Causes
How to treat a dry cough in a child?First of all, it will be necessary to remember if the child has communicated with other sick children. It is possible that the baby was in a new room with polluted air or sharp smells. In this case, there is a possibility that the baby developed an allergic cough. But if your child feels great, sleeps perfectly, plays and eats, and coughing does not bother, then you do not need anything to heal! Nevertheless, in addition to the physiological nature, this condition also has pathological signs.
Therefore, mother and her child should visit a doctor, if present:
Barking dry cough;
• sudden cough with bouts;
• dry cough at night;
• vomiting after and during a cough;
• cough is accompanied by severe allergies;
• fever, malaise;
• cough aggravated.
Cough with symptoms of other diseases
The child cough can be with the following diseases:
- Whooping cough;
- Measles;
- laryngitis;
- Allergic exacerbations;
- usual tracheitis and bronchitis;
- Viral pharyngitis;
- pleurisy;
- PC infection.
Treatment
Как лечить сухой кашель у ребёнка?Most often in the treatment it is required to calm the cough, if the attacks are prolonged, and the child because of it can not fall asleep. To the suffocating cough does not tire the baby and does not prevent him from sleeping, did not upset and did not irritate him, it is necessary to stop it. Constant tension with dry suffocating cough can lead to vomiting and pain in the muscles. Relieve the state of antitussive drugs that have the ability to soothe the mucous. There is no universal pill for cough, so it should be treated for several days.
How to treat dry cough in a child with medications?
Treatment for cough in ARVI and ARI should be started withmukolitikov, so that the dry quickly passed into the wet. These drugs help to dilute and sputum. Cough medicine is also prescribed for these purposes. It is also recommended to take such dry cough syrups for children as "Tussin", "Terpinhydrate", "Solutan", "Pectusin", "Glitsiraam", Elixir "Bronchicum", Alteyn syrup, "Doctor Mom".
Treatment with physiotherapy
Help to save the child from cough and procedure:
• steam inhalations using a drinking soda solution;
• easy massage, without pressure, massage of the feet and chest.
Traditional methods of treatment
Traditional medicine can also answer the question of how to treat a dry cough in a child, and recommends the following tools:
- oregano, mother-and-stepmother and licorice;
- licorice, mother-and-stepmother and plantain;
- pine buds, licorice, althaea, anise, sage and fennel.