Treatment of angina in children folk remedies

If a child has a sore throat and the doctor confirms that a sore throat has started, the parents always have a question whether the child can be cured more benign compared to medications, folk remedies. After all, there are many recipes for gargling, you can choose the right one. To answer this question, you need to understand what actually is a sore throat. In this article we will try to figure out which folk remedies for the treatment of this disease exist, how and when to use them.

Not every reddened throat can be considered a sore throat. In case of influenza and ARVI, viruses penetrate by airborne droplets, and, as a rule, first of all they attack the nasopharynx. A runny nose appears, the tonsils become inflamed, it becomes difficult for the child to swallow. But this is not a sore throat, but tonsillitis. And it should be treated with antiviral drugs.

Angina, in its present sense, is most often caused by bacteria - staphylococci and streptococci. They get into the children's body upon contact with the sick, through household items, common utensils, through hands, bodily contact. However, inflammation does not begin immediately. For a long time, microbes can live in the nasopharynx and cause no harm. However, if suddenly the microclimate in the body becomes favorable for their reproduction, then streptococci will certainly take advantage of this chance.

The inflammatory process will begin if the child’s immunity falls, if he overcools and has a cold, has experienced a stressful situation, if he is tired. A real sore throat begins very aggressively and unequivocally, her symptoms are bright:

• Severe sore throat, difficulty swallowing, feeling of "coma" in the throat.
• Boost temperatures to values ​​of 38.5- 39.5.
• Swollen lymph nodes, which are in close proximity to the inflammation - the submandibular and cervical, rarely - axillary.
• Tonsils (and sometimes palatal arches) have a bright red color, characteristic of the onset of the disease. A little later, white, greenish, yellow and gray sores, bloom, purulent papules appear on them.
• The appearance of bad breath.
• Severe intoxication of the body - the child is sluggish, naughty, has no appetite and has complaints of muscle and headache.

Angina can be catarral, follicular, purulent, herpetic, necrotic, fungal. The lightest is catarrhal, the other forms of the disease are more severe, with the formation of pus, with the death of the lymphoid tissue of the tonsils and palatine arches.

Any sore throat is better to show the doctor, if only for the reason that it is quite difficult to determine the causes of the problems. Often, exactly the same symptoms as with angina, indicate diphtheria. It requires the prompt introduction of a special serum, which will protect the heart, kidneys and liver from severe complications. If parents spend these precious hours and days on the treatment of non-existent angina at home using folk methods, then time will be lost, and diphtheria is very likely to be complicated.

Improper treatment, even the usual catarrhal angina can lead to serious consequences, disability. Therefore, self-medication with such a diagnosis is unacceptable. Only a doctor is able to determine what caused the pain and plaque in the throat, and prescribe the necessary treatment in a given situation.

The release of Dr. Komarovsky’s program can be viewed in the following video, where you can find out all about the symptoms of angina and treatment methods.

This question in relation to children's sore throat can be answered briefly and succinctly - always! Any and all cases of angina require the use of antibiotics - quite traditional, pharmacy antimicrobials. Folk remedies, of which there are a great many, can only be a small addition to the prescribed anti-bacterial treatment.

As we have already found out, as a supplement to standard therapy (antibiotics + antipyretic + antiseptics + vitamins) in some situations, you can use the funds from the arsenal of traditional medicine. To treat the disease only by them is unacceptable. It should be immediately noted that folk recipes will not in any way speed up recovery, but they will help reduce the intensity of pain, it will be easier for the child to swallow and talk.

Take a teaspoon of baking soda and salt, dissolve in a half-liter jar with boiled warm water. You can gargle with this solution several times a day. The tool does not have an analgesic effect, but to some extent has an antiseptic effect.

For the preparation of rinsing will need a small ginger root. It must be peeled, grated on a coarse grater, and poured into a dipper with boiling water (about half a liter). For five minutes, the product should be boiled on low heat, then removed, strain and cool to a warm state. Such rinsing will help mucous and lymphoid tissues recover faster.

For the preparation of rinsing need a teaspoon of finished dry pharmaceutical raw materials and 300 grams of water. Water should be boiled, cooled to 80-90 degrees, pour chamomile into it, cover with a lid and insist about an hour. Infusion should be filtered and stored in the refrigerator. Before rinsing it is heated, you can also add a few tablespoons of infusion to tea for the child. Chamomile - an excellent natural antiseptic and antibiotic, it will help to quickly remove the inflammatory process in the throat.

This tool, which has a wide range of useful actions. In angina, sea buckthorn oil in the amount of a tablespoon can be added to boiled water or chamomile infusion. The resulting composition can gargle. The oil has an excellent enveloping effect, it anesthetizes.

Take a head of garlic, peel and chop each clove into small cubes. Mix with milk (300 ml) and bring to a boil over low heat. Milky-garlic cocktail should be held on the stove for another 3-5 minutes, and then strain and let the child drink in small doses (1-2 tablespoons) several times a day. Traditional healers claim that the symptoms of angina begin to recede the very next day after the start of taking such a remedy.

Pretty tasty tool that is suitable for children who do not have a predisposition to allergies to honey.Take a few leaves of aloe, cut them into cubes of small size, put them in a glass jar and cover with honey. The agent should be infused in the refrigerator, tightly closed with a lid for at least three days. During this time, aloe juice, which has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, is mixed with honey. Give the baby a sweet mix a teaspoon before each meal.

To make a rinse with this medicinal plant, you will need dry flowers that you can buy at any pharmacy. Tincture of calendula, which contains alcohol, for the procedures in children is not recommended. Dry flowers need to be brewed with warm water (a tablespoon of herbs and 400 grams of water), put in a water bath and hold there for about 15 minutes. Then the tool must be drained and cooled to 40-50 degrees. Gargle should be several times a day.

Parents who do not consider it necessary to show the child to the doctor if they suspect a sore throat are at risk of causing the child to become disabled. Incorrect diagnosis, incorrect treatment or lack of it in the case of sore throat can lead to serious disorders of the nervous system, brain, systemic infection, severe diseases of the kidneys and liver, heart and joints.

• You can not do with angina inhalation. Any warming of the inflamed tonsils will increase the reproduction of pathogens, will accelerate the inflammatory process.
• For the same reason, it is impossible to impose on the throat warming compresses, do warming rubbing.
• You can not give your child to drink cold drinks, because on the background of high temperature, this can cause vascular spasm.
• It is impossible to manually remove the purulent plaque, ulcers and necrotic fragments from the tonsils. This is fraught with the spread of infection.
• It is not necessary to float the child’s feet in hot water during a sore throat, do alcohol rubbing.
• Do not gargle with hydrogen peroxide, cauterize the sores with green paint or iodine. All these drugs should be used only externally.
• Despite the numerous advice of the Internet "guru" to treat a sore throat with gargles with lemon and apple cider vinegar, doctors categorically do not recommend doing this. The acidic environment only further irritates the inflamed areas, the pain intensifies, and tissue repair proceeds more slowly.

1. Teach your child to gargle properly. Solutions do not need to spit out immediately, it is desirable that your child learns to keep in the tonsils about 30 seconds. Then the result will be faster.
2. Rinse with angina should not be too frequent. This can interfere with the regenerative processes in the tissues of the tonsils. It is better if the child will gargle with decoction every time after eating.
3. Rinse solutions should not be hot. The best fluid temperature for the procedure is 50 degrees.
4. Do not give spicy and salty food, too hot and cold dishes, food with spices to a sore throat kid. It is best to feed the child soups, mashed potatoes, broths, stews, cereals. Avoid solid foods, it can injure the already-affected tonsil tissue.
5. The first few days after the onset of the disease the baby should spend in bed.
6. The child should have plenty of warm drink. Eliminate sweet and carbonated drinks, add more tea, compote, rosehip broth to the diet.
7. Ensure the isolation of the child from other children. Since a sore throat is contagious, the baby needs to pick out its own separate dishes, cutlery, towels, bedding (if you practiced sleeping together), toys.

If the child still does not know how to gargle himself, the next video can be watched with him, and probably the baby will quickly learn how to do it right.