If the child had a loose cough - it is not a reason for concern. The loose cough is already following stage after dry, its emergence demonstrates that the kid was on the mend. In the course of a phlegm expectoration the airways are cleaned from slime and bacteria.
Instruction
1. For treatment of a loose cough use the means facilitating clarification of bronchial tubes from a phlegm. Expectorant medicines, and also various mucolytics concern them. Among means of plant origin syrups on the basis of a root of a licorice, an anise, a sage, a camomile, mint, and with combinations of these herbs are effective. Give otkharkavayushchy syrups to children on a teaspoon at meal time or in 2 hours after meal.
2. As for synthetic mukolitichesky means, the most effective are containing atsetiltsistein. To children 12 years are more senior give it on 200 mg 3 times a day. Give the medicines containing karbotsistein to children up to 5 years 2 times a day on a teaspoon, to children 5 years-3 times on a teaspoon are more senior. The medicines containing Ambroxol a hydrochloride and Bromhexine a hydrochloride have high efficiency. Give them to the child according to age dosages.
3. For strengthening of blood circulation of the upper airways and improvement of an otkhozhdeniye of a phlegm use inhalations. Perform them before going to bed, or after walk, anyway after inhalation the child should not be in the cold room or breathe cold air. You carry out inhalations in an hour after a meal. If you have no special inhaler, use a usual teapot and a cardboard funnel through which the kid will inhale fumes. Do not fill in boiled water in a teapot at all. Wrap up the kid in a blanket and start the procedure. Its duration should not exceed 5 minutes. Use for inhalations of means, containing abroksol a hydrochloride. For this purpose dissolve 7.5 mg of medicine in 1 liter of hot water.
4. In order that the phlegm departed better, massage a breast and the child's back easy movements. The direction of movements has to be from the bases of lungs to their tops, in the direction of the movement of air during an exhalation. Especially it helps babies. Well grinding with the warming ointment helps. Track that your child drank as much as possible: cook to him compote, make hips. Warm and plentiful drink promotes a fast otkhozhdeniye of a phlegm.