Prevention of upper respiratory tract infections in children when communicating season

According to scientific studies, children at risk of contracting the disease than adults.

Weather fluctuations during this very cause both adults and children with respiratory diseases. In that upper respiratory tract infections are more common. According to scientific studies, children at risk of contracting the disease than adults.

 

Mothers should be proactive in preventing child - Photo: Illustration 

Upper respiratory tract infection is not a disease but a combination of diseases including colds, nasopharyngitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, laryngitis. Although there are many different single disease, but they have some common manifestations are obvious. Here are some common manifestation in children:

- Fever is the first important manifestation. Fever in diseases of the upper respiratory tract infection is usually high fever and a bout. Body temperature is usually 39 degrees Celsius or more.

- Runny nose and runny nose. The child will be nasal discharge characteristics with much care, in, diluted, no pus and no smell. Services nose is essentially an inflammation of the protective services, but it is the culprit for spreading germs nasal many pathogens. It was the perpetrator of infection from department to department, and from the upper respiratory tract to the lower respiratory tract.

- Ho is an expression that is present in almost all upper respiratory tract infections. Rhinitis child is coughing, sore throat, cough and laryngitis but also cough. For some reason the child's throat is very sensitive situation plus many more services should cough is often a common symptom. Ho has many kinds: the attack cough, cough, cough ... cough with phlegm is manifested first and last expression signals terminate the entire course of infection. Usually cough is beneficial but if not controlled, they make children tired, insomnia, vomiting ...

- Shortness of breath is a typical symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections. It is often a symptom of lower respiratory tract infections but in the case of children with croup, so it might be difficult to breathe. Shortness of breath is the symptoms are less common but have met are very worrying, common manifestation is the child must hiss of breath, wheezing ...
Therefore, if you detect signs in children, parents should take their children to the doctor immediately for treatment promptly directed by upper respiratory tract infections in young children may lead to bronchial inflammation or pneumonia.

How to care for children with upper respiratory tract infections:

- Take your medicine as directed by your doctor

- For children eat normally when sick, avoid excessive dieting. Try to eat more meals when they heal to supplement nutritional deficiencies.

- Increase vegetable and fruit juice drink more children
- You can use the normal antipyretics (Panadol, Bivinadol, efferalgan, Tylenol ...) combined with clean warm water used to cool fever children.
- Use saline nose drops and decongestants before feeding your baby, feeding.
- Use all medications readily distilled white roses as candy, honey or lemon basil steamed some herbal cough medicines are also available as Pectol, Astex ... to relieve cough.
Precautions
- Restrict sending children to crowded places during epidemics.
- Limit the children out into the street the seasons
- For young fully immunized according to national immunization programs.
- Keep your child clean, sanitary daily throat with physiological saline solution.
- Keep your neck warm when sleeping child
Avoiding cold for children by not feeding too cold drinks.
- Do not smoke and keep the door is always open and clean.
- Before contact with children must wash their hands with antiseptic soap.

- Additional nutritious and actively increasing resistance for children.