Green snot in a child - treatment

When a child has green snot, treatment should be started immediately: this means that in the spout of your son or daughter settled bacteria that can cause severe complications, up to genyantritis, frontitis and even meningitis. In addition, the infection easily descends lower into the bronchi and lungs.

What should I do when the snot appears green?

Consider what mom and dad can do to alleviate the condition of a small child:

1. Remember that the treatment of green snot in a newborn has its own characteristics. If there is no temperature and the baby has a good appetite, most likely, the expert will advise you to limit yourself to frequent airing the room, maintaining high humidity and sucking off the snot with an aspirator. Also, because the baby just lies down after birth, the mucus drips down the back wall of the nasopharynx, strongly irritating the throat, it is prescribed vasoconstrictive drugs and rinses with saline. If the condition of the baby worsens, the doctor prescribes antiviral drugs or antibiotics.
2. In older children, the treatment of green snot will be more diverse. The nose must be regularly marked or cleaned with a syringe. In addition, a small sufferer must constantly drink as much as possible. As a drink suitable herbal infusions, fruit drinks, compotes, especially from black currant, which is a real storehouse of vitamin C, broth of wild rose, tea with lemon, milk with honey, etc. Also it is not forbidden to do inhalations with the addition of medicines or herbs, and warm up your legs if there is no fever.

For successful treatment of green snot in a child, it is very important to properly wash your nose. The baby is first laid on its side, bury the medicine in one nostril, then turn over on the other side and do the same procedure. For this purpose, apply either a ready-made pharmacy saline, or prepare a solution of salt yourself. A liter of boiled water is taken 0.5 tsp. salt and 0.5 tsp. soda or 1 tsp. sea ​​salt. In each of the nostrils, 2-4 drops are instilled, then the baby is well-marked. Further treatment of green snot in a child occurs with the use of such drops:

• Protargol;
• Pinosol and other similar mixtures of essential oils;
• Sulfacil sodium;
• Vibrocil and other vasoconstrictive drugs (Nazivin, Xylometazoline, Sanorin, Otrivin, etc.);
• Rinoprint (appointed from year).

But sometimes you can not do without the use of antibiotics. In practice, the doctor also often prescribes antihistamines to reduce swelling of the mucous membranes (Loratadin, Claritin, etc.), as well as homeopathic remedies with anti-inflammatory effect - Gelomirtol and Sinupret.

If you can not buy a nebulizer, you can use old, but proven methods to treat dense green snot in a child:

1. Let the baby breathe a steam from the newly cooked potatoes, covering it with a towel. For the same purpose, a bowl of hot water, in which not more than 1-2 drops of essential oil is added (only if the child is older than 3-4 years).
2. Ask the doctor for a referral to UHF therapy, electrophoresis, microwave therapy, which give an excellent result with constant warming of the nose.
3. When treating folk remedies with a green snot in a child, you will forget about a stuffed nose if you dig in a broth of chamomile, calendula or plantain, aloe juice, calanchoe, beet, parsley root, carrot, potato. You can also do a warming of the bridge of the nose, applying a bag of heated salt, or pour dry mustard into the socks of your child.