Physical saline for children's inhalations

Procedures such as inhalation, help in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract and their prevention. For their implementation, a nebulizer is usually used - a device in which a liquid drug becomes an aerosol. Getting into the children's body, this aerosol affects the respiratory organs and accelerates recovery. One of the most common drugs used for therapeutic and prophylactic inhalation is saline.

Saline is an aqueous solution of sodium chloride with a concentration of 0.9%. It is called physiological (another common name is isotonic solution) for its similarity with blood plasma. Due to this similarity, saline solution is easily absorbed and helps to restore the water-salt balance.

In the pharmacy network you will find saline in ampoules and vials. Its main advantage is sterility, since such a drug is made in the laboratory.

If you are going to make a saline solution at home, you can take a clean salt, preferably finely ground (for better dissolution).

• Before you make inhalation with this homemade saline solution, it should be heated to room temperature.
• Remember that this solution is unsterile, so that during inhalation not only water with salt, but also microbes will get into the respiratory tract. Therefore, the pharmacy version of saline solution is more preferable, especially since its cost is low.
• Instead of saline for inhalation, you can use alkaline mineral waters.

The use of saline for inhalation is indicated for:

• Runny nose.
• Throat diseases
• Diseases of the bronchi and lungs.
• SARS.
• Adenoids.

Breathe with saline or other drugs diluted with saline, it is impossible at elevated body temperature, a tendency to bleeding from the nose, as well as otitis.

If a child has a runny nose with purulent discharge, the procedure may worsen the course of the disease. In addition, inhalation with saline is not recommended for violations of water-salt balance and heart failure.

About what you need to know when conducting inhalations, see the video of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia.

To carry out inhalation with a saline solution to a small child, the medicine is poured into a nebulizer in the amount of 3-4 milliliters. For older children, the dose of the drug can be increased to 10-15 ml, depending on the duration of the procedure and the course of the disease.

In addition to the procedures with only saline, children are often prescribed other therapeutic inhalations. In this case, saline is used for dilution of other therapeutic drugs.

In combination with saline for nebulizer inhalation use:

1. Bronchodilators (Atrovent, Berodual, Berotek and others) - their purpose is shown in bronchial asthma and other diseases in which there is a bronchospasm.
2. Mucolytics (ACC injection, Ambrobene, Mukaltin, Lasolvan and others) - appointed by coughing in order to make it productive and facilitate expectoration of sputum.
3. Antiseptics (Miramistin, Chlorophyllipt, Dioxidin, Furacilin) - recommended for cleansing mucous membranes.
4. Antibiotics (Gentamicin, Fluimucil) - shown for bacterial lesions of the respiratory tract.
5. Antitussive drugs (Tussamag, Pertussin) - help to get rid of unproductive cough.
6. Anti-inflammatory drugs (Pulmicort, Kromoheksal, Rotokan and others) - shown to reduce the swelling of the mucous membrane and the treatment of inflammation, especially of an allergic nature.

For inhalations with saline, both a steam inhaler and any type of nebulizer are used. It is important to remember - if you decide to use a steam inhaler for the procedure, you will only affect the upper respiratory tract. In the bronchi and alveoli saline can only get with a nebulizer. Before the procedure, the saline solution is heated.

Features of inhalation with saline at different ages:

You can breathe saline through the nebulizer from birth. This is a completely safe drug that is approved for use at home in children younger than a year. Nevertheless, it is necessary to consult with a pediatrician in relation to the inhalation of babies, to take into account all the risks and individual characteristics of the baby.

• If the child has eaten, inhalations are not carried out for 60-90 minutes after this.
• Within an hour after the procedure, the child should not talk, eat, drink and go for a walk.
• Saline particles should be inhaled calmly.
• After the procedure, rinse the device and dry it well.