Symptoms of bronchitis in children. What characterizes this disease?
What is a disease like bronchitis? This is a strong inflammation of the bronchial mucosa. In children, the respiratory system is not as well adapted to the environment as in adults, so babies are constantly at risk.
Even the most innocuous of infections can turn into a serious inflammation( bronchitis).In addition, if a child is forced to constantly inhale tobacco smoke, or any chemical evaporation, the risk of the disease increases exponentially.
Therefore, it is necessary to abstain from smoking in the presence of a child.
Symptoms of the disease in children
Most often, this disease begins with a common cold. Further, the baby is feeling worse, becomes weak, weak. Characteristic is also an increase in temperature and the appearance of a cough. At first it is dry, unproductive, then develops into a strong moist cough.
Infection when entering the respiratory tract adversely affects the bronchi, there is swelling and hence there is a violation of normal breathing.
There are also the following signs of bronchitis in children: wheezing and whistling with the inhalation of air, which indicates a strong edema of bronchi, characteristic of this disease. Another danger - the temperature in children is greatly increased.
How to identify a child's ailment?
In order to determine the baby's disease, it is better to consult a doctor. Coughing, wet wheezing inside the lungs is a good reason to diagnose bronchitis. Chest pain and nasal, exhausting cough( dry).In this case, clear or purulent sputum may be allocated.
Bronchitis can be acute, or a chronic disease. An acute type of disease can be a consequence of the infection that has just been transmitted, which causes inflammation of the respiratory mucosa.
This type of disease can also arise after infection of the lungs, which occurs when foreign bodies( pieces of food, for example) get into the respiratory tract. They later come out, and the infection carried by them remains inside the bronchi.
The cause of this disease can be the child's inhalation of harmful chemical vapors, whether it is gasoline, or, for example, smoke. There is also an allergic cause of the appearance of acute bronchitis, that is, irritation of the mucosa due to exposure to allergens.
Chronic bronchitis occurs when parents, without contacting the doctor, try to treat the baby themselves. There is a second disease, untreated earlier. This kind of disease can eventually become pneumonia. Therefore it is very important to know how to recognize a child's bronchitis.
What is an obstructive disease
This disease is characterized by severe edema, and consequently, compression of the bronchi, which resulted in sputum along with the mucus that accumulated inside the lungs, can not go out on its own, which makes it very difficult for the baby to breathe.
There are such signs of obstructive bronchitis in children: whistling and wheezing during breathing, tachycardia, dyspnea, weakness, fatigue, pallor, a strong decrease in appetite, drowsiness.
On how bronchitis manifests in children, every parent must know clearly! Otherwise, the baby is in real danger.
We will repeat the main signs of bronchitis in children: the decline in the strength of the baby, coughing, pain in the chest, moody mood, complaints. The temperature with bronchitis, of course, is very different from normal and much higher.
It is necessary to use medicines that will help to reduce it. The cough is at first dry, exhausting, unproductive. Further it is transformed into wet, with expectoration of clear sputum or purulent.
When diagnosed: bronchitis in children, treatment is prescribed by a doctor. Self-medication in this case can lead to very undesirable consequences. The doctor will determine what the course of the disease is, and, depending on the age of the baby, will write out the necessary medications.
Bronchitis in children is treated in the following ways - first of all, this is the elimination of infection, then - the removal of the edema of the respiratory tract. After this, the stage of clearing the body of mucus and sputum follows, and the elimination of the exhausting baby cough.
In order to cure the disease completely, it is necessary to follow the doctor's advice, because only he can determine exactly what medicines to use, whether to give the baby antibiotics, because it is not always effective, whether to stay at home with the baby, or better go to the hospital forfull examination.
Following the doctor's instructions, and having completed a comprehensive treatment for this disease, you can forget about him and see your child healthy, ruddy and cheerful.