2011-02-01

Sub-age children to choose a cold medicines

Seasons, when the temperature changes, the baby often cold, choose what kind of cold medicine to their children to eat has become the problems parents have to face, here to talk about the method of cold medicine in children.
First, the treatment of children with colds have to make age
Because the performance of common cold in children of different ages with different symptoms, drug selection should be treated differently.
1, infants: Infants under 6 months as from the mother to bring the immune system, less chance of illness, with symptoms of nasal obstruction based, most do not heat, so the main drug of choice for nasal drops;
2 children: 6 months to 3 years of age are high risk group of cold, high fever and catarrhal symptoms (nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing), and cough symptoms, the fever, the first back heat, heat until reduced to 39 ℃ below, the timely use of cold medicine. Prevent a simple fever, so stuffy nose, runny nose, cold symptoms get worse and delay treatment;
3, children: 3 children over the age of cold, relatively clear of other symptoms, with fever, but mostly moderate fever, drug choices to the main cold medicine.
Second, high and low fever in children, drug selection and different
Children above 39 degrees cold high fever, high fever should be returned until the temperature dropped to 39 degrees below that for symptomatic treatment with cold medicine.
Children in a cold 39 degrees below, low fever, cold medicines in children is the right choice for you.
Third, children with colds, symptomatic treatment
Symptomatic treatment is the principle of treating children with colds.
Sore throat, fever, muscle aches, use of antipyretic analgesics paracetamol ------ current World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health, acute respiratory infections (ART) The Committee recommended choice.
Cough can choose phenol dextromethorphan hydrobromide and codeine, but there is addiction codeine, and dextromethorphan phenolic non-narcotic antitussive, respected by WHO and the U.S. FDA to use.
For common nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing and other symptoms of catarrh, drugs commonly used in pseudoephedrine and chlorpheniramine.
If children have a cold one or combination of the above symptoms, you have a pass nose, cough, analgesic, antipyretic effect of cold medicines in children is the right choice.
Fourth, alert chlorpheniramine, drug selection should be careful
Because chlorpheniramine as allergy, adverse reactions mainly for the central inhibition: dizziness, drowsiness; gastrointestinal reactions: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation.

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