Faced with such an unpleasant phenomenon as a runny nose in a baby who does not have a year, mothers think about safe treatment. Leave everything as it is impossible, because because of the peculiarities of the structure of the nasopharynx, babies simply do not know how to breathe through the mouth. Eating is becoming a serious test, as this process is impossible without nasal breathing.
Features of the common cold in children under one year old
Such small children do not have an isolated cold, again because of the peculiarities of the structure of the nasopharynx. The infection descends below and hits the pharynx, and sometimes reaches the middle ear, causing pharyngitis.
The kid suffers because his neck or earache hurts. But he can not say this, he is limited to crying. From this the amount of snot only increases. The condition brings discomfort, because the kids are not able to take care of themselves and vysmarkivatsya.
How to help the baby?
The first thing to do is to clean the spout to allow the baby to breathe freely. For this, there are special sucking pumps for babies. After that, you need to drip a spout. The first thing that comes to mind is breast milk from the common cold. This tool is promoted by our grandmothers and partly by moms. It is believed that breast milk contains many immunoglobulins and helps fight harmful microorganisms in the baby's nose. But is it really so, is it worth digging breast milk into the nose when the baby has a cold?
Based on sound judgment, it can be argued that, firstly, no milk is ever used for disinfection anywhere. Moreover, it is in such an environment that the bacteria will feel like nowhere else to play well and actively multiply. Secondly,
To dig in breast milk in the nose is possible only for one purpose - to soften the formed crusts so that later it would be easier to remove them. And than it is ineffective to treat a cold with breast milk, it is better to resort to effective methods.
If the cause of the common cold are viruses, our task is to maintain the optimal viscosity of the nasal mucus, since the mucus contains a large amount of substances to combat viruses. And so that these substances can act, the consistency of the snot should not be thick. To prevent thickening of mucus, the child needs to provide cool and fairly humid air, a lot of drinking, and to wash the spout you can use a normal saline solution - 1 tsp. salt for 1 liter of boiled water.