Exudative-catarrhal diathesis

This is usually called a disease in which a child's skin and mucous membranes become very vulnerable and inflamed. Explaining the cause of such manifestations, usually doctors refer to hereditary propensity to allergic reactions and protracted

diseases. As a rule, they state the fact of unfavorable conditions of intrauterine development: maternal nutrition, inadequate medication, hypoxic fasting of the fetus( conceived in a drunken state: conceived in insanity - born in frenzy, with diseases).

After the birth of a child, allergic reactions are associated with food allergens, which are cow's milk, chocolate, strawberry, citrus, egg white, river fish.

The disease can develop violently from the first days of life, without fail manifests itself with pronounced symptoms. Drug treatment is aggravated by the symptoms of the disease. The diathesis passes in a neurodermite, and tussis - in a bronchial asthma. The disease can be lethargic, which in the language of practitioners means auspicious. And parents are waiting for the child to outgrow the disease.

Manifestation of exudative-catarrhal diathesis: skin lesions - gneiss, intertrigo, dairy scab, eczema, strobulus and prurigo.

Gneiss - brownish fatty scales on the eyebrows and scalp appear in infants. The skin under them inflames. This is seborrhea. It can expand its area and turn into eczema. In the folds of the skin appears diaper rash.

The skin thickens on the cheeks and begins to peel off - this is a milk scab. On the skin of the face and trunk appear small bubbles with a liquid - this is a rash. The skin becomes inflamed, the vesicles burst, a yellowish liquid flows out. When drying, crusts are formed. Rashes are accompanied by itching. Wet eczema lasts a long time. Sometimes, wet eczema alternates with dry, flaking and itching. Neurodermatitis appears.

In older children, skin damage manifests itself in the form of small nodular rash - strobulus, or in the form of shallow, dense, itchy nodules on the arms and legs - scrapes.

Exudative-catarrhal diathesis is accompanied by increased uneven sloughing of the tongue's epithelium( geographical language), inflammation of the eyes, upper respiratory tract, often passes into bronchial asthma. There are inflammation of the urinary tract. Diarrhea alternates with constipation. A lot of mucus is allocated.

Treatment:

1) a diet with a restriction of carbohydrate food is established;

2) introduces early lure meat;

3) in case of detection of antigen, a series of injections of tawegil, suprastin, peritol, fenkarol, ketotifen;

4) is prescribed a medicine that enhances digestion: mezim-forte, festal, pancreatin, as well as preparations for adapting the organism to the current situation of the contaminated organism - adaptogens - dibazol, pentoxyl;

5) children with severe itching are prescribed medications that calm the nervous system( phenobarbital);

6) often for the removal of external symptoms, infusions are applied - chamomile, oak bark, thyme, viburnum, celandine, rosehip, sea-buckthorn, cedarwood;

7) that the child does not itch, put on the elbows on the tires from the cardboard. Wear cloth mittens, impose clay masks on the affected areas of eczema skin;

8) You should bathe your baby often - 3 times a day. In Russia, there was a custom to prepare

for children, infusions of willows( willows), consecrated in Lazarev Saturday. Bunches of young shoots brewed and bathed in this water of children;

9) drink a patient with allergic manifestations and infusions on the bark from the plum tree. With this bark it is good to wash the eyes and ears of a sick child.

Simple tips for exudative-catarrhal diathesis:

1) feed mother's milk as long as possible - it helps to form the immune system and the enzyme systems of the body;

2) start giving different complementary foods as late as possible. The more you delay the beginning of contacts with new substances, the less likely the development of their intolerance;

3) temper the child! This will help make the immune system resistant to both colds and allergies;

4) do not forget about the obligatory daily airing of the room and walking in the fresh air;

5) fewer contacts with household chemicals. Take care that the child carefully washed off soap and shampoo from himself, and if he helps you around the house - a dishwashing detergent, etc.;

6) Wash the clothes of children under 5 years old with only baby soap. What is more important to you - the whiteness or health of the child? It is highly desirable to wash with the same soap

and parental items, at least, exclude powders with enzymes. Very common situation, when a child in veshchichki, washed with baby soap, rubs his face on his mother's coat after washing powder with biosystems. As a result, nobody can guess the reasons for skin irritation;

7) make sure to iron baby bedding and clothes. High temperature will help to destroy the remains of the molecules of the detergent. However, this applies to the clothes of parents;

8) try not to put a child under 5 in woolen clothes;

9) do not start any pets until your child is 5 years old;

10) do not poison the baby with passive smoking! Otherwise, all other measures are simply useless.