Don’y feed your children with cold medicine

Cough and cold season has arrived high, due to children’s own immune system is weak, they are easy flu, which so many parents a headache. Nevertheless, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations thereon, may make many parents by surprise: Even if a child got a cold, do not give them to take cold medicine.

In addition, the Baltimore health officials also warned parents not to 5 years and 5 years of age, children are given specifically for them, designed to ease symptoms of cold and cough of non-prescription drugs. American Academy of Pediatrics recently a guest expert, Dr. David Levy, a local health programs, spoke to the children are given medicines to avoid and why.

Levy said: “We are talking about every kind of cold cough medicines for children. These drugs contain dextromethorphan hydrochloride and two aniline-ming, they are marked as ‘dm’ or ‘dph’. Normally, cold cough medicines contain antihistamines, cough inhibitors and decongestant agent component. “Some studies have shown that these drugs not have any effect on children, even worse, they may cause side effects, resulting in children are more serious symptoms.

Levy also pointed out that if the child is really cold, and parents not to have blanket exclusion of all colds. Acetaminophen or ibuprofen can ease the child’s fever. But children, even without the aid of any medicine, they also recovering from a cold.

Levy said: “The air flow in fact is very important. You should be through the evaporator or humidifier to increase moisture in the air around the child. In addition, you can also use saline nose drops. That they which contains drug ingredients. For those not yet able to Suction the nose kids, you can by means of rubber nasal tube. Finally, you need to give kids something boil chicken – but still need a large number of studies to support this conclusion. chicken soup really worked to prevent the common cold. Of course, experience problem, you’d better consult pediatric doctor. ”

Whatever the disease, prevention is definitely the key, Levy suggested that children under 5 years of age should be vaccinated in advance. In addition, keep your hands clean is another important factor in prevention of colds. Once a child suffering from a cold, this time Ideally, parents should leave them at home so that they will transmit the virus to other children in the school.