How to prevent and treat bronchitis?

Because the baby's immune system is weak and the temperature is low in winter, bronchitis

How to prevent and treat bronchitis?

1. First of all, we should pay attention to the child's temperature:

Don't dress him too warmly and give him proper cold-resistance exercise. The temperature is high. Don’t just worry about your child being cold. What’s more important is to pay attention to not letting your child get too hot, so that their clothes won’t get soaked with sweat, making them more likely to catch a cold. If your child has a cold, give him or her some medication as soon as possible and don't delay the treatment.

2. Keep warm:

Temperature changes, especially cold stimulation can reduce the local resistance of the bronchial mucosa and aggravate bronchitis. Therefore, parents should add or remove clothes for their children in time as the temperature changes, especially cover the children with quilts when sleeping to keep the body temperature above 36.5℃.

3. Feed more water:

Bronchiolitis can cause varying degrees of fever and a large amount of water evaporation, so you should pay attention to giving the child plenty of water. It can be supplemented with sugar water or sugar and salt water, or with rice soup or egg soup. The diet is mainly semi-liquid to increase the water content in the body and meet the body's needs.

4. Adequate nutrition: When children suffer from bronchiolitis, they consume a lot of nutrients. In addition, fever and bacterial toxins affect gastrointestinal function and cause poor digestion and absorption. Therefore, nutritional deficiencies in the children's bodies cannot be ignored. In this regard, parents should adopt the method of small meals and frequent meals for their children, and provide them with light, nutritious, balanced and easily digestible semi-liquid or liquid diets, such as porridge, cooked noodles, egg custard, fresh vegetables, fruit juice, etc.

5. Turn over and pat the back:

When the child coughs and expectorates, it indicates that the bronchial secretions have increased. In order to promote the smooth discharge of secretions, nebulizer inhalation can be used to help expectorate, 2-3 times a day, each time for 5-20 minutes. If it is an infant, in addition to patting the back, you should also help the child turn over once every 1-2 hours, so that the child remains in a semi-recumbent position to facilitate the discharge of phlegm.

6. Antipyretic:

Bronchiolitis usually presents with low to moderate fever. If the body temperature is below 38.5℃, there is generally no need to give antipyretics. Treatment should focus on the cause of the disease to solve the problem fundamentally. If the body temperature is high, older children can be cooled physically, such as by applying a cold towel to the head or bathing with warm water. However, this method is not suitable for young children, and medication should be used to reduce the temperature if necessary.

7. Maintain a good family environment:

The room where the child lives should be warm, well ventilated and lit, and the air should have a certain humidity to prevent excessive dryness. If there are smokers at home, it is best to quit smoking or go outdoors to smoke to prevent the adverse effects of smoke on the child.