Don't make this mistake in the treatment of cough in children! Dr. Komorowski urges.

Very often parents make the mistake ofthinking that the cough in children is a problem that can easily cope on their own. They just go to the drugstore and buy some cough medicine, unaware of the harm it causes to the baby.

"Within the hour I was in a room with a working TV. Within 8 hours I saw the advertising of medicines, which, according to the manufacturer, it is imperative to ingest at the onset of cough. Nerves can not stand to listen to this divorce! People, listen up!", says Dr. Komarovsky.





How to treat a bad cough

1. Most advertised on TV drugs "cough" is expectorants, or mucolytics. The main function of these drugs is to increase mucus and make it more liquid, fluid, which theoretically facilitates its expectoration.
   
   
   When a child nasmork, cough and fever, is a disease of the upper respiratory tract. Why increase the amount of mucus in the lungs, when the baby has a cold or sore throat?
2. Expectorants are sometimes necessary in certain diseases of the lower respiratory tract: bronchitis, pneumonia. They must be of plant origin! But these diseases should be treated by doctors, not people who watch too much TV.
   
   
   
3. Your baby's cough is much weaker than in adults. After taking expectorants, children are often unable to cough up the increased amount of sputum. It is not surprising that in many countries, mucolytics are not recommended to give children under 5 years, and assign them to children under 2 years old is generally a crime.
   
   
   
4. How to treat a dry cough? Perfect carrot juice, always fresh, in the proportion of one to one with milk. Come on 4-5 times a day. Also Sapareva teas from the berries of viburnum.
5. Remember that an effective impact on sputum even the most modern drugs is impossible without the observance of two mandatory conditions: mode cool clear air (16-20 °C) and sufficient amount of drinking warm liquids. Watch the humidity in the baby's room! It should be 40-70 %. After all, the stuffy room is the easiest way to organize complications. But if in addition to this a stuffy nose, and increased body temperature, the chances to turn a common cold into monthly treatment pneumonia maximum.
   
   
   
   
   
6. It should be noted that self-medication antitussive drugs can be very dangerous. Cough is known to be not just an unpleasant symptom. This is one of the most important ways of the body to achieve purification of the lungs. The suppression of cough may lead to accumulation of phlegm in the lungs, which in turn, with a high degree of probability can lead to bronchitis or pneumonia, disruption of ventilation and other troubles. Their abuse leads to deterioration of the liver and kidneys.
   
   
   
   
   
7. The use of cough remedies for treating wet cough is contraindicated. As mentioned above, suppression of the cough will only aggravate the disease, because these drugs contribute to the settling of phlegm.
   
   
   

A banal truth, but where did it go: not self-medicate! No cough should be treated, and a specific disease, a symptom which a cough is.

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