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Some things parents can do at home to help them recover soon:
Nasal drops with physiological saline for children 4-5 times / day, especially before feeding or sleeping to help children sleep better and eat easier. Before giving children a nose, parents should wash their hands.
Use only disposable paper towels to blow or wipe the child’s nose; avoid using a milk towel repeatedly because there is a greater risk of infection.
Give children lots of water to dilute phlegm.
Divide meals to help digestion and anorexia.
When sleeping, let your child lie on their side with a pillow higher than usual.
Limit the use of the nose suction mouth for children because there are many bacteria in the mother’s mouth, should only be used in emergencies.
When children have respiratory infections, they often cough or vomit, which is a natural reflex for expelling foreign substances from the airway. At that time, parents should support children with phlegm by patting their backs.
Absolutely not for children to use cough suppressants without the appointment of a specialist because it will make mucus thick, sticky, and difficult to expel.
Parents absolutely should not practice the technique of sputtering at home. This method should only be done under the direction of a physician and by the VLTL trained expert.
Some other notes:
Flapping phlegm with phlegm is an adjunctive treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to determine what is the cause to decide whether it is necessary to combine with drugs or not, so that the direction of intervention is most accurate.
Summary and analysis of results from recent studies around the world shows that respiratory physiotherapy does not change the course of two common and important causes of productive and productive productive coughs in young children, pneumonia. and bronchiolitis without complication of collapse.
For cases of children with simple respiratory infections, including pneumonia, bronchitis, uncomplicated bronchiolitis caused by viscous stagnation, it is not allowed to flap phlegm for infants.
Children with respiratory illness are not always required to practice respiratory physiotherapy, even in many cases where they actually have sputum. For example: Sputum stasis, but with severe respiratory distress, asthma patients should not always be treated with physical therapy, even with a productive cough. It is especially important to note that when a patient is having an asthma attack (often with a cough, heavy chest, wheezing, or shortness of breath), physical therapy should not be practiced because it is ineffective and sometimes worsens. breathing difficulties