Barking Coughs in Children
Barking Coughs in Children . If possible, keep your child quiet. Crying can make breathing more difficult. Try rocking bother your child with a book or play satisfactory.
Use a humidifier to add moisture to the air. The use of hot evaporator. Use a humidifier with water only. Keep your child in your lap and let's face directly impact your child cool mist.
If there is no improvement after a few minutes, take your child to the bathroom and turn on the shower to create steam. Close the door and stay in that room a few minutes while breathing in moist air. Make sure your child being burned by hot water or steam. Do not leave your child alone in the bathroom.
If there is still no improvement, your child pack and go outside in the cool night air.
If after trying them for about 30 minutes, none of these techniques does not work, call your doctor or seek emergency medical facility.
If your child's symptoms improve with these methods and he or she feels better, put your child back in bed with the humidifier blowing nearby.
Sleep in your child's room for the rest of the night.
Offer your child plenty of fluids to drink. Try offering a favorite drink several times each hour. You can try flavored ice treats, such as Popsicles, or crushed ice drinks.
Do not smoke in the house or car when you are traveling with your child.
Repeat the above techniques if the barking cough returns.
Barking Coughs Treatment :
1. Give the child plenty of clear liquids and use a vaporizer to keep the secretions moist.
2. During an attack of breathing difficulty, place the child in the bathroom, turn the shower on hot and fill the room with steam. Fifteen to 20 minutes in this environment will often relieve the attack. If this does not work, wrap the child up warmly and take her out into the cool night air for a few minutes. If these measures fail to help and she continues to have breathing difficulty, she will need to be taken to the office or to the emergency room.
3. If your child develops an inability to swallow manifested by constant drooling and has the above symptoms of barky cough, fever (usually high), hoarse voice and breathing difficulty, she may have a serious bacterial infection of the throat called epiglottitis. This requires an immediate trip to the emergency room.
4. Your child may need a dose of an anti-inflammatory steroid to get over this. Call for an appoinment if this is needed.
Treatment for Colds
1. Rest and encourage your child to eat nutritious foods.
2. You can use acetaminophen (Tempra, Tylenol) for fever and / or pain (see dosing guide) If this is particularly troublesome. Please see the section on fever in the mother's guide for information about the benefits of fever in fighting infection. Because fever is a physiological signal for the body to fight off infection, and I usually do not treat a fever in my Hasta on a routine basis, but if the child is very uncomfortable. In this mode, and the treatment of fever as little as possible.
3. saline nose drops. This is a very small especially useful for children who are unable to detonate them noses. Saline nose drops (AYR, Salinex Ocean) is very useful when you put it in the nose to relieve mucus. Must be two or three drops put in each nostril, wait a minute or so for the duration of the nose and with an aspirator to suction the nose (the bulb syringe) often as needed. In the use of nasal aspirator effectively, it is necessary to insert the tip of the nose aspirator one half inch in the nose and sip. This is done through the use of an aspirator with small type and insert it directly into the nose. It can make a saline nose drops at home by adding half a teaspoon of salt to four ounces of warm water. Allowing the solution to cool before use and make up fresh every day.
4. Vaporizer. Use a cool mist vaporizer to decrease the nasal congestion and make the mucus more thin. You should use this especially at night. Make sure to wash the water tank daily to prevent molds from forming in the tank. Although the steam of warm mist machines is actually a little better than cool mist machines, we usually do not recommend the use of warm mist machines because of the risks of burns with small children. If you can ensure that your child will not be burned, these machines are acceptable to use.
5. Warm shower. Another method of hydrating mucous besides a vaporizer, is to place or hold the child in the shower thus creating an environment of warm water vapor. This warm water vapor hydrates mucous and makes it easier to cough up the mucous. This is helpful two or three times per day with a bad cold, especially before bedtime.
6. Sometimes for older infants and children, nasal decongestants and cough/cold preparations can be helpful for comfort's sake (see dosage chart for dose & brand names in the Parent’s Handbook).