The child coughs. Character of cough and ways of treatment

Children often catch cold. In this case, the symptoms can be very diverse. But cough occurs in most small patients.

This is a response of the body, more precisely a certain area of ​​the brain, and it is aimed at restoring the patency of the airways( DP).Cough itself is not a disease. However, its appearance should be taken seriously. What to do when the baby coughs? Let's look at this article.

Predisposing factors of

The prerequisites for this pathology may be different. Classify cough pathological and physiological.

Physiological - a common phenomenon in everyday life, with its help the body cleans DP from accumulated sputum or foreign bodies. As a rule, it is rare and short-lived in the absence of other signs of illness. For those who started coughing up with a child, it is advisable to observe: measure the temperature, monitor the mood, appetite. In case of a fever, a cold, diarrhea and other things it is better to consult a pediatrician for advice. This may mean that the child has ARVI.

Komarovsky is a very famous children's pediatrician. He gives different advice to parents. The specialist confirms that the atopic cough is more often a symptom of a respiratory system disease( sore throats, bronchitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis).Depending on the nature of the disease, such an ailment can have a different nature.

What is bronchospasm?

This is a fairly common phenomenon in children, accompanied by a cough. Bronchospasm - narrowing of the bronchi. This condition occurs with obstructive bronchitis, bronchial asthma, blockage of DP with phlegm, swallowed foreign objects, liquids. Vegetable pollen, animal hair and other household allergens also become common causes of cough in children. When they are eliminated, it passes.

When is the baby still coughing?

Particular danger is represented by conditions caused by the presence of a foreign body in the DP.With their blockage, a strong cough, accompanied by signs of suffocation. Skin covers at the same time turn blue, consciousness is disturbed, breathing is difficult, voice is absent. In this case, you need to quickly remove the foreign body and show the child to the doctor.

Glaive invasion

A persistent but not severe cough, often a symptom of helminthic invasion. Larvae of some parasites develop in the lung tissue, then irritate DP, with a cough get into the mouth. Further they penetrate the digestive tract, where their cycle repeats.

But most often the baby coughs up because of a cold. About this further.

Colds

Acute respiratory infections are the most common diseases accompanied by a cough.

Symptoms:

• cough develops from a few hours to several days;

• temperature over 37 degrees, runny nose, general weakness, restless child, capricious, refuses to eat;

• over time, the character of the cough changes( from dry to wet).

All these phenomena are accompanied by a sore throat, an osseousness in the voice.

What cough is pertussis in a child? These are spastic seizures, a kind of distinctive feature of this disease. At the same time, exhalations follow each other, as individual respiratory tremors and convulsive wheezing. The inhalation is replaced by an exhalation with jerky movements. The attack is accompanied by excitement.

Loud coughing occurs with tracheitis. In this case, it is accompanied by severe pain behind the sternum. Thoracic, loud, painless, with wet wheezing cough - a sign of bronchitis. The clinical picture is supplemented by the presence of a large amount of sputum.

The causes of cough in children we have considered. How to help?

First Aid Assistance

The kid needs to provide peace and plenty of drink to prevent dehydration.

When coughing infectious nature, foot baths with mustard are good, after keeping the foot bath warm( wear woolen socks), you can put mustard plasters. A good folk remedy is to drink warm milk with warm mineral water( half a glass).Not bad help steam inhalation. But it should be remembered that at a temperature to do steam inhalations, put mustard plasters and soar legs is contraindicated.

What if the baby coughs up for a long time?

Therapy

The medication should be taken when the condition is disturbed and the overall condition of the baby worsens.

A dry, obtrusive cough in children in the first year of life is associated with an increase in the viscosity of phlegm. There are special means designed for its dilution.

Intensive, debilitating moist cough accompanied by vomiting and sleep disturbance, requires suppressive reflex therapy.

To assign the right drugs, it is important to correctly diagnose, assess the condition, its duration and intensity, the presence of bronchospasm, and so on. Do not self-medicate, becauseyou can inadvertently cause harm. For this it is necessary to consult a district pediatrician. SARS recommends that Komarovsky be treated promptly.

Mucolytic drugs or thinning phlegm help to remove it. The most famous ones are Bromgexin, Ambroxol, Mukaltin. Children from 3 years with a dry cough appointed "Broncholitin", and from 1 year - the drug on a plant-based basis "Gedelix."

If the ailment is accompanied by bronchospasm, bronchodilators( "Eufillin", "Theophylline") are used.

Treatment of a baby with respiratory infection is carried out with combined medications, such as: "Kodelak Fito", "Doctor Mom".They relieve inflammation, dilute sputum.

But before therapy it is necessary to establish the causes of cough in children.

Home Therapy?

In home treatment, steam inhalations are successfully used with the addition of medicines or herbs. They contribute to the reduction of irritation of the nasopharyngeal mucosa and the oropharynx. It is possible to use enveloping agents in the form of tablets for resorption, syrups or tea. Since ancient times, the following medicinal plants have been known for their expectorant abilities: leaf of mother-and-stepmother, plantain, althae, violet, anise, thyme, ledum, oregano, elecampane, thermopsis, pine buds, licorice root, etc.

They are effective when the child constantly podkoshlivaet.

Other tools

A special diet will help fast and effective treatment. In the diet should include a variety of porridge, cabbage, mashed potatoes. It works well as an expectorant for grapes and its juice( mix 1 cup of grape juice with honey and add the lemon milled with peel).

This will make you feel better if your baby coughs up, as if it were a sore throat.

To reduce intoxication and increase the resistance of the body, phytotherapy helps.

Compresses

There are different types of them. Compresses can be cold and hot, alcohol and oil, dry and water. By their warming action, compresses promote blood circulation in the place of application. This leads to a reduction in inflammation and pain. The purpose of compresses is conducted by a doctor. It is not recommended to put them on their own. Contraindications to the use of compresses is the presence of various skin diseases.

Inhalations

Parents often consult a doctor when the baby coughs. Than to treat the given pathology?

Inhalations in the home are carried out with the help of improvised means, and with the use of special inhalers. Penetrating with steam in DP, drugs reduce cough, clear of germs and toxins.

Children under 3 years of age should not be inhaled.there is a risk of bronchospasm. The course of treatment with inhalations 5-10 procedures for 10 minutes. In some cases, their number can be increased.

Another recipe: using a small amount of water, cook potatoes in a uniform. Then inhale the vapors of potato steam for 15 min. This remedy works well when the baby is constantly coughing up.

You can use medicinal herbs for inhalations: chamomile leaves, thyme, coltsfoot. Pour the grass with boiling water, you can add a couple of teaspoons of soda, a drop of eucalyptus oil or geranium. Iodine can be added to the inhalation, but with caution.it can cause allergies in children.

Sandstones and cans

Effective action is rendered with mustard plasters. Mustard oil contained in them irritates the nerve endings on the skin, reflexively improves blood circulation at the site, causing a warming effect, increases metabolism, bioactive substances that help fight infection and relieve pain. But success depends on what kind of the nature of the child's coughing.

Usually, the mustard plasters are placed on the back under the shoulder blades, between the shoulder blades, in front of the chest, while avoiding the heart area.

The time of action of mustard plasters for children depends on their age and, of course, individual sensitivity. Children from 1 to 3 years mustard plasters put no more than 2 minutes, children from 4 to 7 years for 3 minutes, from 8 years to 12 times the procedure up to 10 minutes. You can not use mustard at a temperature of more than 37.5 ° C, children with various skin diseases, an individual intolerance to mustard.

Previously, special heating banks were very popular. They put them usually on the back, thereby improving circulation and heating. To date, the setting of cans by pediatricians is not recommended, especially for very young children, becausethe skin is seriously injured. There may even be severe burns.