What to do if your child false croup
What to do if Your Baby has Croup - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance
The season of SARS, which means that the "first aid", in addition to calls with complaints about the temperature, adding calls to complain that the child suffocated. In most cases, getting to the patient, the team diagnose false croup (constrictive laryngotracheitis).
In this article I want to tell you how to help your child at home, before the arrival of the medical workers.
False cereals arises against viral diseases: infection causes inflammation and swelling in the area of the trachea in the region of podskladochnogo space in the vocal cords. It characterized by the appearance of dry cough, rapid rolling in the rough, "barking", with the appearance of shortness of breath.
What to do if your child false croup
Call the "ambulance." Calling the number 103 must be made by default.
The most important thing after the call "ambulance" - calm and reassure the child himself. Excitation and crying baby cough increase, which in turn increases symptoms of croup, forming a "vicious circle."
You must use all available means to humidify the air. Suit and special machines, and the steam from the hot water in the bathroom, and a wet towel at the bedside of the child. If the weather permits, you can open the windows. Just remember that the air should be cool but not frosty, otherwise will increase the degree of stenosis.
If the house has a nebulizer - excellent, easily fill it and make saline inhalation.
If the child has a high fever - it is necessary to give him an antipyretic. If possible, the child desoldering water: during the attack easily lost fluid.
attack itself takes about an hour, plus or minus 10 minutes.
Children usually outgrow this not a good thing to 6 years in that way, but the attacks may be repeated in a more adult. But there can be only one episode.
Many doctors have prescribed for seizures "Flomax" and "Lasolvan". I note that "Flomax" is useless if false croup - this drug is, in fact, bronchodilator, ie, dilates the bronchi, and the area where it is not in any way act edema in croup. The same can be said about "Lasolvan". This drug - mucolytic, it produces mucus in the bronchi below. Think about it - whether it will be effective in the trachea?
In the "first aid and" practice we use in such cases, "Pulmicort", is a hormonal drug, but this is not necessary to be afraid of. In this case, the hypothetical risk of application exceeds the benefit. Experienced parents have already faced with croup can afford to use it to "103" soon.
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As I created the theme at the forum was very valuable and informative comments from biene gibtesauch, it would like to cite here:
I will add a little bit about the evil and scary corticosteroids, call a bad word "hormone". Yes - it's the hormones. And, as the author rightly remarked, the benefit of their inhalation is much higher than the hypothetical harm. Since steroids are evil glory at their heels's that way with a 60-70 last century. Since then, medicine has gone far, steroids, assignable for inhalation, practically no effect on the entire body, as degraded in the cells of the mucous membrane, providing anti-edema and anti-inflammatory effect only there. For moms whose kids are forced to use these medications for months and years, it is important to know that it is necessary to clean up after inhalation of the mouth of the drug residues. Ideal brush your teeth. For example, drink some water or eat a cookie.
Another important observation. Some doctors prescribe in croup "Naphthyzinum" in the inhaler. That's what exactly do not have to: in the case of false croup, on the contrary, harm more than benefit. Swelling he can and will remove, but using "naftizina" is very easy to exceed the dose and then go baby, God forbid, in the toksikoreanimatsiyu.
And the last. If a child has had a seizure, you have it successfully docked and you think that everything is fine - do not rush to relax. This insidious disease tends to recur suddenly, about 3-4 night. Better is a child not completely recover, to sleep with him in the room, so as not to miss the new attack.
Health to you and your children!
We thank the paramedic station accident and emergency, for such a useful and detailed material.
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