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Cold diagnostics

In the presence of a cold at the child complex inspection and timely treatment is necessary. For this purpose it is necessary to address to an ENT-doctor (otolaryngologist).

At occurrence of a cold at the child of the first months of a life, it is necessary to show it first of all to the pediatrist. If within a week after the treatment prescribed the doctor disease symptoms do not pass, it is necessary to address to an ENT-doctor.

The ENT-doctor begins consultation of the kid with detailed interrogation of parents, that disturbs them in behaviour and a condition of the child, will find out, how the given disease proceeded, what illnesses were transferred by the kid as developed and so forth After interrogation the doctor by means of special toolkit will inspect ENTs-bodies. The child set on a knee of mum, thus the adult embraces the child, fixing one arm of his hand and a foot, another keeps a head in the necessary position. The kid should sit before the doctor directly if the chin is raised it is impossible to examine all departments of a nasal cavity, the average nasal concha is visible only. The expert begins research of a nose with its external examination and a palpation, then starts research of its mucosa. It is possible to judge degree of passableness of a nasal cavity on a deviation of cotton wool, a fuzz or a thread during an inspiration and an exhalation through a nose. In an ENT-doctor arsenal there are various techniques of research of the small patient, analyses of blood, urine, a X-ray inspection perirhinal sinuses, thorax organs, immunologic and allergological inspections and so forth will be if necessary prescribed

For reduction of expression of a cold, it is necessary to learn children (or to help them) blow one's nose, blowing slime without efforts with a half-open mouth, serially closing half of nose. To thoracal children the nasal cavity frequently needs to be released to parents with the help spray can. For simplification of this process it is possible to use preparations on the basis of sea water AKVAMARIS, SALIN, FIZIOMER, broths of grasses (a camomile, a sage, John's-wood) or ROMAZULAN (contains a camomile extract). It is necessary to instill some drops of these agents in each nasal course for a ramollissement of crusts and improvement of unit of slime. Further cautiously to enter spray can into a nasal cavity, preliminary having compressed its fingers, on depth no more than 1 see Besides, allocation from a nose it is possible to delete slices of a gauze, cotton wool or the soft rags, the curtailed flagellas. And crusts can be softened olive, peach or almond oil. It is not necessary to use very small flagellas and to leave them in a nose even for some seconds as the child can inhale them that is very dangerous to a life! It is impossible to pawn simultaneously flagellas in both nostrils.