How to quickly cure a child's throat at home

Red sore throat is the most common symptom found in young children. The thing is that at the beginning of life, the child’s immunity is only forming, the body meets a huge number of bacteria, viruses and allergens, produces antibodies to them. Especially often sick children who begin to go to kindergarten, because there are concentrated a lot of pathogens. Many parents often wonder how to cure a sore throat in a child quickly. But the question is posed incorrectly, because a sore throat is only a symptom of a underlying disease, with which the main struggle must be waged. Today we’ll talk about two main diagnoses in which the throat most often hurts - SARS and bacterial infection, and also consider other serious diseases in which the throat can hurt.

How to cure a red throat in a child with ARVI

Viral colds are one of the most common diagnoses in preschoolers. As a rule, if the virus enters the body, it does not require any special treatment or medication. In no case should you treat a child with antibiotics for a viral cold - this is a big common mistake. Antibiotics do not act on the virus, but significantly undermine the body's immune defenses. A doctor must distinguish a viral cold from a bacterial infection. As a rule, SARS develops rapidly - starting with nasal congestion, flow of transparent mucus from the nose, high temperature. With SARS, the throat is bright red, without visible inclusions and plaque. You can cure a viral cold, and at the same time a red throat with ARVI, here are some tips and tricks.

The first and most important rule for the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections is a heavy drink. So plentiful that a child of three years of age must drink at least two liters of liquid per day. If you drink in this mode for several days, after 2-3 days the disease will recede, even the highest temperature will subside, nasal congestion will pass. Remember that the virus is washed out of the body only by liquid! You need to drink what the child likes - compotes, fruit drinks, juices, herbal infusions, teas. It’s still worth giving up milk, it’s an excellent food for germs in the throat.

Provide your child with access to fresh air, constantly ventilate the room, do wet cleaning, install a humidifier. Dry and hot air provokes additional nasal congestion and forms dry crusts in the nose. If your child feels well, do not give up walks in the fresh air. Do not be afraid that on the street the mucus from the nose began to stand out actively - this is a good sign, so the sinuses are cleaned.

To relieve a sore throat, you can give your child a weak solution with lemon juice. Citric acid not only relieves pain, but also disinfects the inflamed surface of the mucosa.

As a rule, with SARS, the sore throat is tolerable, not the same as with angina and other bacterial lesions. But sometimes children do not tolerate even simple redness in the throat due to the proximity of the nerve endings on the mucosa. In this case, you can use analgesic sprays and lozenges. Among them, one can distinguish Imudon, Lizobakt, Hexoral, Faringosept, etc. Choose a remedy suitable for the baby by age.

Give up sweets for a while, a large amount of carbohydrates is the food for bacteria. After sweets and cakes, the sore throat may intensify.

You can make the baby hot foot baths, it is very useful. But only if the baby does not have a temperature.Type hot water in a basin, add mustard and lower your feet into it with your child. As you get used to it, add hot water to the container. When the legs are well steamed, they need to be wiped with a towel, put on woolen socks and go to bed.

Warm the baby's throat with a warm scarf, you can make an iodine net on the skin, grease it with animal fat.

If the baby can already gargle, you can make him various solutions for rinsing. The procedures carried out every hour give a real result, the disease recedes literally in a day. You can gargle with a solution of furatsilina, chlorophyllipt, miramistin. You can gargle with decoctions of herbs - calendula, chamomile, plantain. It is useful to make sea water - dissolve salt, soda and iodine in a glass of warm water.

In addition, you need to ensure the peace of the vocal cords. Try to explain to the child that he should not speak out loud, sing, scream, talk in a whisper. Tell the baby that this is a game - you can not wake the dwarves who sleep in the corners of the room.

How to treat sore throat with angina

With a bacterial infection, the treatment of a sore throat is fundamentally different. As a rule, these are diagnoses such as tonsillitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis. If the throat is not just red, but it has a white coating, ulcers and blotches, there should be no doubt, this is a bacterium. Such diagnoses are much more difficult to tolerate - they are accompanied by high fever, intoxication, the child feels severe pain when swallowing, he loses his appetite, and in difficult cases, lymph nodes may increase. In this case, the following measures will help suppress illness and sore throat.

The doctor must prescribe antibiotics. Without them, the bacterial nature of the disease cannot be suppressed. Among them, Amoxicillin, Sumamed, Ceftriaxone, Ofloxacin, etc. Antibiotics are prescribed and taken according to the schedule - at regular intervals. Together with antibacterial therapy, beneficial bacteria are prescribed that will help to avoid disturbance of the intestinal microflora. Do not stop taking antibiotics ahead of time, otherwise the surviving bacteria will be able to restore their colony in a short time. If antibiotics do not help for 3 days, and the condition of the child worsens, the bacteria may not be sensitive to this type of antibiotic, you need to urgently tell the doctor about this and change the drug.

Be sure to use local sprays and tablets containing antibiotics in their composition - these are Grammidin, Septolete, Streptocide, Hexalysis, etc. Be sure to gargle with decoctions and antiseptics.

Often with angina, it happens that a child has a very high temperature, which does not go astray or goes astray for a short time. As a rule, an antibiotic first accumulates in the body and only the field of this begins to act. In this case, it’s very difficult to wait, so let’s tell you about an effective way to quickly treat your throat. It is necessary to wrap a piece of a sterile bandage on a finger or a clean pencil, moisten it in an antiseptic solution and carefully scrape purulent plaques from the throat mucosa. The temperature will drop instantly, there will be improvements. Be careful not to swallow pus - the child must spit everything out. If you cannot carry out this procedure yourself, take the child to an ENT doctor. He will professionally do a throat wash, the child will feel better.

It is very useful to make inhalations in which the child should breathe through the mouth. As a solution for inhalation, you can use antiseptic formulations and medicinal herbs. You can breathe steam over the pelvis, but it is much more efficient to use a nebulizer.

With angina, bed rest is required. You should also give your baby a warm drink to relieve a sore throat. Constant fluid intake ensures that germs are flushed from the throat, which greatly alleviates pain.It is necessary to give the child sparing food - no salty, spicy and sour dishes - all this irritates the mucous membrane.

What diseases can cause a sore throat?

As a rule, in the vast majority of cases, sore throat is caused by a virus or bacterium. But sometimes a sore throat may indicate other diagnoses.

1. Fungal stomatitis. Sometimes a fungal infection of the mucosa grows so much that ulcers form even on the throat. In this case, you need to pay attention to the antiseptic treatment of the mucosa and the administration of antifungal drugs.
2. Infectious mononucleosis. One of the obvious symptoms of this disease is a purulent throat, which does not go away even after washing with a doctor. The disease is accompanied by symptoms such as an increase in adenoids, lymph nodes and liver, fever, in some cases, a rash may occur.
3. Chickenpox. For this infectious disease, sore throat, redness of the mucosa are also characteristic. Chicken pox is accompanied by a characteristic rash with a water head.
4. Measles. With measles, the throat is also red, the disease is infectious, transmitted by airborne droplets. Measles is manifested by a characteristic rash, peeling of the skin, pigmentation, high temperature.
5. Scarlet fever. With scarlet fever, there is no purulent plaque on the throat, but the arches, tongue and tonsils acquire a bright red pigment, the throat seems to “glow”. Scarlet fever is accompanied by fever, intoxication, nausea, headache, a characteristic itchy rash.

In addition, the throat can hurt with diseases such as influenza, parainfluenza, diphtheria, adenoiditis, sinusitis, mycoplasmosis.

If all the symptoms of a child’s disease are familiar to you, you have no doubt in the diagnosis and you are not confused by anything, you can treat the child yourself (with ARVI). If you suspect the baby has the bacterial nature of the disease or an infectious disease, if the red throat is accompanied by a rash and other unfamiliar symptoms, it is better to consult a doctor for a correct diagnosis.

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