The medical term "bronchitis" is commonly understood as inflammation of the bronchi, which often accompanies colds (such as influenza, tracheitis, laryngitis) or is an independent disease of viral or bacterial origin. As a rule, you should not start alternative treatment of bronchitis without consulting a doctor, since cough (which is the main symptom in making a diagnosis) can be a symptom of another disease.
Doctor or self-medication?
Basically, the disease begins with malaise, weakness, fever and a nasty dry cough, which rather quickly, within just a couple of days, turns into a wet one, i.e. productive. And despite the fact that this disease is quite widespread, especially during the cold season, many are in no hurry to seek medical help, and the acute form becomes chronic with possible subsequent complications. And everything can turn out to be much simpler, and the doctor, after listening to wheezing and diagnosing "bronchitis", will select the treatment (medicines and other recommendations) for a specific case, which will allow you to quickly windisease in its early manifestations. The most commonly prescribed warm and plentiful drink, expectorants and mucolytic drugs, as well as immunostimulants.
Folk recipes
Of course, when bronchitis is detected, home treatment should combine doctor's recommendations and folk methods that can help to quickly alleviate a person's condition. For example, you can use herbal teas from sage, mint, elderberry, raspberry, linden, coltsfoot; hot milk combined with honey and soda; black radish juice mixed with honey, badger fat (both externally in the form of rubbing, and internally with the same hot milk). In this case, sea buckthorn will also be good, and both the jam that is put in tea and the oil used in a teaspoon about half an hour before meals.
Inhalations tested by time
Also, as soon as bronchitis begins to appear, home treatment can be started with the most common and well-known inhalation. You can even use an ordinary teapot to carry it out.
True, if a child has to do inhalations, it is best to purchase a modern inhaler to avoid burns. This procedure can be done using herbal decoctions, essential oils or special preparations.
Peculiarities of treatment in children
With a disease like bronchitis, the treatment of which at home should be reduced to the implementation of medical prescriptions and bed rest, you need to fightsure, especially in children. Since at a younger age this disease can most often have complications, and in infants it can even lead to death. With severe wheezing and a prolonged cough, the pediatrician may recommend inhalations with special drugs, such as Ventolin, Berodual, Lazolvan or their analogues. Their action is to quickly relieve bronchospasm, bronchodilator and expectorant abilities. In addition, often with the use of these drugs, the cough disappears completely already for 4-5 days. Although bronchitis, which home treatment has not been effective, is being treated for a fairly long period of time.
