When Your Child Coughs - What Home Remedy Do You Apply? In Autumn And Winter Or Cold, Babies And Children Contract Cough Too Easily. What can you do to reduce the cough and when do you go to the doctor? This And More I Address In This Post.
Why does your child cough?
Coughing is caused by the common cold virus. And while it may sound serious, in most cases coughing is only good. By coughing , the body cleans the airways: dust and mucus disappear from the windpipe, throat and lungs.
Often the virus will pass after a week or two, at most three. Is your child under three months old, does he get stuffy, drowsy, short of breath, does he get a fever and / or does he barely drink? Then it is wise to go to the doctor.
When Your Child Coughs - What Home Remedy Do You Apply?
These are useful cough remedies for your child
A. Precaution
1. Provide clean air and as little dust as possible in the house. Do not smoke in the house.
2. Make sure your child drinks enough.
3. Is your child under 12 years old? Then do not use codeine-containing products.
5. Is the coughing accompanied by a sore throat? Give your child something cold to drink or an ice cream. A pain reliever before bed or before drinking can also help. Children from 1 year can be given (tea with) a spoonful of honey.
6. Does your child also have a stuffy nose ? Use a saline solution suitable for children. Steaming can also reduce symptoms in older children.
Be careful not to burn with hot steam and only use water without anything in it. Ingredients like menthol can be dangerous or irritating to young children.
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B. What Can You Do To Reduce Coughing?
1. Let your child eat ice creams that will ease the pain
2. From 1 year you can give your child tea with a spoonful of honey
3. Boil 200 ml of water, add three tablespoons of honey and three tablespoons of sugar and let your child take a small sip every now and then. Very sweet, but it works.
4. Cut an onion into pieces and place them next to your child's bed overnight. I bet he doesn't have an itchy cough
5. Mix honey, lemon and a little cinnamon together and let him/her lick the solution from time to time.
C. Cough Syrups
Cough syrups, such as marshmallow, can have a soothing effect. The disadvantage is that it often contains a lot of sugar. Sugar-free variants are usually not suitable for babies and children under 3 years old.
If your child suffers from a dry tickly cough, cough drinks with noscapine can help: this medicine has a soothing effect and suppresses the cough stimulus. Cough drinks with noscapine can be used without a prescription in children from 3 years old, with a prescription for children from 1 year old.
Cough potions and bromhexine tablets intended to cough up tough mucus have not been shown to work. These remedies are not suitable for children under 2 years old.
RS virus
Young children, especially babies between 2 and 5 months, can become very sick from the so - called RS virus (respiratory syncytial virus). This virus, which mainly occurs in autumn and winter or cold season, causes respiratory infections.
It starts with a cold and a cough. Usually the virus heals on its own, but sometimes the symptoms get worse. Your child will become increasingly tight and short of breath, will cough more, develop a fever, barely drink and then have to go to the hospital.
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When Did Go And See A Doctor?
Get emergency medical help if your child:
a. is stuffy or makes a wheezing breath. In babies who are stuffy, nostrils can move with breathing and the muscles contract between the ribs;
b. is younger than 3 months and has a cough;
c. coughing up bloody mucus;
d. is drowsy;
e. temporarily stops breathing.
f. coughing for more than 3 weeks;
g. has a fever for more than 3 days above 38 degrees (in babies younger than 3 months immediately if you notice a fever);
h. cough and is born prematurely or has a reduced resistance;
i. cries inconsolably.
Conclusion
When your baby coughs, the first thing to do is not to call the Doctor. Applying the above home remedies is like a first aid for your child. This is better that keeping the child till when the doctor is available to attend to him/her.
These home remedies should not be use to replace the function of the doctor. When any of the lines under the heading 'When To See The Doctor happens' then be very quick to see the doctor.
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