Three misconceptions about children suffering from a cold

Cold, is the baby of the most common diseases, especially infants and preschoolers colds. Influenza can occur throughout the year to winter-spring season and more common when the weather suddenly changes, the main air droplets. Some parents in nursing babies when the flu and respiratory disease, there are many errors, the experts remind parents to pay attention.

 Misconception 1: coughing, sneezing use my hand

 Many parents teach babies: first reaction when you sneeze to cover their hands. Although the cover of the move is right, to avoid the spread of germs, but the cover is the wrong hands. Infectious diseases, a doctor explained, because most people covered their hands after sneezing or coughing will not immediately wash your hands, so a large number of bacteria left in the hands, it is possible through the touch of transmission to others is also possible to bring their own bacteria and then .

 Therefore, We must let the baby’s attention to wash their hands and access to public places, particularly hospitals, stations, high-risk area, we must cultivate the habit of washing hands to go home.

 Small with disabilities: The United States Centers for Disease Control Department’s proposals for washing hands, preferably about 20 seconds, the time is almost silently in your mind a happy birthday twice.

 Misconception 2: no special care baby have a stuffy nose

 Baby nasal congestion might affect the baby’s diet, sleep. As the nose is all blocked feeding when the baby needs to breathe through the mouth can make baby absorbing large quantities of air may eventually cause vomiting baby, or Tunai seriously affect the baby’s normal diet; at night to sleep because of the baby’s stuffy nose, may be would be difficult to sleep, or snoring.

 Once a baby has a cold it should be treated immediately. Sometimes the adults may make mistakes in baby cold aggravated development of stuffy nose, and throat with sputum, or pediatric pneumonia. Seriously affect the baby’s normal development.

 Baby nasal congestion nursing methods:

 1, if the nose, you can use the nose suction devices, or their parents can be a soft handkerchief wipe out the nose, because your baby’s skin is very delicate, wiping more will make baby feel uncomfortable, so after the free Ca Biti wet towels trend a muffle muffle , and then lightly coated with a little oil to prevent cracking of skin pain; Bishi if it is dry, you can buy a special folder Bishi a small clip, plastic, small head, so when the baby was asleep folder, Action to be about to light.

 2, with cotton twist, and baby nose to spend the same size of the sliver, the first water soaked into the baby’s nostrils moist Bishi, and then removed with a dry cotton sliver into Bishi stick out.

 3, take cod liver oil or saline drops in the nostrils of a drop, this will soften Bishi, a moment will bring a child sneezes Bishi to bring out.

 4, at night in open air-conditioned rooms put a humidifier can increase the indoor humidity to ease the child caused due to air dry and stuffy nose.

 Misconception 3: The cold aversion to cold, sweating can be cured

 TCM treatment is sweating cold cold solution of the table, some people have a smattering of knowledge, suffering from cold after cold and heat does not distinguish actual situation were all sweating to find all kinds of ways to solve the table, sauna, drinking ginger syrup, hooded cover their Khan, drink, strenuous exercise and so forth. In fact they may not be suitable for all cold patients.

 Alternating hot and cold sauna will weaken the body’s resistance to influenza virus, while excessive sweating can be exacerbated because of illness, especially fever is even more inappropriate to make method has been applied during the period; Jiangtang cold water treatment of a cold, but cold cold clothes as if the fire turned over to the oil; hooded cover their sweat easily lead to water shortages arising from variable tissues disease; alcohol will increase the mucosal vascular dilatation and congestion of the respiratory tract secretions increase, further aggravating the condition; strenuous exercise the body to increase energy consumption, not only so that lower resistance, the body of oxygen consumption also increased significantly, and even heavier burden on heart and lung and other organs, but also is not conducive to cold recovery. Therefore, the patient must not not do it recklessly Khan analysis, especially children.

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