Favorite child for the mother is the most precious thing in life, so the health of the child is the most important headache for parents. Unpleasant sensations in the throat (pain, hoarseness, cough, burning) are manifested at the very initial stage of many diseases that can be associated both with the respiratory system and with disorders of other organs. In order for throat treatment to be effective, you need to find out the cause.
A cough may be a normal body reaction to small particles of dust invisible to the eye that are inhaled by a child. However, if the cough is prolonged and debilitating, accompanied by chills, headache and loss of appetite, then you need to sound the alarm. It must be remembered that only a pediatrician can prescribe a throat with medications. During treatment, you need to try to translate a dry cough into a wet one, with a relief of sputum removal, you also need to prevent coughing attacks that tire the baby and interfere with sleep.
For starters, you can try the "home" methods. To do this, use honey (a spoonful of honey to relieve pain), hot tea, milk with the addition of butter, inhalation using drinking soda. This treatment of the throat will quickly help get rid of bouts of dry cough. It is especially useful to treat several hours before bedtime. During treatment, the child should be surrounded by the attention of the parents and their care. It is necessary to provide bed rest and sparing nutrition. The air in the room should not be dry, for this you can use humidifiers or just carry out regular wet cleaning. The temperature in the room should be within 20-22 degrees.
Medication for throat. There are several groups of drugs:
• Expectorant and mucolytic. For example, decoctions of thermopsis, marshmallow, thyme, eucalyptus oil. There are also synthetic drugs: "Bromhexine", "Ambroxol", "Carbocysteine".
• Various syrups, lozenges and lozenges. These agents have an enveloping antitussive effect.
A few words about the treatment of the throat in infants.
• You can irrigate the neck with a decoction of calendula or chamomile. To do this, you need to buy a large syringe at the pharmacy and carefully, after removing the needle, carry out irrigation. Do not forget about a plentiful warm drink. You can make chamomile tea (not strong).
• A compress of warm warm cottage cheese is also useful. Fix the compress with a warm scarf and after a few hours change the cottage cheese to warm.
• Rinse with a sage broth (take 2 teaspoons of sage in a glass of water). When rinsing, a warm, but not hot, broth is used.
• A mixture of three tablets of mucaltin, three tablets for cough (so called) and 1 tbsp. l tinctures of licorice root. Crush the tablets, mix with tincture and dissolve all this in 100 g of warm water. Give the child 1 tsp. once every two hours.
• A light massage of the chest and feet can be performed. Exposure to the chest will facilitate sputum discharge, and the feet are a reflexogenic zone. During the massage, you can use herbal balms, such as Doctor Mom and Bronchicum, if they are not allergic.
• Doctors often prescribe Septefril tablets, various syrups and sprays.
Do not forget that the treatment of the throat in an infant can be carried out only after consulting a pediatrician. Firstly, a consultation is needed in order to find out the cause of cough, as it can accompany very serious diseases, such as flu, pleurisy, pertussis, measles, tracheitis, etc. Secondly, each treatment has contraindications and side effects. which the doctor will explain to you. And so that there are no various adverse effects as a result of an incorrect diagnosis or treatment, and you need to seek qualified help from specialists.