Most often , a child's barking cough appears with false croup, laryngitis, which is very difficult. Children have a narrow larynx and trachea, so there is a risk of swelling of the mucosa to completely clog the lumen and lead to suffocation. As a result of swelling of the vocal cords, the voice becomes hoarse, wheezing, shortness of breath appears. With the accumulation of sputum, an attack may suddenly develop, when the body temperature rises, the barking cough intensifies and choking develops. The disease is paroxysmal in nature, but treatment should be carried out only by a doctor.
At the time of the attack before the ambulance arrives, the parent of the child themselves can alleviate his condition. At normal body temperature, you can put the baby under a not very hot shower, make baths for hands and feet in warm water, apply a compress to the neck area. Inhalation with drinking soda over a teapot and drinking warm milk with soda helps. Perfectly calms the baby and facilitates the course of the attack the next way. Place the baby in the bathroom above the basin of hot water, and let it cushion with moist steam. During this time, you need to ventilate the room, but you should not put the child to bed until the doctor arrives, so that there is no respiratory arrest in a dream.
With false croup, you can give your child an antihistamine in the form of a syrup or powder solution from a crushed tablet with water. Abundantly drink the baby is not worth it, because this will lead to increased swelling. It must be reassured, picked up, distracted by reading or telling stories, singing songs.
In order to correctly treat a barking cough in a child, the doctor needs to establish the type of pathogen and prescribe treatment. You can independently brew the patient herbs with a high content of vitamin C, diuretic and diaphoretic herbs. Make teas with cranberries and viburnum, cranberries, rose hips, linden. It is impossible to use herbs for expectoration of sputum and cough treatment without a doctor's prescription.
If a barking cough in a child is decided to be treated at home, then parents are required to provide him with proper care. Constantly ventilate the room, follow all the doctor's recommendations, often carry out wet cleaning, monitor the baby’s nutrition, give a lot of fluids, fruits and vegetables so that there are forces to fight the disease.
With pharyngitis, a barking cough in a child is very exhausting. Therefore, to facilitate the well-being of the baby several times a day, inhalations with eucalyptus and essential oils through the spout of the teapot should be given, and mukaltin should be given at night so that the child sleeps and rests.
In acute laryngotracheitis, it is necessary to turn a dry cough into a wet one and stop taking expectorants, leaving the cough to remove bacteria from the body. With prolonged continued use of cough suppressants, they themselves can provoke it. To prevent this from happening, parents need to give the child a chest massage, put mustard plasters, rub the baby's chest and back, and soar the legs.
It is dangerous to treat a dry barking cough in a child alone, because it can be one of the symptoms of whooping cough or diphtheria. These are childhood infections that have a specific treatment. Therefore, you should not risk the health of the baby and miss precious time, but it is better to consult a doctor
Children often stuff small objects in their nose and mouth. Sometimes this leads to the fact that they enter the upper respiratory tract. And when a foreign body enters the trachea and bronchi, a barking cough also develops in the child. An X-ray study is performed to detect the item, followed by surgery.
Parents need to remember that a barking cough in children, the treatment of which should always be carried out only by a doctor, can occur with pneumonia and tuberculosis, with ascariasis of the lungs (helminth infestation, which is often found in children) and with allergies. Therefore, before starting treatment, it is necessary to conduct an examination with a pediatrician, ENT doctor and allergist. If necessary, seek the help of a TB doctor or infectious disease specialist.