Folk remedies for the treatment of cough in children over 5 years

Cough in children older than five years happens quite often. Children at this age are very contacts, they are in crowded places, and their immunity still not strong enough and formed. Therefore, they are more likely to get sick with viral infections and other illnesses that may be accompanied by such a reflex. Since daughters and sons get sick at this age often enough, the parents have a reasonable question whether it is possible to manage the treatment with folk remedies so as not to feed the child once again with pharmacy medicines. We will talk about this today.

To plan a home treatment, which will give the desired effect, you should know exactly what kind of cough in a child. Everything depends on it. Reflex is of two types - wet and dry.

• Wet. This reflex is difficult not to recognize, with every coughing fit, the child has phlegm. Therefore, such a cough is also called productive. When breathing, a child may have audible wheezing and gurgling in the area of ​​the bronchi, where the bronchial secretion is produced and accumulated. The task of therapy is not to allow sputum to thicken and dry up, and also to ensure the earliest diversion of the secret out (expectoration). Therefore, with a wet cough, mucolytic and expectorant drugs are shown, as well as folk remedies with expectorant action.
• Dry. A completely different treatment approach is required for unproductive coughing. Attacks at it private (especially at night), they do not bring relief, as the phlegm is not developed. The child may complain of pain in the sternum, headaches. Such a cough usually indicates the initial stage of a viral infection, and is also a manifestation of allergies. To effectively treat such a reflex, it is necessary to use antitussive drugs, the task of which is to minimize the intensity of cough, as well as folk remedies with a similar effect.

Folk remedies can not do if the cough in a child is a symptom of such dangerous diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, heart failure, coronary heart disease. Or a foreign body stuck in his airway, which he accidentally inhaled (such cases, unfortunately, are not uncommon). When allergic coughing, alternative medicine recipes are also ineffective.

At home, a five-year plan can be given a lot - by age, they are mostly well tolerated by the best cough remedies - milk, honey, chicken eggs. Therefore, they can cook eggnog, honey milk with butter.

Medicinal herbs decoctions are also effective - coltsfoot, oregano, chamomile, aloe juice solution. In the preparation of decoctions most often used a proportion of 1 tablespoon of raw materials per 250 ml of boiled water. You can use the pharmacy "Breast fees».

Among rubbing with a dry cough, camphor alcohol can be used, fir oil, eucalyptus oil. Moist cough will require rubbing heels with garlic and honey, mustard dry compresses, as well as compresses from cottage cheese and calcined salt.

Inhalation at home should be carried out only with the permission of the doctor. For them, usually use such medicinal herbs as chamomile, St. John's wort, motherwort, thyme, a little bit of essential oil can be added to the broths, preferably pine or eucalyptus.

With a wet cough, a drainage (vibratory) massage is shown that is easy to master on your own. It is based on the impact with your fingertips (tapping) on ​​the ribs, back and chest of the child in the bronchus and lungs.

• At high temperature, and also in the presence of admixture of blood and pus in sputum warming compresses, foot baths, rubbing and inhalation cannot be done.
• During the treatment of cough, as well as at any other time, the child should be in suitable microclimatic conditions for it: the air temperature in the apartment should not exceed 20 degrees, and the humidity should be at the level of 50-70%.
• To speed recovery, no need to put a coughing baby in bed, if he naturally has no heat. Active movement, walks in the fresh air, outdoor games contribute to the diversion of sputum.
• When treating the most important is the drinking regime. When coughing (both when it is dry and when it is wet), a child needs an abundant warm drink, which will dilute the bronchial secretion and contribute to its elimination.