Children's cough – the phenomenon quite frequent, and it can develop at the child of any age. It arises as a reflex on irritation of tracheas, a bronchial tree or a throat.
When developing cough the mucous membrane is affected by congestions of viruses, allergens, foreign matters. This process releases airways, cleans them. Cough is dry and wet. Dry usually arises at a SARS, an initial stage of pneumonia, whooping cough, pleurisy, bronchial asthma. Wet appears at the majority of wet bronchitis, pneumonia and some forms of tuberculosis.
Food and child care during a disease
Quicker regular airing of the room in which there is a sick child, absence in tobacco smoke, moistening in the room of air, a vykladyvaniye of babies on a stomach (at the same time there is a stimulation of process of an otkharkivaniye of a phlegm), vibration massage of a thorax, respiratory gymnastics will help to cope with cough. You can ask the child to inflate balloons, to blow through a tubule in glass with water that on a surface bubbles emerged. It is useful for the coughing children to eat liquid porridge, potatoes puree with a large number of milk. An effective remedy at a similar disease are grapes as it heals lungs, promote a phlegm otkharkivaniye. It is possible to use grapes juice with one teaspoon of honey. It is not necessary to give to the child the sweet drinks which are especially aerated. Besides, try to exclude from a diet of the kid of candy and other sweet products. From medicines Linkas, "Gedelix", Sinekod, Bronkhipret, Erespal and other means will help with fight against children's cough. However they have age restrictions and contraindications therefore it is possible to apply them only after consultation at your attending physician.
House cough remedies
Infusion alteya is rather effective cure for children's cough. Medicinal alteya it is necessary to draw a spoon of a small leaf in a thermos one hour, having filled in with a glass of boiled water. To give to the sick child on a teaspoon each 6 hours. For inhalations it is possible to use leaves or oil of an eucalyptus. Make infusion in a circle, curtail a funnel the sheet of paper. Put on wide edge of a funnel a mug, through narrow edge the child has to inhale steam. The severe cough will calm and mineral water with milk will cure. In a glass it is necessary to pour in half in hot milk and alkaline water. Hot milk with a spoon of honey will help when for cough begins to tickle in a throat. It is better for kids to add a fig to warm milk. Other tasty medicine for which preparation you need to mix 100 g of honey and butter will please children, to add there a vanillin bag, it is good to mix. Give such means to children on 1 teaspoon a day.