save children’s lives. “The Chokeables” are the stars of a new campaign to show how to help a choking baby.
The light-hearted 40 second clip, named The Chokeables, has Peep Show's Mitchell playing a chewed-up pen lid, while Britain's Got Talent judge Walliams voices a princess doll. Comic Johnny Vegas portrays a jelly baby who exclaims: “Babies are choking on innocent looking things like us. And we’ve had enough. I’m a baby that chokes babies, such a tragic irony”. And Oscar-nominated Hurt - who has starred in the likes of Alien and the Harry Potter series - offers a cameo as a coughed-up peanut.
The animated toys then demonstrate how to give first aid to a choking baby:
They’re not our normal superheroes, but a peanut, a pen lid, a princess and a jelly baby have joined forces to help save children’s lives. “The Chokeables” are the stars of a new campaign to show how to help a choking baby.
The light-hearted 40 second clip, named The Chokeables, has Peep Show's Mitchell playing a chewed-up pen lid, while Britain's Got Talent judge Walliams voices a princess doll. Comic Johnny Vegas portrays a jelly baby who exclaims: “Babies are choking on innocent looking things like us. And we’ve had enough. I’m a baby that chokes babies, such a tragic irony”. And Oscar-nominated Hurt - who has starred in the likes of Alien and the Harry Potter series - offers a cameo as a coughed-up peanut.
The animated toys then demonstrate how to give first aid to a choking baby:
- Lay them face down on your thigh and give up to five back blows.
- If that doesn’t work, turn them over and give up to five chest thrusts until the airway is clear.
- If that still doesn’t work, call an ambulance.
St John Ambulance says it devised the campaign after learning more than 40 per cent of parents had seen their babies choke, but almost 80 per cent didn’t know what to do in the situation.
“We hope people love the video and share it with their friends and family, so that as many people as possible know some first aid,” the organisation says.
Anything smaller than a D-size battery is a choking risk for babies and toddlers under the age of about three. Parents are advised to avoid exposing young children to toy parts, balloons, pebbles, coins, jewellery, small batteries and foods such as raw carrots and apples, nuts, popcorn, grapes, skinned hot dogs and sausages, uncooked peas and fruit pips and stones.
Watch it here: