How to treat cough in children with natural remedies

Cough very often accompanies children's colds. The child can cough due to diseases of both upper and lower respiratory tract. In addition, the common cold also affects the cough reflex. How to treat cough in children without resorting to expensive medications? Remember the old time-tested good advice.

Momochek always cares about the question of how to cure a child's cough quickly. First tip - we start to treat at the first coughs. It is important! Immediately need to find out the source of irritation: nasopharynx, throat or lower parts of the trachea, bronchi. Despite the reason, we apply measures of influence on all directions. The nose should be washed with saline solution, the throat must be processed with your favorite lugol, alternating with rinses with soda-salt solution, chamomile infusions, oak bark, sage. We begin to give a plentiful warm drink. It is best to start with tea with raspberries, currants, honey and lemon. It would be nice to make a "brace" by warming up the feet (soar with mustard, rub with turpentine ointment or any baby warming). Such a complex attack on cough within a day is quite successful.

Another question: how to get rid of a cough, a torturing child at night? Dry cough brings a lot of anxiety, irritation to the child. Therefore, in the evening, if there is no rise in temperature, it is necessary to warm the breast with dry heat. I basically do not use "wet" compresses. They require maximum attention, and at night it does not always work out. If suddenly the child opens up, or cools, then the harm will be much more than good. It is enough to keep a home-sewn bag of salt. Warm dry salt more than once helped to soothe the irritating cough of my children.

In addition, the onion syrup helps to calm the cough (the finely chopped onion is sprinkled with sugar). It can be used on a teaspoon every half hour. Do not forget about drinking. In this case, herbal infusions help. A good expectorant effect is possessed by mother-and-stepmother, rosemary, licorice.

Now let's talk about how to cure a cough, the cause of which is a protracted rhinitis. Do not give up warming up. The child should sweat well, after which we quickly change clothes. If heating is effective, then 1-2 changes of clothes are required.

Rinsing of the nasopharynx can be done from a pipette with herbal solutions of chamomile, calendula. At what, it is best to put the child on its side, to drip a whole pipette into the lower nostril, then turn over and repeat the same with the other nostril. So the solution will not be poured into the throat and will outgrow the baby.

In the case of severe exacerbation of bronchitis, tracheitis, one must remember that there is a danger of getting a chronic cough. How to treat a cough, if the same happened? In this case, you need to pick up a folk remedy that helps to get rid of phlegm. I was convinced that for each person everything is individual. Someone is good at helping milk with mineral water (alkaline drink). Another - a radish with honey. It is not difficult to find a suitable natural remedy.

A no less important moment in the treatment of chronic cough is massage. If you do not have the opportunity to invite a masseur, simple drainage helps to sputum. Put the baby on the sofa with your belly down so that the head and right arm are slightly hanging down. In this position, tap the edge of the palm between the ribs, closing the area of the kidneys. Turn over to the other side to hang out the left arm and head. Knock again. Such intercostal massage lasts no more than 7 minutes. It can be repeated in the morning and evening.

Before treating a cough caused by an allergic reaction, you need to consult an allergist.