If the disease is treated incorrectly, it drags on for weeks, or even months. So that it does not develop into a more serious, chronic form, it is necessary to understand the causes of coughing, to understand whether it is necessary to fight it and how. According to doctors, coughing is a body defense that helps clear the airways of pathogenic microbes or various foreign objects. Cough itself is not considered a disease, but it clearly indicates that not everything is fine with the body.
Persistent barking or dry cough is a symptom of such forms of acute respiratory infections as pharyngitis, laryngitis or tracheitis. Therefore, it is necessary to treat not the cough itself, but the underlying disease that causes it. If the baby is prone to allergic diseases, then a barking cough in a child can also be observed. Howtreat it to avoid the occurrence of bronchial asthma in the future? Here the help of a doctor is simply necessary.
Children often cough due to dust, food or small foreign particles getting into their throats. Even too dry air or various chemical or household preparations can cause excruciating coughing fits.
How to treat a barking cough in a child? First of all, you need to show the baby to the doctor. It is he who, after conducting additional studies if necessary, can establish the real cause of the disease and advise what needs to be done so that the coughing sputum leaves. After all, it is the transition of a barking cough into a cough with sputum discharge that indicates the beginning of recovery.
Very often, doctors do not recommend getting too carried away with various medications if a child has a dry, barking cough. What to treat? To suppress the strong, painful attacks that occur with a cold, only antitussive drugs will help. By acting on certain parts of the brain responsible for coughing, drugs reduce their sensitivity. If the cough is barking, then the child should not take expectorants or mucolytics during this period.
Very effective remedies are preparations based on medicinal plants that help cure a barking cough in a child. How to treat and what should be done if a persistent cough does not go away for a long time? For example, giving your baby syrup made from licorice root.
Cough herbs such as thyme, coltsfoot, psyllium and others will also help. Ready-made medicinal breast fees can be found at any pharmacy.
For various diseases of the respiratory tract, doctors recommend inhalation, especially when a child has a barking cough. What to treat? Ordinary mineral water! Such inhalations with mineral water soften the cough and relieve the baby's condition.
Ginger is a miracle cure when a barking cough in a child cannot be cured. How to treat - you ask? Tea or ginger root drink mixed with lemon juice and honey. Pour this mixture with boiling water - and after 20 minutes the healing tea is ready. Both tasty and he althy! Sometimes you can replace lemon with orange, and honey with sugar. The quality of treatment will not suffer from this.
