How to calm a child's cough?

If you do not know how to calm a coughchild, then use the few tips presented in this article. But the main thing - always consult with your doctor, which medicines and how much you can give your child.

Dry cough

Drugs that help with dry cough, have irritating effect and contribute to the intensive separation of mucus:

tablets and lozenges for resorption and lozenges;
syrups based on herbs;
drugs with combined action.

The most effective soothe dry cough is the combination drugs.

Folk remedies against dry cough:

honey and freshly squeezed black radish juice in a 1: 1 ratio - a teaspoon several times a day;
warm fresh milk with the addition of melted butter and honey;
juice 1 lemon, 2 tbsp. l. glycerin and 1 tbsp. l. honey - a teaspoon several times a day;
inhalation with essential oils of mint, lemon balm, eucalyptus.
herbal decoctions and a weak solution of baking soda.

Moist cough

When wet cough appoint medicines that have three main properties:

means with expectorant action increase the amount of mucus and promote its rapid removal from the respiratory tract;
mucolytics that dilute mucus;
complex preparations with liquefying and expectorant effect on the basis of plant and synthetic components.

How to ease a child's coughing with folk remedies?

Medicinal infusion of a herbal mixture of flowerschamomile, calendula, coltsfoot and plantain, calendula, plantain, chamomile. Herbs insist in a thermos for two hours and take half a cup before meals.
The wiped fruits of the viburnum, mixed with honey - 1 tbsp. l. 4 times a day.
Rinsing badger or goose fat, mixed with a few drops of eucalyptus oil.

At any cough it is recommended to give to children as much as possible warm drinking, to air a premise and to spend in it wet cleaning.

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