Treatment of wet cough in children folk remedies

A child’s cough always indicates some kind of disturbance in the body’s work. This is not an independent disease, but only a manifestation of this disease. It is advisable to find this cause and only then decide which way to treat - with a drug, a drug or two at once. As a rule, experienced parents always have in mind several effective methods to overcome cough, and a wet cough is more amenable to home therapy than a dry one. We will talk about how to treat such a cough reflex at home in this article.

Know the type of cough is necessary in order to properly treat it:

With a dry and unproductive coughwhen sputum is not produced or separated, it is best to use antitussives and folk recipes with such an action.

However if cough wet, everything changes: it is necessary not to suppress the cough reflex, but to stimulate it so that the sputum recedes faster. For this purpose, they use mucolytic and expectorant drugs, as well as recipes of traditional medicine with this effect.

Features of wet cough, which is also called wet, in its productivity. Each attack of the cough reflex is accompanied by expectoration of sputum. It is formed in the bronchi as a protective mechanism against viruses and bacteria, and often such a cough appears in a child in the second stage of the flu or ARVI disease. He comes to replace the dry cough, and to recognize it is quite simple: the child has wheezing and gurgling in the bronchus region. Husky voices with a wet cough are usually not observed.

Dr. Komarovsky will tell you how to help your child with coughing, what are the best treatment options.

Wet type of cough necessarily needs proper treatment, otherwise, it may be complicated by pneumonia and other unpleasant and dangerous illnesses. This can occur if the discharge of abundant bronchial secretion is insufficient or the mucus dries directly in the bronchi.

If the cough is protracted (more than two weeks) and chronic. Such forms of the disease should be treated under medical supervision with medicines. Folk remedies may well be a worthy addition to therapy, but they cannot replace drugs.

Often, a wet cough is a sign of a serious inflammatory process in the respiratory organs. Therefore, any treatment of such a condition should be agreed with the doctor, especially when it comes to children's health.

As already mentioned, all folk remedies for wet cough should have the ability to dilute and remove the bronchial secret. To this end, you can use one of the following recipes and methods.

In general, home treatment should include a range of activities: warm and abundant drinking, decoctions and extracts of medicinal plants, compresses and foot baths, rinsing for throat.

You can buy it at the pharmacy, and brew it yourself. By the way, this ingredient is the basis of most pharmaceutical cough syrups. To prepare a homemade medicine, you will need one root, which you need to grind and boil for half an hour. After this, the broth must be filtered through gauze and given to the child in the age dosage indicated on the package with vegetable raw materials. The taste of this drink is not too pleasant, and the smell leaves much to be desired.

This root is a great help with sputum abduction. You need to clean one turnip, chop it in a blender or grate it, mix it with milk and a spoon of honey. Giving such a drink to a child should be exceptionally warm, so turnip juice will act more efficiently.

In combination with honey and lemon, horseradish is able to quickly rid the child of wet cough. Horseradish need to rub, pour warm boiled water and insist about 4 hours. In a half cup of warm milk of any fat you should add one teaspoon of horseradish infusion, and the same amount of honey and lemon juice.

The leaves of this houseplant should be kept in the fridge for several hours after being cut. Then they are passed through a meat grinder and mixed gruel with honey. Store the medicine you need in the refrigerator, give the child a teaspoon after each meal.

Badger fat is excellent for warming the chest with a wet cough. It is sometimes mixed with honey, previously melted in a water bath. The imposition of such a warm compress - from 30 to 45 minutes.

According to the parents, a boiled potato wrap effectively helps. Warm, but not hot, puree spread in a piece of natural fabric, wrap it on both sides and put on the chest and back of the child for one hour.

This procedure helps to enhance the effect of treatment with both medications and folk remedies. When a wet cough, such a massage is recommended to do all pediatricians. Moreover, the cost of massage services is not required, since all manipulations are simple and can be performed by mom and even dad themselves. An infant is picked up and gently tapped with the tips of the fingers on the back. Then put it on his back and tapping is repeated in the chest.

Children older than a year should be placed face down on the knees of an adult so that his hands hang down and his head were a level lower than the priests. With light movements of the fingers they make circular and longitudinal movements along the back, and then proceed to rhythmic tapping. Then the baby is raised and asked to cough. The exercise is repeated 7-10 times in one session.

The second part of the session is performed while standing. The child is asked to stretch his arms forward in front of him, his finger tips tapping the ribs to the right and left. Complete the exercise should also coughing. Repeat also 7-10 times.

How to do a massage when coughing children, Dr. Komarovsky will tell in the next video.

• It is strictly forbidden to make compresses at a temperature; this can cause an increase in the inflammatory process in the respiratory organs.
• In order to prevent the mucus from drying in the bronchi, it is necessary to humidify the air in the room where the child lives. To do this, use a special device - a humidifier, and if it is not, place basins with water around the house and hang wet towels. Recommended air humidity is 50-70%.
• You can not restrict a child with a wet cough in motion. Bed rest is not recommended for him. The only exceptions are cases with elevated temperature. If there is no heat, make sure that the baby moves, plays, runs, walks and breathes fresh air as much as possible.All this will contribute to the dilution and more rapid withdrawal of bronchial secretions.
• If treatment with folk remedies during the week does not bring positive changes in the child’s condition, you should consult a doctor as soon as possible. Further delay may cause a neglected form of the inflammatory process, which will require inpatient treatment.