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Cold treatment

Usually proceeding acute cold if the condition of the child remains satisfactory, in overwhelming majority of cases, does not demand intensive treatment.

It is necessary to air is more often a premise, to wet air in a room: regularly to spend wet cleaning, to use special apparatus for air humidifying.

At the raised temperature it is necessary to the kid often, but gradually to offer boiled water of a room temperature. It is not necessary to feed the child violently, bad appetite - natural biological reaction of an organism to disease. If the kid refuses a breast, it is possible to give a drink its decanted milk from a small bottle through a dummy, it is better - from a spoon. In case of intolerance of milk, it is possible to replace it with sour-milk products (admixtures, but use is necessary for discussing them with the pediatrist).

Important regularly to delete accumulated slime from nasal courses.

Tender touches, words, kind, quiet faces are especially necessary for the sick child. It is impossible to show it the experiences, alarms concerning illness so excitements of mother are transferred to the child. It is recommended to take the child on arms, thus it is not necessary to be afraid, that he will get used to arms, on the contrary the kid will feel the security.

For simplification of symptoms of a cold, but not for elimination of the reasons of a cold including at children about one year, it is possible to apply vasoconstrictive preparations: BRIZOLIN, VIBROCIL (drops, nasal a spray), NAZIVIN, OTRIVINUM and others. For each age group there is the dosage of a preparation specified on packing. For children of thoracal age it is better to use nasals drops. Maximum time use of vasoconstrictors till 5-7 days.

It is necessary to remember, that the vasoconstrictive drops entered into a nasal cavity, quickly enough are soaked up in blood and, except local, can have the general an effect on an organism, and in some cases after instillation at the child pallor of integuments is observed. Therefore it is necessary to use the preparations prescribed the doctor, and accurately to adhere to the established dosage.

If the bacteriemic inflammation (it establishes only the doctor) including to children about one year, it is recommended to use following anti-infectives has joined: nasal spray IZOFRA, ointment BAKTROBAN of 2 % (it is pawned in nasal courses), aerosol BIOPAROKS (is available the attachment for preparation injection in a nose) etc. Also, it is possible to use immunomodulator DERINAT (0,25 % a solution for instillation in a nose). Besides, DERINAT it is possible to use as preventive anti-catarrhal an agent or at cold precursory symptoms, for the purpose of attempt of its prevention.

At cold treatment homoeopathic preparations, for example, OKARIZALIA, EUFORBIUM KOMPOZITUM (the way of application is specified in the instruction) are successfully applied also.

To instill a nose it is better slightly warmed-up drops for what a blister with lower in a cup with warm, but not hot water. To instill a preparation it is possible so: to throw back a head, to enter 2-3 drops into a nasal course, at once to incline a head downwards and to close thus an exit from a nose, having pressed a nostril to a nasal septum. Then also to enter a medicine into other nasal course. This measure will lead to that drops will not be swallowed as it often happens, and will have immediate an effect on a nasal cavity mucosa.

To raise protective forces of an organism massage of bioactive points will help. Massage is done by 2-3 times a day, points mass simultaneously on the right and at the left index fingers of 1-1,5 minutes. In the acute period of disease the course makes not less than 10-20 days. Time of influence for points remains same, and here the quantity can be finished influence to 5 times a day if the body temperature is not above 37,5 ºC. Nachinajut from points of the wings of a nose located in excavations. Then mass symmetric points which are under nostrils in a nose and upper lip junction. The exception - the asymmetrical point located on an end of a nose, is massed by one finger. Further mass the symmetric points, eyes being at internal angles. Slightly having inclined a head forward, grope and mass points on characteristic symmetric hillocks at the nape basis. In the conclusion spend massage of the points located on palms at the basis of an index finger, at first mass a point on the left palm, then on the right; then with force press small pillows of the big fingers.