Bronchiolitis

Bronchiolitis, commonly known as bronchitis, is a common lower respiratory tract disease in children. It is often caused by untimely treatment of colds and is more prevalent in winter. Once you suffer from capillary pneumonia, you must seek timely treatment, otherwise it will develop into more serious diseases such as pneumonia, cor pulmonale, etc. It is undoubtedly a harm to children. Therefore, when children have a cold or cough, they must be treated promptly and thoroughly. Let’s look at the treatment of bronchiolitis.

One treatment

1. Infection control

If acute bronchitis is caused by bacterial infection, the following antibacterial drugs can be used: co-trimoxazole 0.05/kg/day orally twice, penicillin 30,000-50,000 U/mg/day intramuscularly twice, medetomidine and erythromycin 30-50 mg/kg/day orally 3-4 times. If there is no clear bacterial infection or mixed infection, ribavirin 10-15 mg/kg/day divided into 2 times for intramuscular injection, or 5 mg/kg/day divided into 2 times for nebulized inhalation can be used or added. Interferon a-200,000 U/day for intramuscular injection can also be tried.

2. Symptomatic treatment

1. Cough and expectorant: If the sputum is thick and difficult to suck out, you can use nebulization inhalation and choose 10% ammonium chloride mixture, Bisouping, and Xiaoer Qiangli Tanling (1-2 tablets for 2-4 years old, 2-3 tablets for 5-8 years old). . Frequent dry coughs affect sleep and rest. You can take a small amount of antitussive drugs, such as compound pholcodine syrup, 2-3 times a day. Care should be taken to avoid overdose and prolonged use, which will affect the physiological activity of cilia and make secretions difficult to discharge.

2. Antispasmodic and antiasthmatic: Nebulizer inhalation treatment should be the first choice. It can be combined with inhalation of 2ml of budesonide nebulizer solution, 1ml of isovalerpine bromide solution, 0.5ml of salbutamol solution, and 1ml of normal saline for 5-7 days. If the effect is not good, aminophylline can be given: 2-4 mg/kg/time 3-4 times/day orally. Salbutamol: For children under 6 years old, 1-2 mg/day, divided into 3-4 oral doses or 0.1 mg/kg/time. If the wheezing is severe, prednisone 1 mg/kg/day, divided into 3 oral doses may be added. One course of treatment is 4-7 days.

3. Treatment with Chinese medicine

1. Cough and asthma relief: During the remission period, some cough and asthma relief Chinese herbal preparations can be used, which can also alleviate the symptoms to a certain extent.

2. External application of medicine: When many infants and young children become ill, long-term medication may cause some drug toxic effects. The safety and convenience of external application of Chinese medicine is also a good solution. Currently, the more commonly used ones include Baicao Qiongjiang Yiqi Patch for removing and removing phlegm and Sanjiu Patch for use in winter.

Second Nursing

1. Keep warm: Temperature changes, especially cold stimulation, can reduce the local resistance of the bronchial mucosa and aggravate the condition of bronchitis. Therefore, parents should add or remove clothes for children in time with temperature changes, especially cover children with quilts when they sleep.

, keep the body temperature above 36.5℃.

2. Feed more water: Bronchiolitis can cause varying degrees of fever, and water evaporation is greater, so you should pay attention to feeding the child more water. It can be supplemented with sugar water or sugar and salt water, or with rice soup or egg soup. The diet is mainly semi-liquid to increase the water content in the body and meet the body's needs.

3. Adequate nutrition: When children suffer from bronchiolitis, they consume a lot of nutrients. In addition, fever and bacterial toxins affect gastrointestinal function and digestion and absorption are poor. Therefore, nutritional deficiencies in the children's bodies cannot be ignored. In this regard, parents should adopt the method of small meals and frequent meals for their children, and provide them with light, nutritious, balanced and easily digestible semi-liquid or liquid diets, such as porridge, cooked noodles, egg custard, fresh vegetables, fruit juice, etc.

After reading the above bronchiolitis, are you worried about your baby? Don't be afraid, take care of your baby according to the above care methods, don't take your baby to crowded places, pay attention to the cleanliness of the breathing environment, take good care of your baby's health, and don't use irritating clothes. Take good care of your baby's health.