What are the home care methods for children with bronchitis?

Bronchitis is a common respiratory disease in children with a high prevalence, which can occur all year round and peaks in winter and spring. When suffering from bronchitis, children often have varying degrees of fever, cough, loss of appetite or vomiting, diarrhea, etc., and smaller children may also have bronchiolitis such as wheezing and wheezing. Although a small number of children may develop bronchial pneumonia, most of the children are milder in the treatment of home medicine and care. Parents should follow the doctor's advice to give them time to take medication and do their home care:

What are the home care methods for children with bronchitis?

1. The condition of tube inflammation, therefore, parents should increase or decrease the clothes in time with the temperature change, especially when sleeping, the children should be covered with quilts to keep the body temperature above 36.5 °C.



2. More water: Children with bronchitis have different degrees of fever, water evaporation is greater, should pay attention to give children more water. It can be supplemented with sugar water or sugar brine. It can also be supplemented with rice soup and egg soup. The diet is mainly semi-liquid, in order to increase the body's water and meet the needs of the body.

3. Adequate nutrition: Children with bronchitis consume more nutrients, combined with fever and bacterial toxins affecting gastrointestinal function, digestion and malabsorption, so the lack of nutrition in children can not be ignored. In this regard, parents should adopt a small amount of meals to give children a light, nutritious, balanced and easily digestible semi-liquid or liquid diet, such as porridge, boiled noodles, egg yolk, fresh vegetables, fruit juice and so on.

4. Turn over the back: When the child coughs and coughs, it indicates that the endocrine secretions are increased. In order to promote the smooth discharge of secretions, nebulizer inhalation can be used to help sputum, 2-3 times a day, 5-20 minutes each time. If it is an infant, in addition to taking a back, it should also help to turn over, every 1-2 hours, so that the child maintains a semi-recumbent position, which is beneficial for sputum discharge.

5. Antipyretic:pediatric bronchitis is mostly moderate to low fever, if the body temperature is below 38.5 °C, generally do not need to give antipyretics, mainly for the treatment of the cause, fundamentally solve the problem. If the body temperature is high, the older child can be physically cooled, that is, wet the head with a cold towel or bath with warm water, but this method should not be used by young children, and if necessary, the drug should be cooled.

6. Maintain a good family environment: the children should be warm, ventilated and well lit, and have a certain humidity in the air to prevent excessive drying. If there are smokers in the family, it is best to quit smoking or go outside to prevent the harmful effects of smoke.