If the disease is not treated correctly, it drags on for weeks, or even months. So that it does not develop into a more serious, chronic form, it is necessary to understand the causes of coughing, to understand whether it is necessary to deal with it and how. According to doctors, coughing is the body’s defense that helps clear the airways of pathogenic microbes or various foreign objects. Cough in itself is not considered a disease, but it clearly indicates that not everything is all right with the body.
A persistent barking or dry cough is a symptom of such forms of ARI as pharyngitis, laryngitis or tracheitis. Therefore, it is necessary to treat not the cough itself, but the underlying disease that causes it. If the baby is prone to allergic diseases, then a barking cough may also be observed in the child. How to treat it in order to avoid further bronchial asthma? Here, the help of a doctor is simply necessary.
Often children cough due to dust, food, or small foreign particles in their throats. Even too dry air or various chemicals or household products can cause painful coughing attacks.
How to treat a
barking cough in a child? First of all, you need to show the baby to the doctor. It is he who, having carried out additional studies if necessary, can establish the real cause of the disease and advise what should be done so that the cough comes out sputum. After all, it is the transition of a barking cough into a cough with the release of sputum that indicates the beginning of recovery.
Very often, doctors do not recommend too much getting involved in various drugs if there is a dry, barking cough in a child. What to treat? To suppress the strong, painful seizures that occur with a cold, only antitussive drugs will help. By acting on certain areas of the brain that are responsible for coughing, medications reduce their sensitivity. If the cough is barking, then the child should not take any expectorant or mucolytic drugs during this period.
Very effective remedies are drugs based on medicinal plants that help to cure a barking cough in a child. How to treat and what should be done if a persistent cough persists for a long time? For example, give the baby a syrup made from licorice root.
Herbs such as thyme, coltsfoot, plantain and others will also help cough. Ready-made medicinal
breast collections can be found at any pharmacy.
For various diseases of the respiratory tract, doctors recommend inhalation, especially when a barking cough is observed in a child. What to treat? The usual mineral water! Such inhalations with mineral water soften the cough and ease the baby's condition.
Ginger is a miracle cure when it is impossible to cure a barking cough in a child. How to treat - you ask? Tea or a ginger root drink mixed with lemon juice and honey. Pour such a mixture with boiling water - and after 20 minutes the healing tea is ready. Both tasty and healthy! Sometimes you can replace a lemon with an orange, and honey with sugar. The quality of treatment will not be affected.