In recent years, people are increasingly interested in traditional medicine. After all, for the treatment of babies so do not want to use pharmacy products, which, together with their medicinal properties, also have a number of side effects and contraindications. Or there are situations when a lot of money is spent, drugs are all tried, and the result of treatment is not.
Children tend to frequent recurrences of colds. And as a result - cough, sore red throat, runny nose. In such cases, doctors recommend warming compresses for children.
How to make a child a compress?
Compresses are different, depending on what area you want to warm up. If a child has a sore throat, it is hard for him to swallow, there is perspiration and hoarseness of the voice, in this case a vodka compress is applied to the child's throat.
To do this, it is necessary to prepare cheesecloth folded several times, wax paper or cellophane, cotton or a warm non-slippery scarf and, in fact, the reagent itself - vodka or alcohol diluted in water in a 1: 1 ratio.
Vodka is heated to thirty-eight degrees, dipped cooked gauze in it and squeezed lightly. Warm gauze wraps the child's neck and quickly covered with a layer of waxed paper or cellophane. We wrap the throat with a layer of cotton wool and wrap it with a scarf for fixation. Compress the throat of the child leave for 2 - 3 hours in the afternoon, and you can apply at night.
But not all children can have a compress on their throats. If there are any diseases of the thyroid gland or the child has not turned two years old, a compress on the throat is contraindicated.
When bronchitis for children make warming compresses on the chest area, excluding the heart area, and on the back.
Cough compresses
1. Honey compress from a child's cough . If you are sure that your child does not have any allergies to beekeeping products, try making a honey pack. There are several common and effective compresses, which include honey.
Take two cabbage leaves, beat them with boiling water to make them more pliable and soft. Well spread each of them with honey, warmed in a water bath to 39 ° C, and attach to the chest and back of the child. Top with parchment or cellophane and secure with bandage, tie it crosswise.
Wrap a good child, let him for a while leave moving games and lie in bed under the blanket. This compress can be timed to daytime sleep.
2. Compress from potatoes to the child . At all times, moms have been practicing to make their children a compress in the form of a flat cake. The main ingredient here is ordinary potatoes. And the other components can be different. Usually in a potato cake add one tablespoon of alcohol, one spoon of turpentine (but it is possible and without it) one spoon of vegetable oil and a spoonful of honey. Potatoes (which are welded in a uniform) can be mashed by hand, gradually adding the remaining ingredients to a uniform state.
After the prepared mass has not cooled down, we spread it on a cloth or gauze with a rather thick layer and put it, as described above, on the chest and back to the child. We hide and leave for several hours, preferably at night, of course, if the child can fall asleep with it.
There is another version of the potato compress. To all previously listed ingredients, you need to add Don a tablespoon of mustard. But if the child is allergic, this compress is not suitable, because mustard is the strongest allergen.
After the compress is removed, it is necessary to wipe the skin dry, in case of redness lubricate with baby cream and change the child into warm, dry clothes.