To cure a loose cough at the child – not end in itself. It is more important to direct efforts to razzhizhit slime and to facilitate its otkhozhdeniye. Do not self-medicate, you should not experiment on children, follow advice of experienced experts - pediatricians.
Instruction
1. The loose cough is a symptom of such diseases as ORZ, a SARS, bronchitis, pneumonia. It can arise also at allergic cold when slime gets from a nose into a throat. Only the doctor has to make the correct diagnosis, your task is to follow its instructions. It is necessary to treat the main disease. The phlegm at children has viscous structure therefore treatment of a loose cough is in facilitating its otkhozhdeniye. By means of expectorant medicines the created phlegm is diluted, and mucolytics help with formation of slime in case it is not enough for an otkhozhdeniye.
2. Expectorant means can be, both vegetable, and synthetic. Such herbs as a liquorice, coltsfoot are a part of vegetable medicines, devyasit, a sage and many others. Means of synthetic origin also much: it is Bomhexin, Mukobene, "Fervex for cough", "ACC", Lazolvan and so forth. It is better to consult to the doctor before giving to the child any given means.
3. Not always it is necessary to give preference to vegetable medicines as herbs can cause allergies. If the phlegm separates hardly, it will be simpler to cure a loose cough at the child by means of synthetic expectorant means. Especially it concerns such diseases as pneumonia or bronchitis. Anyway you carry out treatment under observation of the doctor.
4. In parallel with the main treatment it is desirable to do grindings of a thorax and a back of the kid and also light massage. It promotes the best otkhozhdeniye of a phlegm. It is necessary to do massage carefully, controlling a condition of the child.
5. Drugs cancel when slime begins to separate actively. From now on the help to the child is in that the kid could be coughed up rather. Do not forbid it to be engaged in easy physical education, to laugh and play. The most important – in everything to observe a measure.