A healthy person does not have snot. This is a well-known fact, confirmed by ENT doctors. The nasopharynx is arranged in such a way that there is a mucous membrane on its surface that produces a secret. It is thanks to the mucus intended to perform protective functions that aerosols, foreign particles, bacteria and viruses do not penetrate the body of a healthy person.
Of course, this is an excellent protective shell, but from time to time there are situations due to which the mucous membrane ceases to perform the necessary functions. So, if it was damaged due to some disease, discharge begins to come out of the nasal cavity, which are characterized by different thickness and color and directly depend on the type of ailment. There are many reasons for your children to have a runny nose. It can even be caused by a regular walk through the fresh air in damp spring weather or in the winter season. Agree that even a slight hypothermia can cause a catarrhal disease.
In addition, if your kids like to shout in cold weather outside - this is the closest way to hypothermia, which will lead to a runny nose. If after another walk you find that snot appeared in children, remember about timely treatment. In no case do not put off this process until later. Never forget that even the most common runny nose and white snot with untimely treatment can lead to serious diseases, for example, sinusitis, frontal sinusitis or sinusitis.
What needs to be done to protect the child from a cold?The very first thing you need to do is pay attention to comfortable clothes and warm waterproof shoes. Watch during your walk so that your child does not sweat much. And if upon arrival at home you find that the baby’s legs are wet, you need to take measures as soon as possible: before going to bed, drink milk with honey and steam in hot water to soak your feet. If you do these procedures on time, the baby does not face any runny nose. Snot in children is a rather unpleasant phenomenon that brings concern to both the babies themselves and the mother. Therefore, so that they do not appear, it is necessary to constantly strengthen the child’s immunity with the help of proper nutrition, which includes all the necessary products, namely meat, fish, fruits and vegetables.
How to treat green snot in children? Folk methods
Among the popular methods of treatment, the safest for children is considered to be inhalation from such herbs: bay leaf, chamomile, eucalyptus, sage, mint. In addition, the following procedure helps a lot: you cook potatoes and let your child breathe over it. This is fraught with the fact that hot steam gets on the eyes and face of the baby. Therefore, you must either somehow cover them, or purchase a special inhaler. You can also use an ordinary kettle. Through his nose you can carry out a full-fledged procedure. An ordinary heating pad, filled with a special solution, can also serve for inhalation with decoctions of herbs. So you will help your kids safely, quickly warm up the airways and forget what snot in children is. Another effective treatment for the common cold, giving a good therapeutic effect, is warming with dry heat. Coarse salt, heated in a pan, or two hard-boiled eggs are tied in a scarf or a dense linen cloth, which is folded in several layers, and applied to the baby's nose.
So you can warm up the nose and
sinuses well. But such thermal procedures can be performed without consulting a doctor observing the child if he does not have chronic or purulent diseases of the nose, for example, purulent sinusitis, frontal sinusitis or sinusitis.
Snot in children is an unpleasant and rather uncomfortable phenomenon in the life of both the baby and the mother. But if you do not let the process go by chance, then avoid unpleasant processes in the future.