Almost all parents face such a problem as a runny nose from the first days of a child's life. There are many reasons for its occurrence. Rhinitis can be caused by both viruses and bacteria, as well as mixed infections.
Often, a mild runny nose disappears within two weeks if the correct treatment regimen is followed - moist air, walking outside, timely instillation of the nose. But there are also complex protracted rhinitis. They cannot be cured with proper preventive measures and simple medicines.
When is it appropriate to use compound nasal drops?
In order to comprehensively influence the infection of the nasopharynx and relieve inflammation, complex drops are used. Their use is also appropriate in the treatment of rhinitis in children.
Doctors can also prescribe them for children's sinusitis, sinusitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, and allergic inflammation. Complex drops are called so because they include several drugs for the treatment of the above diagnoses and auxiliary components of natural origin and more.
You should know that they are sold in specialized pharmacies for their manufacture. Therapeutic composition of complex nose drops for childrenis made by the attending physician, who prescribes the medicine.
Currently, not every city has a specialized pharmacy for the production of complex nasal drops, so many people try to find a prescription in medical information sources, because the reviews about them from those who have tried them in practice are mostly positive.
Many parents note the fact that even chronic rhinitis goes away forever after using them. Inflammation and swelling of the nasopharynx also disappear, and the diseases do not remind of themselves with every cold snap, a strong immunity of the body to infections that cause ENT diseases is developed.
Only a doctor writes a prescription for complex drops! Self-activity in relation to the preparation of these can be fraught with complications.
Benefits of complex nasal drops
Complex drops for children at the same time affect the causes of the common cold. It is often not possible to determine offhand what caused the nose disease - viruses, bacteria or fungal infections, and maybe allergies. Therefore, all possible causes can be affected immediately by instilling a complex composition of the solution into the nose.
The second positive aspect of using them is the individual approach of an ENT doctor to a small patient.
Disadvantages of complex nose drops
Complex drops also have disadvantages. They can cause complications. Therefore, a doctor always prescribes them to a child in the case when the disease cannot be influenced by simple or combined means.
With a common coldcomplex drops are not used!
Until the end, the effectiveness of complex drops has not been proven, there is not enough laboratory research, so they should not be trusted too much.
Mixed multi-drug solution will keep for two weeks.
The cost of a complex remedy is higher than the usual drops for a child's nose.
Where can I order and buy them?
As mentioned above, you can buy complex nasal drops for children in specialized pharmacies for their manufacture. The doctor writes a prescription, and the pharmacists, according to his recommendations, make a special mixture of several drugs.
You can only buy them with a prescription. Without a doctor's prescription, no specialized pharmacy will sell you a complex drug, especially if it is intended for use in the treatment of a child.
It cannot be prepared at home, there is a possibility of incorrect selection of ingredients for mixing and determining their dosage.
Components of complex nasal drops
Complex drops are used with caution in children. The composition of these may contain vasoconstrictive elements, hormonal, antibiotic, immunomodulatory, antihistamine, antibacterial, antiviral. Such a set of components can be equally useful and at the same time harmful.
To describe more specifically complex drops, the composition of which is intended for the treatment of children, then it is necessary to emphasize that they include only drops,designed specifically for the treatment of small patients.
Thus, vasoconstrictor drops can relieve inflammation in the nose, swelling, due to which the child can breathe freely. Most often, Naphthyzin drops are used. However, reviews of this children's medicine today are not as positive as negative, it is not applicable in the treatment of children under two years of age, so doctors are more inclined to mix nasal drops such as Vibrocil, Polydex, Sanorin, Nazivin, Otrivin.
Antihistamines affect allergic rhinitis. Most often, either the Dimedrol solution or the Suprastin solution are added to the composition of complex drops for children.
Means that help protect the nasopharynx from the multiplication of harmful bacteria - drugs "Gentamicin", "Cefazolin", "Lincomycin", the use of the solution "Furacilin" is not excluded.
Hormonal drugs relieve inflammation of the nasopharynx, swelling. In children's complex drops, the drugs "Nazobek" and "Nasonex" are often used.
With complex forms of rhinitis and sinusitis, doctors can add aloe juice, pine, menthol or eucalyptus oil to complex drops. Before adding them, it is clarified whether the child has an allergic reaction to these components.
Procedure for instillation of complex drops
Complex drops are not stored for a long time. Instructions for themoften says that they need to be used within seven days. Therefore, after this period, it is not recommended to continue treatment with them.
Often the effect comes after a week of their application. They are buried one or two drops into the nasal passages of the child several times a day. Before instillation, do not forget to rinse the baby's nose with a solution of sea s alt and a special pipette for pumping out snot, remove them from the nasal passages so that the drops come into contact with the nasal mucosa, and do not come out with the mucus.
Since the drops can cause a burning sensation, it is recommended to drop a drop of vegetable oil into each nasal passage five minutes after instillation.
If it is difficult for a child to instill a nose, then cotton swabs soaked in the prepared solution are used, which are placed in the nostrils for five to ten minutes, after which vegetable oil is also recommended.
Below are three recipes for complex baby drops, but we warn you that preparing them yourself at home is dangerous for the he alth of your children. These should include drugs that can affect your child individually.
The recipes described in this article are for informational purposes, but in no way recommendatory for practical use.
Complex drops are authorized to prepare only a professional ENT doctor.
Recipe 1
Complex drops for children can be made by mixing the following drugs in the appropriate proportion: "Methasone 1%" (0.5 ml) + "Lincomycin 30%" (2 ml) +Dioxidin 1% (2.5 ml) + Nasonex (1 ml).
Recipe 2
Another option for complex drops for the treatment of rhinitis in children: Nazivin (one bottle) + Lincomycin 10% (one bottle) + Nasonex (one bottle) + aloe juice (1 ml).
Recipe 3
"Vibrocil" (one bottle) + "Lincomycin 10%" (one bottle) + "Dimedrol 1%" (one ampoule).
Complex Nasal Drops - a mixture of drugs that treat diseases of the nasopharynx with a physical solution, water, antibacterial oils, combined drops for the common cold.
Drops containing more than two or three drugs are complex and should only be used under the supervision of a doctor.
The preparation of complex nasal preparations does not stop at these three recipes. You can combine many medicines with each other, the main thing is not to concentrate those that cause too pronounced side effects.
As mentioned above, today there is no evidence-based scientific basis that the combination of several drugs is beneficial for the body of children, so complex nasal drops are rarely used. These can be the most complex and advanced diseases of the nasopharynx of an inflammatory nature.
It should also be noted that complex nasal drops can be instilled with conjunctivitis in the eyes and ears with otitis media.
You should not follow the recommendations of friends who allegedly prepare an effective cure for the common cold at home during the treatment of your child. Not every baby can take the miracle homemade elixir.
The wrong combination of drops and other components can lead to dryness of the nasal mucosa or burns. It is more difficult to cure complications than to find the cause of a runny nose together with your doctor.
Complex drops are recommended for prescribing to children after three years. They are contraindicated for infants and children under three years of age. For their treatment, factory-made combined preparations are used.
Self-treatment of protracted and chronic colds in children is not the task of a mother, but an ENT doctor. Only after the examination can one act according to its instructions.
