What to do if your baby has pharyngitis and cough

It is quite common for babies to have pharyngitis and cough. If you do not pay attention to timely care and treatment, it may easily lead to secondary tonsillitis and even respiratory tract infection, which is quite harmful to the baby's health. If pharyngitis occurs, symptomatic treatment should be carried out in time. Babies should be given plenty of water to promote the metabolism of inflammatory body fluids. If fever occurs, you can follow the doctor's advice and use some anti-inflammatory drugs.

Treatment of pharyngitis in children

1. Treatment principles

1. Perform symptomatic treatment, promote bowel movements, and drink plenty of boiled water.

2. Those with fever should use antibiotics (penicillin, cefotaxime), sulfonamides and antiviral drugs (such as morphine, amantadine, viroline, etc.).

3. For local treatment, you can gargle with 1:5000 furacilin solution or compound borax solution, dissolve dulefen, chlorhexidine, mint tablets or iodine tablets in your mouth, or inhale antibiotics and hormones by nebulization.

4. Treatment with traditional Chinese medicine: For patients with severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating and floating pulse, Mahuang Decoction can be taken orally. If the fever is severe and the aversion to cold is mild, Yinqiao Powder can be taken internally. Niuhuang Jiedu Pills, Jiedu Xiaoyan Pills, and Liushen Pills can also be taken internally. For local treatment, you can use Bingpengsan or Xileisan powder and blow it into the throat. Acupuncture at the cheek-cartilage, hegu, shaoshang points or mandibular angle blockade can relieve inflammation and has an especially good analgesic effect.

Nasal irrigation

Mix 4.5 grams of pure salt without any additives with 500 ml of clean warm water. Fill the neti pot with water. Aim the spout of the neti pot at one nostril, tilt your head slightly to the other side (no more than 15°), and the water will flow out of the other nostril. Then blow both nostrils clean. Repeat the same action on the other nostril until the nasal cavity is completely clean. For acute pharyngitis caused by acute rhinitis, the above nasal washing method can be repeated several times a day until there is no excessive mucus in the nasal cavity.

Prevention of pharyngitis in children

1. Live a regular and controlled life, have a regular routine, go to bed at night and get up early to avoid catching a cold. Avoid cross drafts while sleeping.

2. Eat more fruits and dried fruits such as pears, raw radishes, and plums to enhance the maintenance function of the throat.

3. Increase outdoor activities, get more sunlight, strengthen your physical fitness and improve your disease resistance.

4. Maintain oral hygiene and develop the habit of brushing your teeth and rinsing your mouth in the morning, after meals and before going to bed.

5. Pay attention to climate changes, add or remove clothes in time to avoid cold or heat.

6. During the cold epidemic, try to reduce going out to prevent infection.