Cough. Medical care for a child

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Cough. Medical care for a child

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Cough may have different causes - neurotic, allergic, infectious, traumatic, etc. By the nature of the cough and the accompanying symptom, it can be assumed that it caused it.

If the baby has normal temperature and well-being, and the cough does not prevent the child from eating, playing and sleeping, but happens at those moments when he is worried or upset about something, then most likely the cause of the cough is purely psychological.

If the cough starts suddenly, attacks, wakes the child at night, persistently persists, then this is an infectious disease.

If you think your child has something in his throat and coughing makes it difficult for him to breathe, it could be an allergy or a foreign object in his airway. Call an ambulance immediately!

When urgent care is needed

With a noisy and wheezing cough, when the child has difficulty breathing. This may be a false croup, which is dangerous for suffocation.

If the cough is accompanied by fever, palpitations, apathy and vomiting, yellow-green sputum is produced.

First aid

1. With a persistent, bothersome cough, pat the child on the back on both sides at least 10 times in a row, 4 times a day. This helps clear the airways of mucus. The doctor can determine those places where the most mucus that interferes with normal breathing accumulates.

2. Ventilate the room well. Allergens or irritants in the air in a child's bedroom can cause or worsen a cough caused by an infection.

3. Stick to the rule:

ATTENTION!

Never smoke in the house or in the car in the presence of the baby. This can give him an allergic cough.

4. Before giving antitussive medicine, correctly determine the nature of the cough. It's better if the doctor does it.

5. If the cough is persistent and exhausting, without sputum production, give the child cough suppressants - suppressants.

6. Dry cough requires the use of expectorants or mixtures.

7. If coughing attacks occur frequently and bother the child throughout the day, combine expectorants with suppressants: give medicines half an hour before bedtime and then every 4-6 hours if the child wakes up from coughing.

home remedies for cough

Wash the radish and scrape out an indentation with a knife 1/3 of the height of the radish. Pour in 2 tbsp. spoons of liquid honey. Place the radish upright in a bowl or cup and cover with thick paper. After a few hours, juice will appear in the recess. Give his child 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day before meals and at bedtime.

Cut the radish into very thin slices and sprinkle each slice generously with sugar. Leave for 6 hours. The resulting juice take 1 tbsp. spoon every hour (with a strong cough).

Pour water over a small lemon and boil it over low heat for 10 minutes. Cool, then cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice out of it. Add 2 tbsp to lemon juice. tablespoons of glycerin, pour honey into a glass to the brim and mix it all thoroughly. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day before meals and at night.

For infants: add 1 tbsp to 2 teaspoon of honey. spoons of anise seeds and a pinch of table salt, pour 1 glass of water, boil over low heat for 10 minutes and strain. Give 1 teaspoon every 2 hours. Decrease the dose of the mixture as the cough subsides.

Mix sugar with resin (pine sap) in equal proportions, roll the mixture into pea-sized balls and dry them. Take (suck) 1 scoop 3 times a day after meals.

Mash ripe bananas and put them in a pot of hot water in proportions: 2 bananas to 1 glass of water with sugar; warm up, drink this mixture.

Rub the child's chest with a dry cloth, then rub the interior lard or melted butter dry. A small amount (1 part to 4 parts of lard) of pine oil, which is considered better than cow's oil, should be added to the lard.

Mix equal parts of rye, oats and barley, add chicory and 2 g of ground bitter almonds and let the child drink like ordinary coffee, with hot baked milk.

Use coltsfoot infusion as a mild diaphoretic and expectorant. Brew 1-10 g of herbs with 15 cup of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes and strain. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day.

Give your child a decoction of primrose roots as an expectorant. Brew 1 tbsp. a spoon (with a top) of the roots 500 ml of boiling water, keep on low heat for 20 minutes, leave for 1 hour and strain. You need to drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day.

Mix 1 cup turnip juice with 1 tbsp. spoon of honey, hold on fire until boiling and immediately remove from heat. Let your child drink 3 sips 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Author: Basharova N.A.

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