About the onset of cold weather the little children often catch a cold, appear the cough and cold demanding immediate treatment. The main instrument of fight against these unpleasant illnesses are inhalations with medicinal solutions. Advantages of this method of treatment is that the evaporated medicines get to the defeat center quicker, there are no painful feelings and collateral reactions.
Thermal control of a body at newborns is not established yet, and the immunity is poorly developed therefore change of weather, air fall of temperature often causes cold. It is difficult to reveal symptoms in such children since the kid will not be able to complain of irritation, a sore throat or congestion of a nose.
At kids about one year the symptoms of cold appear suddenly, but attentive mothers can notice early changes in a condition of the kid. The getting sick kid often is capricious, cries, sleeps badly. Cold at the kid begins sharp temperature increase up to 39 degrees. The child refuses food, at him cheeks redden, cough, mucous allocations from a nose, breath difficulty develops.
The most effective and safe treatment for the kid are inhalations. They are very effective in treatment of catarrhal and viral diseases. The evaporating medicinal substances get on affected areas of mucous at once. Holding this procedure does not create discomfort to the kid, and at the correct approach it can be turned into a game.
Inhalations have no contraindications, except for individual intolerance the kid of the separate components which are contained in medicinal solutions. But it is possible to cope with this problem easily, there is a set of "grandmother's" means with which do inhalations. For little children of inhalation it is necessary to do on the basis of the fast-evaporating remedies, for example, it is possible to use radio menthol or eucalyptus oils, broth of a camomile, a sage or needles of coniferous trees.
Inhalations with solution of the baking soda or medicinal mineral water sold in pharmacies are very effective.
Parents have to know how it is correct to carry out inhalations. It is impossible to do it at the boiling water at all. For performing inhalations the kid can use a small teapot with a long nose. In it pour hot water with the temperature about 40 wasps that the child did not burn. Add medicinal broth or essential oils to water, put on the tubule curtailed from the sheet of paper a nose. Through it the kid will inhale medical fumes within 3 minutes. Inhalations carry out no more than 2 times a day, in 2‒2,5 hours after a meal.
Little children do not like to carry out this boring procedure therefore during inhalation they need to be interested in something, for example, to tell the fairy tale or to invent a story somehow connected with the procedure.
For very little children it is better to use special nebulizers in which medicinal solutions do not heat up, and are sprayed under the influence of ultrasound. Inhalation of medicines happens through a mask, at the usual mode of breath. Parents can control process on an aerosol cloudlet. Inhalations are very effective at treatment of catarrhal, viral diseases, bronchitis and also asthma and other respiratory diseases. Inhalation of medicinal vapors promotes fluidifying of a phlegm, humidifies mucous and facilitates breath, eliminates inflammation, puffiness and accelerates recovery.