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As a parent, hearing your child cough may make you feel uncomfortable. Cough is one of the most common complaints for which parents bring their children to a doctor. Yet an occasional cough doesn’t always mean there is a problem. In fact coughing is a healthy and important reflex that helps protect the airways in the throat and chest. Children can cough several times a day or have coughing episodes lasting up to a couple of weeks if they have viral infections. However, coughing that lasts for more than 2-3 weeks is a matter of concern and a valid reason to visit your physician. Some cough remedies at home can also help to cure it at initial stage.
Coughing occurs when something other than air gets into the airway below the vocal cords. Because the airway prefers air only instead of anything else (like mucus), as soon as something gets into the lower airway, it is quickly expelled. Cough and sore throat is a problem that can strike kids any time of the year. However, chances increase during winters. In winters, the cold air can dry out the tissues in the throat and can cause severe irritation. So common cold prevention and treatment become key in winters. By taking some regular precautions and cough remedies at home we can cure It easily.
Understanding the different types of cough can help you know when to handle them at home using home remedies for cold for kids and when to call your doctor.
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Dry cough:
A dry cough refers to a cough that does not produce mucus. Kids may have a dry, hacking cough after inhaling a mild irritant, such as dust, smoke or powder. It also can be the result of a disorder, such as allergy.
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Whooping cough:
Whooping cough is extremely contagious. It mainly affects babies younger than 6 months old who aren’t yet protected by immunization, and kids 11 to 18 whose immunity has started to fade. Whooping cough causes severe coughing spells, which can sometimes end in a whooping sound when the child breathes in. It takes 7 -10 days for symptoms to appear. They are usually mild at first and resemble those of a common cold with runny nose, nasal congestion, watery eyes and cough. After a week, signs and symptoms worsen. So common cold prevention and treatment is important for infants also.
Cough with wheezing:
Cough and wheezing are common when young children have cold and chest infection. Wheezing is a whistle sound made while breathing. Because a child’s airways are so small, any lower respiratory infection can cause wheezing in the child. Wheezing happens during exhalation, when something blocks or narrows the lower airway passage into the lungs. We can use some home remedies for cold for kids
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Night time cough
Coughing at night can be caused by a variety of conditions. Some are short term and disappear while in some cases it can be long term. Coughing often becomes worse at night. When you are lying down on bed, mucus will start pooling in the back of your throat, which causes irritation. Another reason is acid reflux. Acid is an irritant to the throat, much like mucus, germs or dust. Frequent vomiting, especially after meals, choking, wheezing are contents of the reflux.
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Cough with vomiting
Kids often cough so much that it triggers their gag reflex (contraction of throat when something touches area around tonsils), making them throw up. Also, a child who has cough with cold could vomit if lots of mucus drains into the stomach and causes nausea. That is why common cold prevention and treatment is important
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HOME REMEDIES TO TREAT COUGH
Mint
Mint has a very strong odour and can be used as one of the home remedies for cold for kids, as it helps open up the airways and allows relaxed breathing. It contains menthol, which soothes the throat and acts as a decongestant, helping to break down mucus. Drinking warm mint tea (mint brewed in water) or by inhaling peppermint vapours from a steam bath can benefit (for older kids). Another option is to have chamomile flowers brewed in water (chamomile tea). It has the same effect on the child and also produces melatonin hormone for sleep. (Easy foods to make kids sleep) Mint could be one of the best cough remedies at home.
Carom seeds (Ajwain)
Carom seeds work as an expectorant (an agent that promotes the expulsion of mucus from respiratory tract). It acts as a decongestant and helps in mucus removal to clear the kid’s nasal passage and helps to breathe easily. Boiling water along with carom seeds and tulsi leaves and keeping it at a safe distance from the child in your supervision and helping the child to breathe it while sleeping or while active (for older kids), can help to keep cough in check and relieve chest congestion. This should best be done before sleeping as sleeping too helps heal and works as common cold prevention and treatment
Licorice (Mulethi)
The benefit of this is plenty. It’s antioxidant property helps to protect from any virus or bacteria that attacks the body or fights the same when these unwanted guests enter the body. However, this perennial herb can be used to get relief from dry cough as well. For using as one of the cold and cough remedies at home for kids with cold, mix a spoon of mulethi powder with a spoonful of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and make your kids take this twice a day to get relief.
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Ginger
People have used ginger as a herbal remedy for centuries to treat many conditions. Ginger is widely used for common cold prevention and treatment. It has played a key role in lots of asian cultures- both Chinese and Ayurveda. It contains compounds called gingerols and shogaols. Researchers believe that these compounds give ginger its medicinal properties which may help ease a sore throat. Ginger may ease dry cough too, as it has anti-inflammatory properties which help to fight any infection in the body. It may also relieve nausea. Research shows certain purified compounds inside ginger roots can relax the muscles that tighten a kid’s airways. Mixing ginger powder or freshly squeezed juice of ginger with honey and roasted Turmeric is a great cough syrup for kids.
Honey
Honey is the best out of all the home remedies for cold for kids. It alone may be an effective cough suppressant too. It can’t cure coughs, but honey is believed to act as a demulcent- a substance that coats the throat and soothes it so, it is adviced to use it for cough remedy. Honey is also considered a humectant that keeps moisture in place, which prevents the throat from getting dry. This especially helps with night time coughing resulting in peaceful sleep.
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Garlic and Mustard Oil
Heat mustard oil and burn garlic in it. Once cool, apply this oil on the baby’s head, palm, feet base, chest and back. Leave it applied and let the child sleep. It will help settle the cold and cough both. Also, any body ache the child has will be resolved. It has been used from ages for cough remedy.
Onion, Khus-Khus and Honey for cough remedy:
- 7-8 tbsp Fresh Coconut milk
- 1 tbsp Red Onion
- 1 tbsp Poppy seeds or Khus-Khus
- 3/4 tbsp Honey
Mix poppy seeds or khus-khus with onion pulp, fresh coconut milk and honey to make a syrup. Give it to kids twice a day, especially before bedtime to relive dry cough.
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