Sometimes not so much the disease exhausts the child and parents who are looking after him how many the sleepless nights accompanied with the exhausting cough. In such situation it is necessary immediately will see a doctor that he could establish the true cause of night cough and to appoint treatment.
It is required to you
- - hips;
- - camomile;
- - guelder-rose;
- - raspberry;
- - sea-buckthorn;
- - thyme;
- - calendula;
- - mint;
- - salt solution;
- - kalanchoe;
- - pine needles (kidneys);
- - sage;
- - fennel seeds;
- - linden flowers;
- - soda;
- - milk;
- - honey.
Instruction
1. In certain cases the allergy can become the reason of appearance of night cough. Attentively look narrowly at your kid. If fits of coughing amplify, it has to lay down only in the bed, eyes begin to water, puffiness appears, surely carry out survey of the baby in the allergologichesky center. By its results to you recommendations about child care will be made and, if necessary, the course of treatment is appointed.
2. Most often viral infection is the cause of cough. Its aggravation is directly connected at night with the fact that in a prone position there are skaplivany phlegms and for its removal the kid should cough much more often, than it occurs in the afternoon. Strengthening of cough is promoted also by dry air in the room and also the stuffy nose of the baby forcing it to breathe through the mouth.
3. To facilitate a condition of the child, make in the evening in his room damp cleaning, and before going to bed air the room a little. Put to the kid higher pillow, change his situation during sleep more often. It will interfere with a phlegm congestion.
4. Let's the baby drink more liquid during the day. Best of all warm broth from hips, camomile infusion, tea with raspberry, a guelder-rose, a sea-buckthorn, etc. will be suitable for this purpose.
5. Surely clean nasal passes of the child before going to bed: carefully wash them with special salt solution and ask the kid to blow the nose well, or remove slime from a nose by means of the small syringe. Instead of salt solution it is possible to use broth of a camomile, thyme, a calendula, mint (1 tsp on a glass of boiled water).
6. Well kalanchoe juice helps to clean a nose. Wring out juice from a fresh leaf of a kalanchoe and dig it to the baby on 2-3 drops in each nostril. Irritating mucous a nose, juice causes sneezing as a result of which the nasal courses will be cleaned.
7. Make to the child (is more senior than half a year) steam inhalation. In a small pan bring 250-300 ml of water to boiling, add to boiled water a tablespoon of pine needles (or kidneys) and in 3-4 minutes disconnect gas. Give to broth 7-10 minutes will infuse, previously having covered a pan.
8. Later the put time, bring it to the room to the kid, put on a table (chair) and uncover (the distance from a bed to the container with broth has to be 60-90 cm). As soon as steam going from broth becomes warm, rearrange a pan on a small stool about a crib (at distance of 30-40 cm). By means of a diaper (bed-sheet) direct warm steam to the baby to the person. Duration of such procedure is 10-12 minutes.
9. Inhalations with use of alkaline solution (0.5 tsps of soda on 0.2 l of water) and also grass broths on the basis of a sage, seeds of fennel, linden flowers, etc. are not less effective (1 tablespoon on a glass of water).
10. If the kid woke up, give to drink him hot milk with honey. At a severe cough give the protivokashlevy means which is written out by the doctor.
11. Watch the child carefully. If all your efforts do not give to him relief for the 2-3rd day, repeatedly see a doctor.
12. Do not try to treat yours the baby independently. Surely coordinate the actions with the pediatrician.