How To Treat Colds In Children


Do not stuff the kids and drugs do not sit at home

Holidays have ended, and experts predict the next epidemic of colds. Begins, as always, with the children: they infect each other in kindergartens and schools, bring diseases home, "fall" infection with adults - and so the circle.
Parents crook trying to cure the child as soon as possible. Turns out, it is not always necessary.

The views of parents
If a child is constantly ill, his poor immunity.

Expert Opinion
"In all the major cities of the children suffer from an average of 10 times a year and this is the norm - says Vladimir Tatochenko, Professor, and Senior Research Fellow Research Center for Children's Health. - SARS does not occur in low immunity, and for good, in the body, which has no experience of meeting with the virus. Do not be upset that your child is often sick, you must be happy that he often gets well! So his body is fighting in this battle hardened. "

The views of parents
Better longer hold the recovered child home and not lead directly into the garden.

Expert Opinion
Do not get too long to sit at home after an illness. The Board of physicians: today slept temperature - tomorrow the garden. If you long to sit at home, for this time in your child care facility already beginning to circulate new viruses to which the child's body is not familiar. So often it turns out that the kid, not having to come into the garden, again ill.

The views of parents
Antibiotics necessarily need to overcome the most common cold.

Expert Opinion
Many believe that the most effective remedy against the common cold - antibiotics. But the local doctor examines a sick child often and assigns a hot drink and vitamins.

Parental outrage usually no limit: doctor - not a professional, do not want to be treated. Doctors complain, on the one hand, the specificity of SARS does not require use of immunomodulatory drugs and the more antibiotics, on the other hand, disgruntled parents, if you do not get the desired assignments, ready to defend the right to correct, according to them, treatment, and even come to grips with physicians.

"Many parents simply require that children prescribed antibiotics - says Oksana Kolosov, head of the Club of practitioners. - But what is the common cold? When her symptoms as a diagnosis is often referred to ARI (acute respiratory viral infection). Explanation of the abbreviations indicates nebakterialny nature of the disease, and antibiotics act on the bacteria, but not viruses. Therefore, assign them to a viral infection is useless. Moreover, such an appointment would be harmful, because antibiotics will reduce the activity of the immune system of its own and only hinder the body fight viruses that cause a cold. "

So if the doctor does not assign you a potent drug for colds, but this is primarily manifested his concern about health.

The views of parents
If a child has a fever, it is necessary as soon as possible to bring down the temperature.

Expert Opinion
"Even antiviral therapy for SARS is often unnecessary: ​​2-3 days for the child slight fever, runny nose, then it all goes away, - says Vladimir Tatochenko. - Nature of SARS is that there is no rational treatment, and there is a rational attitude. No need to rush. Let the child poboleet. The tablet should provide antipyretic, when the temperature rises by 40 ° C, and need not reduce its rate to and up to 38 ° C. Temperature - this is an adequate immune response to the disease. "

The views of parents
Drugs that are on everyone's lips, the most effective.

Expert Opinion
In the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections are frequently used drugs that are on everyone's lips: is advertising on TV and in the media. Are they necessary?
"The results of clinical trials in a number of drugs with antiviral and immunomodulatory properties demonstrated that they can decrease the temperature for 6 hours earlier than in vivo. Is it worth it for the 6 hours? After all, any drug - a chemical substance that affects the body of your child, - said Vladimir Tatochenko. - Antiviral agents for the treatment and prevention of SARS can be effective if you catch the virus in the early hours. But you need to treat them very carefully, because for a number of drugs are actively marketing the results of clinical trials seem unconvincing. Therefore, the reason to appoint their children have no doctors. "

Do not drink anything that advertise! Only advice of the specialist with a medical background can speed up the healing process.

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