The medical term "bronchitis" is understood to mean inflammation of the bronchi, which quite often accompanies colds (such as flu, tracheitis, laryngitis) or is an independent disease of a viral or bacterial origin. As a rule, it is not worth starting an alternative treatment for bronchitis without consulting a doctor, since coughing (which is the main sign when making a diagnosis) can be a symptom of another disease.
Doctor or self-medication?
Basically, the disease begins with malaise, weakness, fever and a nasty dry cough, which quite quickly, within literally a couple of days, turns into wet, i.e. productive. And despite the fact that this disease is quite widespread, especially in the cold season, many are in no hurry to seek medical help, and the acute form becomes chronic with possible subsequent complications. And everything can turn out to be much simpler, and the doctor, after listening to wheezing and making a diagnosis of bronchitis, will select the treatment (medication and other recommendations) for a specific case, which will quickly defeat the disease in its initial manifestations. Most often, a warm and plentiful drink, expectorants and mucolytic drugs, as well as immunostimulants, are prescribed.
Folk recipes
Of course, when bronchitis is detected , treatment at home should combine the doctor’s recommendations and alternative methods that can help quickly alleviate a person’s condition. For example, you can use herbal teas from sage, mint, elderberry, raspberry, linden, coltsfoot; hot milk in combination with honey and soda; black radish juice mixed with honey, badger fat (both externally in the form of grindings and internally with the same hot milk). Sea buckthorn will be good in this case, moreover, both jam that is put in tea and the oil consumed by a teaspoon about half an hour before a meal.
Time-tested inhalations
In addition, as soon as bronchitis begins to appear, treatment at home can begin with the most common and well-known inhalation. To conduct it, you can use even a regular kettle.
However, if a child has to do inhalation, it is best to purchase a modern inhaler to avoid burns. This procedure can be done with the help of herbal decoctions, essential oils or special preparations.
Features of treatment in children
A disease such as bronchitis, the treatment at home of which should be reduced to the implementation of medical prescriptions and bed rest, must be fought, especially in children. Since at a young age this disease can most often have complications, and in infants it can even lead to death. For severe wheezing and lingering cough, the pediatrician may recommend inhalation with special medications such as Ventolin, Berodual, Lazolvan or their analogues. Their action is the rapid removal of bronchospasm, bronchodilator and expectorant abilities. In addition, often with the use of these drugs, the cough goes away completely already on the 4th - 5th day. Although bronchitis, the treatment at home which It was not effective, treated for a fairly long period of time.