Why the child does not breathe nose?
Light mucus from the nostrils and difficulty breathing -signs of a simple runny nose, which doctors call rhinitis. This common childhood illness does not worsen the general condition, lasts 5-7 days, and is easily cured.
If a child's nose is blocked, what are the risks? Photo: Getty But there are also more complex diseases that disrupt nasal breathing. Among them:
- SARS, flu. Liquid nasal discharge accompanied by a sharp rise in temperature, cough, headache, fever.
- Rhinopharyngitis. At the same time, the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx are inflamed. Cough, fever, diarrhea are added to the cold.
- Sinusitis Infection or allergies cause severe swelling of the sinuses. Rarely found in children under 4 years. It is expressed by nasal congestion, greenish discharge, headache, lack of appetite.
- Allergy. Swelling of the nasal cavity, the body reacts to stimuli - certain foods, dust, animal hair, tobacco smoke.
- Adenoids. Excessively enlarged tonsils in the nasopharynx close the nasal passages, causing headaches and insomnia.
- Polyps. Benign tumors on the mucous membrane, complicating breathing and smell.
All of the listed diseases can develop after an untreated common cold.
How to help the child?
Simple rhinitis does not require serious treatment.medical intervention. The baby needs to breathe easier by regularly sucking mucus out of the nostrils with an aspirator in the form of a rubber bulb. After each cleaning, the nostrils are washed with salt water. To ensure the salt concentration is correct, you can buy a saline solution or a spray with sea salt at the pharmacy. Home remedies can be dripped into the baby's nose:
- melted butter;
- breast milk;
- aloe juice, diluted with warm water in a ratio of 1 to 1;
- warm decoction of chamomile.
Each product is used 3-4 times a day, 1a drop in the nasal passage. For children over 2 years old, rinsing with salt water also helps. You can make an iodine mesh on the soles, put on socks with dry mustard powder at night, steam your feet in a basin with the addition of 1 tbsp. mustard. At elevated temperatures, warming agents cannot be used! The baby cannot breathe through the nose for more than a week, the snot has become thick, greenish? This means that folk remedies do not help, it is time to see a doctor for an examination and prescription of medications. See also:
