What should I do if tracheitis recurs?

Tracheitis is a type of disease belonging to the respiratory department. The symptoms of this disease mainly include cough, bronchospasm, wheezing and sputum, which have an impact on people's physical and mental health, and also affect their daily life and work. Moreover, since tracheitis recurs frequently and cannot be cured for a long time, it is recommended that you use the right medicine to treat tracheitis and not treat it blindly. Next, let’s take a look at what to do if tracheitis recurs.

1. 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℃.

2. Feed more water: Children with bronchitis will have varying degrees of fever, and water evaporation is large, so you should pay attention to feeding the children more 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.

3. Adequate nutrition: When children suffer from bronchitis, 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.

4. Turn over and pat the back: When the child coughs and expectorates, it indicates that the secretions in the bronchial tubes 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.

5. Reduce fever: Children with bronchitis usually have a low-to-moderate fever. If the body temperature is below 38.5℃, there is generally no need to give antipyretics. The 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.

6. Maintain a good family environment: The child's room 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.

Tracheitis is a disease that is prone to recurring, so it is recommended that you treat the symptoms during treatment to avoid not curing the disease from the root. Of course, curing bronchitis is a long process, and you should also pay attention to daily care during the treatment, such as not smoking or drinking, drinking plenty of water, and eating a light diet.