What is the most effective way to treat children with cold and stuffy nose? What medicine should children take for cold and stuffy nose?

Children usually have poor constitution and resistance, so they are prone to getting sick and catching colds. At this time, some parents will be anxious, so we need to understand the most effective way to treat children's colds and nasal congestion. What medicine should children take for colds and nasal congestion?

Physical treatment methods can be used to relieve the symptoms, and oral medication or moxibustion can also be used to relieve nasal congestion. You can use a hot towel to apply to your child's nose, which can effectively relieve nasal congestion caused by a cold. Nasal congestion caused by a cold will not only cause breathing difficulties for children, but also more likely to induce rhinitis. Secondly, you can also use massage and acupressure techniques, such as massaging your child and acupressure on the Hegu point, which can also effectively relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose caused by a cold. When we choose oral medication for our children, we must follow the doctor's advice and try to choose some single-ingredient preparations or Chinese patent medicine preparations with fewer side effects to reduce the side effects caused by the drugs. If a child has a cold and nasal congestion, accompanied by a runny yellow nose, it means that it is a bacterial infection, and antibiotics should be used for anti-inflammatory treatment.

Children with cold and nasal congestion can be treated by using anti-cold drugs and cephalosporin drugs according to the doctor's advice. It is usually caused by viral infection and bacterial infection. You can also use some nasal spray to improve the nasal congestion. If there is a fever, it can also be treated by physical cooling and other methods. Use a dry towel dipped in warm water to wipe the face, neck, and limbs, which can achieve a good fever-reducing effect. Be sure to pay attention to your own cold protection and keep warm to avoid catching a cold. Children with cold and nasal congestion are mainly caused by pathogens invading the body, causing an inflammatory response to the upper respiratory tract mucosa. At this time, you can take some symptomatic treatment drugs appropriately, such as children's Jiegan granules, children's Jinqiao granules, Lanqin oral liquid, Xiao Chaihu granules, houttuynia syrup, etc. Western medicine can choose to use children's acetaminophen yellow granules, Shuangpu pseudoephedrine dispersible tablets, etc. Perform routine blood tests, etc. to identify the cause of the disease and initiate anti-pathogen treatment. For example, for antibacterial treatment, you can choose penicillin, amoxicillin, cefoperazone and other drugs; for antiviral treatment, you can choose ribavirin, oseltamivir and other drugs.

For babies with colds and coughs, you can choose cold and cough medicines. The ingredients in cold and cough medicines include pseudoephedrine hydrochloride or ephedrine, chlorpheniramine, antipyretics, expectorants, antitussives, etc. When using these medicines, you should pay attention to the following: First, you should choose cold and cough medicines that are suitable for your baby's age group. You should read the instructions of the medicines carefully and only use medicines suitable for this age group. Second, if you only have a cold and cough but no fever, you should choose cold and cough medicines that do not contain antipyretic ingredients. Third, cold and cough medicines are over-the-counter medicines, so parents can buy them freely in pharmacies. When choosing medicines, do not use two medicines together, because many ingredients of cold and cough medicines are the same or similar, and it is easy to overdose. You can only use one medicine at a time. Finally, the use of cold and cough medicines should not exceed one week. If the symptoms are not relieved after one week, you should go to the hospital to seek help from a doctor.

Children have cold and cough symptoms due to upper respiratory tract infection. When choosing drug treatment, children's compound acetaminophen granules plus children's cough and asthma granules can be used for oral treatment. If accompanied by bacterial infection, antibiotics should be taken together, and amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium dispersible tablets can be taken orally. If it is suspected to be caused by mycoplasma infection, roxithromycin dispersible tablets and azithromycin tablets can be used for oral treatment. Through such treatment, the symptoms of cold and cough can be relieved and cured.