Even such, apparently, banal disease as cold at children, unlike adults, is rather serious. Cold is especially dangerous to babies as they have narrow nasal passes that even small hypostasis of a mucous membrane leads to sharp violation of breath.
Because of anatomo-physiological features of the structure of a cavity of a nose and an acoustical pipe the cold at children of early age quite often is complicated by otitis. Therefore it is important to know what actions should be undertaken at cold. In most cases cold – the main symptom of a set of widespread respiratory infections. The cause of rhinitis children can have an allergy or pollution of the surrounding external environment.
For babies sometimes treatment of rhinitis demands active intervention and hospitalization. Cold, as a rule, does not demand special treatment from the senior children as it is only a symptom of a respiratory infection which reason viruses most often are. Treatment of such cold is based by the general rules of treatment of ORZ. If rhinitis accompanies a bacterial disease, for example a tonsillitis or tonsillitis, naturally, antibiotics are appointed.
At an initial stage of cold it is necessary to take care of purity of air in the house. Are important: regular airing, damp cleaning, elimination of foreign smells and active moistening of air. The child with cold also needs the strengthened drinking mode (especially if there is temperature) to fill liquid loss. In the absence of temperature, thermal procedures in the form of foot or general bathtubs and a shower as they reflex remove hypostasis mucous a nose are useful and facilitate breath. It is also necessary regularly (4-6 times a day) to use means for moistening and clarification of a cavity of a nose. They facilitate a slime otkhozhdeniye. At congestion of a nose it is possible to apply vasoconstrictive medicines (drops or nasal spray) to simplification of breath. But it must be kept in mind that they do not treat cold, and only for a while liquidate hypostasis mucous a nose. 5-7 days should not exceed duration of use of vasoconstrictive medicines, and dig in them in a nose better not regularly, and only on demand (when it is absolutely difficult to breathe), no more than 2-3 times a day.