How to determine the child's cough? Symptoms, signs, prevention and treatment of cough

Does the long dry cough say that the child has a cough? In the article - on the manifestations of children's infection and the ways of combating her.

When a child falls into the team, whether it is a playground, a kindergarten or school, it turns out to be in the risk of a disease with certain infectious diseases. One of these is pertussus. According to statistics, under the age of 5 years they are overcome 60% of children. Parents necessarily need to know how cough is manifested and how to treat it.

General information about the disease

Poklush is an acute inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory tract of infectious genesis. It refers to the category of childhood infections, since, in most cases, they are overdone to the five-year-old age. But there are rands in the late childhood, adolescent, adult and even old age.

Bordetella Pertussis - Cockup Cauden.

The causative agent of the disease is Bordetella Pertussis bacterium, which was opened in 1906. It is striking the mucous upper respiratory tract and causes strong inflammation.

IMPORTANT: If a person does not pick up a cough, the likelihood of a disease in contact with Bordetella pertussis is 100%

A cough vaccination is included in the ACDC complex, it is required for all children and is included in the calendar. It forms sufficient immunity, but, unfortunately, it is not very resistant. After 5 years after the last vaccination, the body's protection in front of the Bordetella pertussis begins to weaken, in 12 years it disappears completely.

For children from birth and up to the year, Polysh is a serious danger: he is heavier, the child is hospitalized, sometimes even in intensive care. From the suffocation, from a spasmodic cough, 1-2 infants are dying from 100 sick.

Children from year tolerate the disease is much easier, and if they are vaccinated, well-being recovered.

In persons who have suffered a cough one day, immunity to it, as a rule, is formed for life. Repeated diseases in adulthood and old age are rare, symptoms in patients are blurred. Usually, such a cough is confused with ORVI and, sometimes, do not even turn to the doctor. Yes, they themselves tolerate the disease easily, but during the distance they are infectious and are dangerous to others.

How is cough in children?

Cocal - infection is highly contagious. Bordetella Pertussis bacterium is transmitted only from a person to a man with air-droplet with:

• conversation
• si'ania
• cough

IMPORTANT: Bordetella Pertussis very quickly dies in the environment, so infection through toys, hygiene objects, any other household ways excluded

Cocal is transmitted by airborne droplets.

A child or adult patient is a danger to those surrounding from the moment his cough and the next 2 weeks appear - 1 month, and in the absence of treatment with antibiotics up to 3 months.

The diseased child needs to isolate at this time. Walking with children, attend kindergarten or school he is prohibited.

During the incubation period (Bordetella Pertussis can "sleep" in the body from 5 days to 3 weeks) is not contagious.

How to recognize a cough in children?

A child's cough is always a reason to appeal to the doctor. If he is dry, parlor, the doctor must be eliminated by the cough.

Cocal is manifested by the attacks of dry suffocating cough.

Usually, the cough begins like an ARVI, with:

• rising temperatures up to 38 - 39 degrees
• rinita
• pain in the throat
• light thorny cough
• general ailment

After 5 days - a week, if the patient does not take antibiotics, the recovery does not occur, the cough does not become productive. On the contrary, it is enhanced, occurs at the attacks, becomes suffocating. On the day, the patient may happen about t 20 to 50 such attacks. In the evening and night, they are rapidly and become stronger.

IMPORTANT: Cook's attack with cough can last up to 2 minutes, and it is really scary. The patient literally chips. It can be sick. Frequent cases of loss of consciousness

Cough with cough is particularly strong in the evening and night.

Persons immunized from Bordetella Pertussis, the disease can flow erased, they can simply pumble within a few weeks. At the same time, there are no other symptoms of the disease.

About the symptoms and treatment of cough

Syptoms of cough in children up to year

The older children in the family, the parents of a child with whooping cough can infect up to one year. If they are vaccinated or hurt them before, they can not even know how contagious they are.

Pertussis is particularly dangerous in children under one year.

At this age, the baby still can not describe my feelings, but parents need to smell a rat if.:

• the baby is breathing hard, he did not seem to have enough air
• his bouts of dry cough began, accompanied by suffocation

IMPORTANT: Dry cough and signs of choking in infants can also be caused by obstructive bronchitis or stenosing laryngitis. These states are no less dangerous than the whooping cough. Mortality from them too high. Therefore, if a child under one year began to cough, it is necessary to immediately see a doctor

Complications of pertussis in children

Complications of pertussis occur due to:

1. Stop breathing during attacks that last from a few seconds to several minutes. Brain experiencing hypoxia, due to which the child may go into convulsions, develop encephalopathy, have other complications of the central nervous system
2. Secondary bacterial infection. Weakened by illness immunity and inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract - are excellent breeding ground for pathogenic microorganisms. Streptococci, pneumococci, staphylococci and other bacteria can cause bronchitis, pneumonia, otitis media. Against the background of inflammation and edema of the larynx often develops laryngospasm
3. Severe coughing. There are cases of lung rupture with pneumothorax, rib fractures during coughing attacks. Also. Can rupture eardrums burst blood vessels in the internal organs, and brain

Diagnosis of pertussis. When hand over the analysis?

If it seems that the child has whooping cough, it is observed Pediatrics and Pediatric infectious disease.
The diagnosis is confirmed by the analysis:

• complete blood count (it will leukocytosis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate and lymphocytosis)
• a blood test for the presence of antibodies to the bacterium Bordetella pertussis
• bacteriological sputum culture from the nasopharynx

Whooping cough is confirmed by a blood test.

What if suspected whooping cough in a child?

At the slightest idea that a child whooping cough, especially if he is not yet a year, you must consult your doctor. According to the survey results, he will confirm or refute the diagnosis, determine the real cause of the cough, temperature and malaise, select treatment.

How to cure whooping cough in a child? Drugs and medicines

If the child's cough is confirmed, the doctor decides the question of his treatment. Baby age, usually, hospitalized. Elder children treat at home if the disease did not have a heavy form, there were no complications on her background.

Home parents must create a sick cough to the child special conditions:

• limit his communication with other family members
• regularly ventilate the room in which the patient is
• twice a day to do in the house wet cleaning
• moisturize in the house air
• feed the baby fractionally exclusively healthy, hypoallergenic food
• organize him gentle mode of physical activity
• on the fifth day of reception of antibiotics to withdraw a child for a walk on good weather

IMPORTANT: People who are in contact with the patients with a kid must receive a certain prophylactic treatment

Drug powdles treat:

1. Antibiotics. This can be a time-tested Biseptol. Also, Bordetella pertussis is sensitive to macrolides and cephalosporins. The child is prescribed erythromycin, azithromycin, Sumamed, Clarithromycin. They are taken by a course at 5 - 7 days in doses defined by the attending physician
   

   Sumamed is an antibiotic from a group of macrolides, which can be treated by a cough in children.

2. Antihistamines. Since Bordetella pertussis has histaminesensitizing activity, Supratin, Zetin, L - Tset are prescribed children
   

   The allergic component of the pertussis will remove the antihistamine drug.

3. Beneficule. As a rule, it is a nonarcotic sync, libeksin or stop vehicles
4. Bronchodulators. For the purpose of the lulling of the airways are appointed and ngalyatsi with salbutol, Berodual
5. Soothing. To calm the coughing child, it can be prescribed by Valerian or mother

IMPORTANT: Patients with a severe cough form, which are in the hospital, recommended hardware hydrocerapy, treatment with glucocorticosteroids (prednisone)

A child who is treated at home, the doctor will advise to perform physical and breathing exercises that remove the symptoms of a cough.

Treatment of cough in children by folk remedies

People's treatment of cough must accompany traditional. Until the Bordetella Pertussis bacterium is neutralized, the recovery will not happen.

Folk remedies with cough applied auxiliary.

Apply folk remedies Parents can be to:

• easy the kashel child
• return it temperature
• night protective forces of his body

RECIPE: Sunflower seeds with honey cough in whooping cough
Needed: Peeled sunflower seeds - 2 tablespoons. spoons of honey - 1 tbsp. spoon, water - 2 cups.

Seeds pulverized in a mortar or a coffee grinder, stirred with honey. The mixture is poured water, brought to a boil and boiled for half an hour. Give the child 1 tbsp. spoon mixture three times a day, until he stops coughing

RECIPE: Butter with honey cough in whooping cough
Requires: 50 g of honey, 50 g of butter, vanilla pinch.
The oil was softened at room temperature, is mixed with honey, vanillin was added. This tool is also necessary to give the child three times a day for as long as he coughs

RECIPE: Infusion of red clover
Needed: clover flowers - 1 tbsp. Spoon, water - 200 ml.

clover blossoms and zaparivayut pour boiling water for 1 hour, then filtered, Distribute infusion to 4 doses, per day of his drink. This should be done before a meal.

Prevention of pertussis

There is no other preventive measures against pertussis than vaccinated. It should be well aware of parents who are opposed to vaccinations.

Prevention of pertussis - is a vaccine DTP.

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