Infant Cough,Children Cough, Nasal Congestion, Infant Cough Treatment : Home Remedies For Infant Cough And Nasal Congestion ?
Nasal Congestion
Nasal congestion and cough indicate that your infant has an upper respiratory tract infection. This is especially problematic because you are dealing with an infant who cannot communicate symptoms to you and also because the usual medication that you can take without having to go to the doctor cannot be
administered. The best forms of medication that you can administer are home remedies. You should talk to your doctor and find out if your daughter needs stronger medication.
Infants ( Children’s) Cough
Infants will have almost fifty attacks of cold until they are two years of age. This is because their immune systems are still developing. Human immunity is acquired. Think of the immune system’s identification of pathogens as a database of infections that have afflicted it in the past. This is the reason why infants and children are susceptible to many infections that are not caught by adults. With each infection that affects us, our immune system learns to identify the invading pathogen by its cellular protein signatures. In this regard, when we are adults, we do not even notice many of the infections that occur within us because they are destroyed well before they can cause fever or any symptoms associated with an infection. Over the course of the next two years, you infant will be susceptible to many infections especially viral ones. For this reason, it is very important that you regulate the child’s exposure to pathogenic bacteria by contact with other children and adults.
Home Remedies And Infant Cough Treatment
Treating nasal congestion in a child requires that you treat the underlying infection that is the real cause. This can be done by increasing the intake of garlic and honey for your infant. Honey would be quite easy to administer but make sure that it is not raw honey as raw honey often contains bacteria that can be very dangerous for children and infants. Garlic on the other hand would take a bit of convincing. It is a good idea to add garlic to a soup and offer this to your child. Next is the anti-inflammatory, natural medicine that is in the form of ginger and feverfew. This should be made as a tea, with dried ginger flakes added to the feverfew tea. Use honey again to sweeten this mixture. Ginger can be quite a pungent shock so you need to be liberal with the amount of honey you use. Finally, to decongest your baby’s nose, set a pot of boiling hot water on the floor. Take a blanket, create a tent like formation, so that the emanating steam is trapped, and sit inside with your child for an hour. The steam will help to loosen the mucous, allowing it to run freely. Since mucous contains the bacteria causing the infection, expulsion helps to minimize the amount of bacteria in the system and therefore keeps the infection under control.
