General care recommendations
Proper care for a child up to one year old will help relieve cold symptoms and avoid taking a large number of medications. The first thing to do is to ensure a comfortable temperature. At high temperatures, it is necessary to dress the baby in “breathable” clothes made of natural cotton and cover with a light blanket.
To reduce the concentration of bacteria in the air, you need to regularly ventilate the children's room and carry out wet cleaning. To fight germs, you can place a saucer with chopped garlic at the head of the crib.
The best medicine for colds for a child under one year old is mother's milk. It contains immunoglobulins that help fight the infection faster. You need to offer your baby the breast regularly, even if he refuses to suckle. Any amount of milk will be useful during illness.
When a child is sick, he needs to drink more. This is necessary to prevent dehydration and “flush” toxins from the body. It is recommended that children under six months be given only boiled water. Children aged six months and older, if they are not allergic, can be offered vitamin drinks:
- dried fruits compote,
- cranberry, lingonberry and currant fruit drinks,
- rosehip decoction.
The liquid should never be hot. You need to give your child a little water, but often. Chamomile has a good therapeutic effect. It softens the throat and helps cope with inflammation. It is easy to prepare a solution for oral administration. Just pour boiling water over the chamomile flowers, let it brew for 10-15 minutes and strain. The resulting infusion is given to children from 6 months of age, one teaspoon 3 times a day.
Children and mothers
A healthy child is the desire of all mothers and fathers. This does not always happen; any family member can get sick. The immune system of newborns has not developed; it is easy and simple to infect your heir, especially with colds. Recovery takes a long time, it’s hard, how to cope with such a deviation from the norm?
The child is 2 months old and he is sick, what should the parents do? Before you do anything, it’s worth understanding the signs, the course of a cold, the principles of treatment, what to do first.
Medicines for adults are not suitable; any violations will lead to intoxication of the fragile body.
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In medical terms, two names are used - ARVI (acute respiratory viral infection) and ARI (acute respiratory disease). When the virus begins to spread quickly, children are at risk; family and friends become the source of infection.
Mom and dad should protect the newborn from such problems as much as possible. An acute respiratory infection manifests itself after hypothermia and a weakened immune system. As soon as he is born, the heir has protective functions inherited from his mother; they decrease from three months. Parents should not drag a 2-month-old child to public places. Breast milk is a good barrier, but it’s more difficult for artificial ones.
Sometimes parents worry: is there a possibility that the heir will be infected by his sick mother? It is difficult to exclude this, because any virus does not appear immediately; there is an incubation period. At this time, a loved one is already considered infectious to others. The child receives a portion of ARVI through:
- Breastfed mother's milk.
- Nasopharyngeal mucosa.
- Air.
Don't stop feeding because it will get worse.
A bandage comes to the rescue; it changes every 2 hours, hygiene, ventilation of the room, an ultraviolet lamp if available. Doctors recommend getting one after the baby arrives in the house. Wet cleaning, correct daily routine. If the heir is breastfed, then when the mother becomes ill, immunity to this type of virus develops.
Symptoms are an important indicator, since the newborn will not be able to talk about his problem. What is characteristic:
- Runny nose - discharge from the nose.
- The eyes become red and cloudy.
- He cannot breathe, refuses to eat, although he wants to eat.
- The temperature is rising.
- Sneezes.
When a child is 2 months old , it is difficult to understand that he has a virus; often the discovery comes late. Mom and children are admitted to the hospital with complications. This means that his behavior must be under control - lethargic or excitable, not sleeping, or vice versa for a long time, to prevent it, immediately call a doctor.
Sometimes parents mistakenly believe that a cough and runny nose without a fever will not be a big deal. In practice, everyone is individual, this situation is the beginning of a virus, or it could be an allergy. The worst thing is that babies do not know how to cough or blow their nose, the whole mass flows deeper, leading to complications, leading to inflammation of the brain.
Now it is clear why a 2-month-old child fell ill , it is important to contact a pediatrician immediately. Methods for restoring the body are varied, but you cannot experiment in infancy. Because the virus progresses quickly in such an unformed body, and treatment takes a long time.
Every mother is obliged to closely monitor her newborn so as not to miss anything.
The first step is visiting a medical facility. No independent treatment, because at 2 months medications are contraindicated, the dose is prescribed by a specialist based on individual characteristics, mainly weight. It is important that colds cannot be treated with antibiotics; such drugs only worsen the condition of the newborn.
It is unacceptable for such children to clear up a runny nose with drops, because they are vasoconstrictors. A good remedy is rinsing the nose; pharmacies have special cylinders with sea water. Saline solution also helps; 2 drops of it are instilled into each nasal passage, after which everything inside liquefies and is easily removed. For this I use:
- Aspirator.
- Rubber bulb.
- If there is nothing, then a syringe without a needle or the mother’s mouth is used.
It is difficult to give medications to infants, so suppositories are used. Vefirons became the leaders. They are easily inserted into the anus and quickly begin to act. The following should never be used if the baby is 2 months old :
- Herbs and honey are strong allergens.
- There is an opinion that instilling mother's milk brings an effect - lies. Such procedures will exacerbate inflammatory processes in the nasopharynx.
- Inhalations bring an effect, but not some herbs and essential oils.
- The use of mustard plasters will cause burns on delicate skin.
- Taking an enema on your own initiative is unacceptable.
Since the child is weak at 2 months, folk remedies cannot be used; the doctor prescribes complex treatment. Any personal manipulation leads to death.
No experiments or strange medications, doses strictly as prescribed by the doctor.
Parents begin to panic when their newborn develops a fever. According to doctors, this sign is positive – the body is fighting the virus. Up to 38 there is no danger, after that you should invite a medical professional or use suppositories to lower it. The use of paracetamol is toxic to a small organism, so it cannot be used independently.
There are also a number of additional prohibitions that you should not:
- Aspirin.
- Rubbing with vinegar or alcohol.
A sharp drop in temperature also leads to cramps and pale skin.
Doctor Komarovsky believes that in addition to medications, it is necessary to create conditions that lead to complete recovery.
- Ventilate the baby's bedroom if it is not available. Oxygen helps fight viruses and alleviates the baby’s condition. The child is taken to another room, the windows are opened for 30 minutes, closed, and in turn 15 they return.
- Humidity is 60%, otherwise the mucous membrane dries out and the disease interferes with the newborn.
- It is impossible to overheat, the temperature is not higher than 21 degrees.
- Dust and dirt are additional germs. They are fought with wet cleaning 3 times a day.
- If the baby sweats, then the clothes are removed, including pastel ones.
- The position of the body, namely the head on a hill, helps to ease breathing with a stuffy nose.
- Stress and anger from loved ones will bring negativity and complications. The baby must understand that he is loved and pitied.
Children at 2 months of age are difficult to get sick, mom and dad will have to be patient and show only positive things. Be sure to consult a doctor to avoid complications.
Doctors believe that under normal conditions, the disease quickly recedes.
When a child is closed from society, the percentage of contracting ARVI or acute respiratory infections decreases. If you fail to protect yourself, the first thing to do is visit a doctor. Proper care and daily routine. Comfortable stop, room conditions. If a child falls ill at 2 months of age, self-medication is strictly prohibited, otherwise complications cannot be avoided, and these are pneumonia, bronchitis, meningitis, etc.
The duration of the disease ranges from 5 days to 3-4 weeks. In addition, after suffering a deviation from the norm, it is worth creating conditions in which contact with other people will be reduced to nothing, for about 7 days. This is the only way the child will grow up healthy and full-fledged.
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Let's breathe easy!
When a child has a cold, they often have a runny nose. Babies under one year old breathe through the nose, so even with slight congestion it becomes difficult for them to breathe. Babies become restless while sucking and refuse to take the breast or pacifier.
To solve this problem, you need to clear your nasal passages. This can be done in different ways:
- boil vegetable oil in a water bath, lubricate a cotton bud with it, insert it into the spout 2-3 centimeters and remove;
- drop one dropper of chamomile solution into each nostril and draw out the contents with a special syringe with a safe tip.
To prevent crusts from forming on the mucous membrane, it is important to maintain high humidity in the room. To do this, you can use humidifiers or simply deep plates filled with water.
The third “pillar” is adequate physical activity
Adequate physical activity in childhood is absolutely mandatory. Children spend the first half of the day at school in a static, tense, sitting position. The second half of the day is often spent preparing homework, which is also associated with a sitting, or even crooked, position. Therefore, it is very necessary to include sports and recreational activities in a child’s daily routine.
Swimming in the winter is a very individual thing. It's cold here, of course. But if this is a baby or a junior schoolchild who is prone to diseases of the ENT organs, then it is better to choose other sports. And leave swimming for the warmer seasons and/or at an older age. Since it is difficult to completely dry and warm the baby and there is a risk of hypothermia.
Therefore, in winter, traditional sports for this time of year are good: skiing, skating, sledding, walking. Outdoor exercise is a must!
What to do before the doctor arrives?
Only an experienced doctor should decide how to treat ARVI in a 7-month-old child. Many medications are contraindicated for children under one year of age, so it is better not to use new medications without the instructions of a specialist. It is possible to alleviate the patient’s condition without medications.
For the child’s well-being, it is necessary to maintain the air temperature to 23 degrees and humidity to about 60%. To keep the air from drying out, you can use a humidifier or simply place deep containers filled with water around the room.
To reduce the concentration of germs in the air and make breathing easier, it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning and regularly ventilate the nursery.
If the baby refuses food, there is no need to strictly follow the feeding schedule. It is better to offer food more often, but in small portions. But it is imperative to monitor fluid intake: dehydration is dangerous for a 7-month-old child. You can give children not only boiled water, but also vitamin drinks, if they are not allergic to them:
- cranberry, lingonberry, currant fruit drinks,
- Rosehip decoction - it is recommended for use from 6 months of age.
