Children can sneeze for various reasons. Some of them - are quite natural. Others are connected with catarrhal diseases and allergic reactions. Newborns often sneeze because of even insufficiently created Eustachian tube.
Instruction
1. Sneezing represents a protective reflex when at the expense of a sharp exhalation from a nasopharynx dust, dirt or slime is removed. At the time of a sneeze the speed of the air exhaled through a nose at the average person can reach 120 meters per second, at the same time particles of slime can be carried on distance to several meters.
2. Children, as well as adults, sneeze for a number of reasons - at cold, strong dust content of the room, impact on a nasopharynx of the irritating substances (for example, dust of black pepper), etc.
3. Newborns can sneeze for other reasons. Pediatricians consider that sneezing of newborns is connected with need to remove slime which collected there during incubation from a nasopharynx. If the newborn sneezes during feeding, it is connected with the fact that at it the Eustachian tube - the channel connecting a throat to a middle ear was not completely created.
4. Usually sneezing of the child is connected with sharp fluctuations of ambient temperature (especially - in case of drafts), too dry or too damp air indoors, viral respiratory infections and catarrhal diseases and also with allergic reactions to hair of pets, pollen of flowers, etc. Some children can sneeze when they look at the sun.
5. If the kid sneezes seldom - most likely, you should not worry because of it. Sneezing allows it to clean airways. Besides, small children cannot independently vysmarkivatsya and by means of sneezing remove the accumulated slime from a nasopharynx.
6. Sometimes sneezing is the first symptom of cold. Usually it is followed by cold, temperature increase and other symptoms. In this case it is possible to improve a condition of the child by means of inhalations. For this purpose it is enough to put leaves of a camomile, an eucalyptus or mint in a pan and to fill in them with boiled water. Let's the child breathe the steam rising over a pan. In addition, it is possible to use also special inhalers through which it is necessary to inhale a nose steam with the essential oils which are used at treatment of catarrhal diseases.
7. To save the kid from sneezing if it is not connected with an infection, it is necessary to air periodically the room, to carry out damp cleaning, to walk more often with it on the street and to give vitamins.
8. In case of cold the child is recommended to wash a nose with physiological solution and to use the vasoconstrictive medicines recommended by the pediatrician.