If a strong cough in a child at night, what should parents do?

Sometimes a strong cough begins in a child at night. What to do, parents do not know, and begin to question friends who have encountered such a situation. If parents turned to the doctor, then the problem of a night cough could be solved much faster.

What can cause coughing attacks?

Coughing attacks can cause viral diseases and diseases Respiratory system. Parents should know that some ailments, such as bronchitis, tonsillitis, tonsillitis and even pneumonia, can occur without temperature. During the day, the child accumulates mucus swallowing, and while it sleeps, sputum drips down the back wall, causing a reflex cough.

If the child is suffering from coughing at night, then it can be assumed that he has abnormalities in the respiratory system. It is necessary to consult a pediatrician, does the baby have a propensity for bronchial asthma?

Sometimes coughing at night is caused by an uncomfortable posture in bed or an allergic reaction to sleep accessories. Down or feather fillers for pillows can be a strong allergen.

It happens that the culprit of a night cough in a child becomes overdried air in the room.

How to help a child who coughs at night?

When there is a constant paroxysm of severe coughing in a child at night, what should parents do first of all:

• Consult a doctor;
• To exclude suspicions on diseases of respiratory system;
• Change bedding;
• Buy an air humidifier or put in a vessel with water without lids.

If the disease is already cured, and the cough continues, for example, after pertussis, seizures at night affect the patient until half a year, then you can ask the pediatrician to prescribe a medicine that facilitates their course. Very often physicians in this case are advised to give children lollipops that soften the throat or antitussive pastilles.

There is another way how to relieve coughing at night. It is necessary to make sure that the baby is as little as possible on his back. The position on the side facilitates breathing and does not allow mucus to enter the trachea.

Home remedies for cough relief

Traditional medicine offers a variety of methods that help calm a severe cough in a child at night. What can and can not be done?

You can make a warming compress before going to bed. The simplest version of it is made from boiled potatoes, which are pressed, wrapped in a cloth and applied to the chest. This means 2 in 1: compress warms, and couples from boiled potatoes act as inhalation.

You can not make an alcohol compress.

Also make compresses from heated oil, honey, apple cider vinegar. Sometimes it is enough to wrap the neck with a woolen scarf, just like our grandmothers did.

If you drop a few drops of eucalyptus oil on the pillow, it will ease the baby's breathing.

Children over the age of five can be inhaled, give a steam from boiled potatoes, decoction of chamomile, mother-and-stepmother.

Internal funds from the arsenal of traditional medicine also stop a strong cough in the child at night. What can I do to make the child drink homemade potion with pleasure? Choose those decoctions that have a sweet taste.

Anise with honey in a ratio of 2/1 and a few crystals of salt boiled in a glass of water. It effectively helps prevent night cough. The only contraindication to this medicine is diarrhea, the broth is weakened.

Cough can help decoction of viburnum with honey. Sugary taste should not be, otherwise the irritation of the mucosa will intensify.

Coughing spells are eased herbal teas made from oregano, St. John's wort, chamomile.

Ways mass. You can always choose the one that is suitable for the child. The wrong method of getting rid of a cough can do more harm than the cough itself.