Whoever did not come across a child's runny nose is just lucky. Usually it is possible to cope with children's snot in a week. But what to do if the cold in a child takes a protracted character, how to cure it?
Causes of a protracted cold in the child
Before you start fighting with nasal secretions, you need to establish the cause of their appearance. The common cold has a lot of them: from viral infections, to enlarged adenoids. For a protracted runny nose, there are only two reasons:
- bacterial infection;
- allergy.
Bacterial colds
The most common cause of constantly ongoing snot in a child is improper treatment of a common cold. Do not listen to everyone when treating your child: it's not a fact that what helped others will help you. And the moment when you could manage for one week will be missed.
To treat the common cold at its initial stages, you can use interferon, which very well helps the body to fight the disease.
But vasoconstrictor drugs should not be carried away, because they are addictive. Use them is recommended only in very extreme cases and not more than 3-5 days.
If you have not managed to cope with the common cold yourself and the child has lingering green snot, it's time to turn to specialists who will prescribe antibacterial drugs and help pick up drops.
Allergy
Allergies can occur on anything. For a long time, not passing snot in a child can be associated with the following pathogens of allergy:
- Microscopic tick. Lives in many things, having a fabric covering: carpets, mattresses, pillows, toys. Propagates where there is high humidity. In food uses particles of exfoliated skin and human dandruff.
- Wool of animals, feathers and feathers of birds. It is hardly worth talking about these pathogens of allergies. Most likely, we will have to move the animal to another place, and replace the pillows from the fluff.
- Mold. It is difficult to struggle with it, therefore it is necessary to be constantly on the alert.
How to deal with allergies?
First of all, you need to isolate the child from the apartment, in order to spend the spring cleaning, remove all carpets and large curtains, change bedding made of wool, fluff and cotton wool. Old soft toys are worth throwing away, and new ones make sense to clean.
Every day, it is necessary to ventilate the room and, if possible, carry out a wet cleaning. And of course, it is worth to visit an allergist.
Prolonged cold in the infant
In the youngest, several types of rhinitis are distinguished, characteristic only for them.
- Khripy, resembling "pohryukivanie" somewhere in the region between the nozzle and the neck. Give your baby breasts. If the "grunting" sounds have disappeared, then do not worry. This phenomenon occurs when a small part of what the child has bitten falls into the back nasal passages, and, strangely enough, continues to be digested there. Sometimes in the discharge from the nose you can see this mass. Do not worry - it's not dangerous. This is observed at 2-3 months of age.
- "Tooth snot", appearing at the time of teething and passing immediately after the appearance of the tooth.
- False cold. It is observed at a time when the baby is learning to release bubbles from the saliva and snot, as the salivary glands are at the peak of their activity and therefore there is enough "material" for the blisters.
On all these types of leakage from the spout can almost be ignored, just notice them and monitor them. But if the child began to throw a breast, allocation prevents him from sucking and there was a cough, not similar to how they are choked with saliva, then you should definitely go to the polyclinic. After a protracted runny nose can give a serious complication to the ears of the baby, as well as lead to chronic sinusitis. Therefore, without fail take the direction to Laura.