To a one-year-old baby, give one tablespoon of infusion, two-year-old - two, three-year-old - three. Medicinal plants that are used at this stage, irritate the gastric mucosa, reflexively stimulating the cough center. This is the basis of their mechanism of action. You should know that in children it sometimes leads to an undesirable effect - vomiting. However, a strong and non-relieving cough can provoke it without any medications.
When the cough becomes wet and sputum begins to go away, and you start giving the baby expectorant infusions, a plentiful drink will be even more necessary to make the phlegm more fluid - otherwise it will be difficult to remove from the bronchi! In addition to the expectorant action of the grass, which must be given to the baby during this period, must have a drying and astringent effect. It is a snake mountaineer, a leaf of cranberries and eucalyptus, a root of licorice and an althaea, a grass of a ledum, a yarrow and a string, mother-and-stepmother, peppermint ... Be circumspect with tablets from a cough! Not knowing the features of their action, it is easy to miss. Let the medicine be picked up by a doctor.
You need to consult with him also because the expectorant drugs that pediatricians used during your childhood and which you habitually ask for crumbs in the pharmacy are inferior to modern drugs of a new generation based on ambroxol and carbocysteine. They not only dilute sputum, but also help the baby's respiratory system to recover, quickly coping with the common cold. With a protracted cough that does not release by the end of the week, especially when inhaled and exhaled accompanied by whistling, wheezing and shortness of breath, the child must be examined by the doctor to rule out pneumonia and prescribe bronchitis treatment.
Temper the baby and cure the cough with rubbing and dousing. The question that interests many parents is when and how? It is possible to accustom a child to hardening at any time of the year. The main thing is that he was healthy and cheerful. Carry out procedures systematically, otherwise there will be no result. Violation of the principle of gradualness causes hypothermia with all consequences. Combine common (wiping, dousing) and local (foot baths, gargling) types of hardening. Start with washing, accustoming the crumb to wet not only the face and hands, but also the neck, the upper part of the chest.
Know-How. In the first days the water should be 36-37 C. Reduce it by one degree per week, bringing to 17-18 C. In the afternoon, wipe with a damp woolen mitten. The initial temperature is 35 C - lower by one degree per week, bringing to 27 C (winter) and 24 C (summer). Know-How. In a month and a half after the beginning of the rubbing, you can proceed to dousing. From the scoop or shower, first pour the baby's neck first, then the chest, sides, backrest, handles, legs.
Return to normal
How to increase physical activity after a child has had an ORZ? This question was specially studied by doctors at the Institute of Pediatrics. As it was possible to establish, after not severe ORZ the normal thermoregulation at the kid is restored already in 7-10 days. Did the child's temperature rise for 3 days? In this case, the thermoregulation is normalized after two weeks. After a severe fever, which lasted more than 10 days, thermoregulation will return to normal after 3-4 weeks.