If the baby is coughing, it is required to start treatment with a doctor's call. The baby’s body is very tender, metabolic processes in it are accelerated. A moderate inflammatory process sometimes quickly becomes acute. Deciding what and how is more correct treat cough in a newborn baby, it is necessary to determine the cause of its occurrence. The most common cause of coughing may be:
- ARVI;
- Allergic reaction;
- Inflammation of the larynx;
- Ingestion in the respiratory tract of a foreign body or their clogging with their liquid;
- Bronchospasm.
After the pediatrician determines the nature of the cough, he can advise parents to combine the use of traditional therapy and treatment with alternative methods. This speeds up the healing process and does not give a lot of side effects.
Alternative methods of treating cough in children up to a year
As an alternative cough medicine there are folk remedies for the treatment of infants, which should be used wisely so as not to aggravate the situation by self-medication.
First and foremost – Do not warm up and put mustard plasters if the baby has a fever.
Infants under 2 months of age quickly help get rid of cough onion jam. Finely rub the onion on a grater, mix in a proportion of 1/1 with honey, let stand for about 1.5 hours. Then the juice is decanted. Give half an hour a teaspoon every hour.
Herbs Against Coughing
The use of herbs in the form of decoctions for treating infants is possible from 2 months.
Coltsfoot and Plantain
From 4 months old baby You can give a herbal decoction composed of coltsfoot and plantain. It is made this way: a tablespoon of raw materials is poured with a glass of boiling water, insisted in a thermos or warm place for 2 hours, and given to the child before meals - 2 tablespoons - in 15 minutes. The mixture has expectorant properties. If the child has a vomiting effect after it, then the dosage should be reduced.
Licorice, elecampane and marshmallow
Also has a good effect liquorice root. It is recommended to use it in combination with elecampane and mallow.
All three roots are mixed in equal numbers. Take 1 tablespoon of the mixture and pour 500 ml of cold boiled water. Infused for 8 hours. Give the child 2-3 grams per day of 50 grams
Compresses for heating
For children under 2 months of age, the following recipes will help speed up the healing process.
- Honey compresses. Honey cake is kneaded on the basis of honey, adding flour and vegetable oil to it. The flat cake should have a sufficiently dense consistency so that it does not spread after it is placed on the baby's chest. Some parents add mustard powder to the cake, but it can cause irritation to delicate infant skin. From 4 months old, mustard can already be used without restrictions.
- You can warm the baby by putting him a compress of camphor oil.
- To warm the baby, a compress of mashed potatoes is used.
- The baby's chest is rubbed with badger fat, and insulated with a gauze compress.
Compresses do this:
- Diaper in several layers;
- Therapeutic agent;
- Another diaper;
- A layer of polyethylene;
- Fixing tour with gauze or diaper, folded corner.
Exception: badger fat or camphor oil - the breast is rubbed directly with these substances.
All warming compresses to the child are placed on the chest area. If compresses are placed on the back and chest at the same time, there is a risk of provoking the development of pneumonia.
Badger fat can rub not only the baby’s chest, but also the feet. Rubbing with badger fat can accelerate the process of sputum discharge, if any. In the case when the baby suffers from a dry cough, it is possible that the air in the room is excessively dry and should be additionally moistened.
(See article about dry cough in infants)
Inhalation for the baby
To alleviate the condition of a child up to 2 months of age with a dry cough, you can use passive type inhalation. It is done like this. Boiling water is poured into the bath, and they are waiting for the room to warm up with steam. A coughing baby is inhaled for about 5 minutes. If the aroma of eucalyptus essential oil does not cause an allergic reaction in the child, you can add a few drops of this oil to the water.
Massage
In addition to broths, compresses and inhalations, the use of massage is effective - with gentle pats and taps, the chest and feet of the child are massaged. Massage using herbal balms will increase the effectiveness of the treatment. The use of massage improves sputum discharge.
Take your baby in your arms and gently pat on the back - this also improves bronchial drainage.
Some tips
- It is not recommended to limit the child’s mobility, it can provoke stagnation of sputum.
- Before using folk recipes in the treatment of infants, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
- Warming procedures are used only when children do not have a fever.
- In addition to the described means, you can bathe a child in various herbs, for example, it has a good effect thyme.
Thus, it is not always necessary to load the fragile body of the baby exclusively with medicines, you can additionally use the proven and effective recipes of traditional medicine that are used by more than one generation of mothers.
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Very good and useful information! I did not know how to make compresses for young children, now I know. Thanks for the info!
In addition to the above, a light massage of the chest can be recommended (clapping, tapping movements are especially good for sputum discharge) with the use of herbal balms.
thanks of course! Now there are a lot of recipes using badger fat. but here is what you can rub the child with it I did not know yet! Thanks for the information!
Zer Hood put 5 points.
Mother and stepmother should not be given to children under one year old.
In mid-October, ARVI was transferred, with a strong chest cough. They tried to be treated with folk remedies, but their condition did not improve. On the site with online consultations, the pediatrician advised Joset's cough syrup for children. After three doses, the condition improved, and after three days the cough disappeared
I have two kids. I treat a cough with a folk remedy:
We take the black radish, cut the “hat”, cut a hole inside the radish, put honey there and cover with the “hat”. And let it stand at room temperature. After 2 hours, the juice will appear in the radish, and it should be consumed (3 times a day for a teaspoon). It helps very well, for two days from a cough there is no trace left. 🙂
And if the baby is older, then you need to give a balloon to inflate: this is useful for the lungs and sputum immediately begins to depart faster.
It’s problematic for my daughter to give a decoction or pills, so when she starts coughing I use badger fat. At night I rub my breast and feet. We put warm socks on our feet and warm the breast. It helps us well.
I agree that infants need to be treated with folk remedies, and not with antibiotics. Cold warmth helps my son cough. I put a T-shirt on top of my pajamas for the night and put down a shawl, it warms up well and the cough passes so quickly.
Winter. The cold. Beautiful icicles and naughty children. Such a set always leads to coughs, snot and temperature. From my own experience, I know that the best cough medicine is the Joset complex drug. It is easier for my children to become already in the first day after application. And both have allergies to honey, so neither onion jam nor radish are suitable for us ((
tried a cough recipe for babies (honey + onions) helps. and when the cough is impossible to stop at night,
if the baby is allergic to honey, then grated onions can be added directly to breast milk, and for older children I take onions, cut into quarters, pour milk and need to simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat, then strain and drink, and if the baby not tasty, you can add honey or just sugar.
And my child's inhalation is suitable. With modern inhalers, it is not difficult to seat a child to breathe. The doctor prescribed Prospan for inhalation. I dripped according to the instructions 20 drops and no problems. We get rid of cough in a matter of days
I do not like traditional methods of treatment, I consider them to be the last century. For a long time I was looking for a good remedy for dry cough. I haven’t found better Prospana yet. I like its effectiveness, so relief comes quickly and for a long time.
Thanks everyone for the feedback.
Egg cough syrup.
Boil one glass of milk and add 1 tbsp of honey and butter. In a separate bowl, beat the yolk of one egg with 1/3 teaspoon of soda. Add the beaten yolk to the milk, mix thoroughly. Give the child 50 grams 3 times a day. day. Mixture can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. Warm before use.