2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
The baby is coughing. Parents see bronchitis in a child, the signs of which they already recognize, since the baby is sick not for the first time. Do I need to see a doctor or can I fight the disease myself with the help of medical and folk remedies?
Child's cough
If a child has a cough, parents should not show any initiative. The doctor should confirm that it is bronchitis in a child, the signs and symptoms of which are sometimes ambiguous. Even if parents are 100% sure of the disease they have already encountered, you should not neglect the opinion of a specialist. The pediatrician will listen to the baby's chest with a stethoscope and draw conclusions based on the examination. Let relatives know how the disease proceeds, but without knowledge of the nature of bronchitis, adequate treatment cannot be prescribed. You may need to take an additional x-ray to make sure it's not pneumonia.
What is bronchitis?
Bronchitis is any lesion of the bronchi, regardless of the reason for which it arose. Cough canappear after a bacterial or viral infection, due to allergies, when exposed to certain toxic substances.
Sometimes bronchitis occurs as an underlying disease. In some cases, coughing is a side effect of certain childhood infections, such as whooping cough.
The disease can be classified as follows:
- acute bronchitis;
- obstructive;
- acute bronchiolitis - inflammation of the small bronchi.
How can bronchitis be distinguished from other diseases? Symptoms in children Komarovsky, a well-known Ukrainian pediatrician, described as follows:
- bronchitis begins with a dry cough and exhausts the patient at night;
- cough changes shape and gradually becomes wet;
- Fever and headache are characteristic of onset;
- cough lasts for weeks or more than a month.
Bronchitis treatment
The main thing that a doctor should understand when diagnosing bronchitis in a child whose signs are clearly manifested is the cause of the disease. Each form of bronchitis is treated individually.
You may need antibiotics and antibacterials, medicines to reduce the temperature. Small children can be given syrup in syrup or rectal suppositories.
Then, antitussive drugs are required, which at the initial stage should fight a dry cough, and then help in thinning the sputum and with its discharge.
As a remedy for dry coughuse syrups "Sinekod", "Gerbion", "Stoptusin". To facilitate expectoration, drugs "Muk altin", "Ambrobene" and others are taken. The choice of any drug is determined by the condition and age of the child.
In case bronchitis is allergic, antihistamines are used and try to identify and remove the allergen. To do this, they analyze what has appeared at home in the last 2 months? Did you buy a toy of unknown origin, new bedding, put a T-shirt with a bright smelling pattern on the baby, purchased an unfamiliar washing powder?
Disease prevention
Evgeny Olegovich Komarovsky believes that the prevention of bronchitis in children is a very important aspect of recovery.
- The air in the room should never be too dry, for this you should buy a humidifier or put a basin of water under the battery.
- The room is regularly ventilated.
- You need to walk with a he althy child in the fresh air and not along the gassed streets, but in the nearest park or square.
- Make sure that the baby's nose is not clogged, clear it of mucus.
- The baby needs to include vegetables and fruits in the diet.
And most importantly: when a child has bronchitis, signs of illness are on the face, the disease needs to be treated, even if it proceeds without fever. Running bronchitis can turn into obstructive, and then cause bronchial asthma. Getting rid of this serious disease is not so easy.
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