How to treat bronchial pneumonia in children

How to treat bronchopneumonia in children? Because children's immune systems are immature, they often suffer from minor illnesses. Diseases such as cough and fever are inevitable for children, so it is reasonable for children to develop bronchopneumonia. However, colds and fevers can be cured by taking medicine or getting injections, but how should bronchopneumonia be treated? Is it similar to the treatment of colds and fevers?

1. Western medicine treatment

If acute bronchopneumonia is a bacterial infection, antibacterial drugs are generally used to control the infection. If the sputum is thick and difficult to cough up, cough and phlegm relievers such as Bisouping, Xiaoer Qiangli Tanling, or Kebiqing sugar water, compound licorice mixture, etc. are generally used. When dry coughs occur frequently, you can take a small amount of antitussive drugs. Sometimes, aminophylline or salbutamol can be used to relieve spasms and coughs. However, care should be taken to avoid overdose and prolonged use of the drug, which will affect the physiological activity of the cilia and make it difficult to discharge secretions.

2. Treatment with Chinese medicine

(1) During the remission period, oral medications can include some Chinese herbal preparations for cough and asthma relief, which can also alleviate symptoms to a certain extent.

(2) External medications: When many babies are sick, long-term medication may cause toxic side effects of certain drugs. The safety and convenience of external application of Chinese medicine have attracted the attention of many parents. The most commonly used ones at present are Baicao Meijiu Yiqi Patch and Sanjiu Patch.

3. Massage therapy

(1) Open the Tianmen point. Start from the middle point between the eyebrows and go straight up to the hairline. Use the radial side of your thumbs (let your arms hang naturally, palms facing forward, the inner side is the ulna and the outer side is the radial) to push up alternately from bottom to top to open the Tianmen point. Push 30 to 50 times each time.

(2) Push the Kan Palace. A straight line from the inner eyebrow tip to the outer eyebrow tip is located above the eyebrows, directly opposite the pupil. This is the Kan Palace. Use your two thumbs to push from the eyebrows to the tips of the eyebrows, which is called pushing the Kan Palace, 20 to 50 times each time.

4. Diet therapy

Taking yam porridge as an example, if the baby coughs day and night, eats less, and has a sallow complexion, you can boil 100 grams of yam with water, and add an amount of sugar suitable for the child to eat after it is cooked.

Here, the editor tells you four methods of treating bronchopneumonia in children. If you believe in the strength of Western medicine, you can adopt Western medicine treatment methods. Of course, if you rely more on traditional Chinese medicine, you can also treat it through traditional Chinese medicine methods. You can also try several other methods. Curing your child's condition is the best.