Syrup of licorice to children

From autumn to spring, most mothers face nasopharyngeal diseases in babies at least every month, and even more often. Particularly unpleasant consequence of the transferred ARVI or influenza is a painful cough, which is difficult to treat. In order to save mothers and children from sleepless nights, many pediatricians recommend giving licorice syrup in case of diseases of the lower and upper respiratory tract. It is a completely natural and effective drug that will quickly improve the quality of life of moms and their loved ones.

When are licorice syrup given?

According to the instructions attached to the syrup from the licorice root for children, it should be taken orally with the following diagnoses:

• tracheitis;
• bronchitis of acute and chronic nature;
• pneumonia;
• bronchial asthma;
• bronchiectatic disease.

The mechanism of action of the drug is a gradual dilution and rapid excretion of sputum from the bronchi and lungs, which coughs much easier and more efficiently. It consists of flavonoids, glycyrrhizic acid and glycerisin, coumarins and essential oils, which have a healing effect on the whole organism.

Your child will cease to wake from attacks of a prolonged cough, and an additional advantage of using licorice root syrup for children is disinfection of the respiratory tract, antiviral effect and strengthening of immunity.

The medicine has a pleasant sweet taste and even contains special tannins, which have a beneficial effect on the digestive tract.

If you start giving licorice cough syrup for children immediately after the appearance of the first symptoms of the disease, in a few days your child will be vigorous and healthy. With a serious course of the disease and infections of the respiratory tract, accompanied by complications, the drug has proven itself as part of a comprehensive therapy.

Scheme of drug treatment

Give licorice syrup to children under one year is not recommended, because it includes alcohol. Drink the drug three to four times a day after meals, preferably diluting it in a small amount of clean water. When appointing children pediatricians adhere to the following dosage of licorice syrup:

• crumbs from year to 3 years give 2.5 ml of syrup at a time;
• if your baby is 4 to 6 years old, - the dose of the drug is 2.5-5 ml at a time;
• those who do not yet know how to take licorice syrup to children aged 7-9 years, the doctor, most likely, will advise giving from 5 to 7.5 ml;
• young patients, whose age is 10-11 years, should drink 7.5-10 ml of medicine at a time;
• if you are a teenage mother over the age of 12, pour him 15 ml of syrup at a time.

The above scheme is not strict: in the case of individual drug intolerance or allergic reactions, it can be adjusted. Sometimes specialists prescribe to drink as many drops as possible, how many years the child was fulfilled.

The course of treatment is traditionally 7-10 days. To the baby recovered faster, taking the drug must be combined with a warm abundant drink. With prolonged use of syrup from licorice, an intensive withdrawal of potassium salts from the body is possible, so often feed the child with products containing this trace element: dried apricots, raisins, bananas, peanuts and walnuts, oatmeal and buckwheat porridge.

Contraindications to taking licorice syrup for children

You should not even think how to give licorice syrup to children, if your son or daughter in the medical card is diagnosed with diabetes mellitus or bronchial asthma in very severe form. In this case, you can not use this medicine.

It is necessary to refrain from using the syrup inside if the baby has hyperemia and swelling of the skin, nausea, diarrhea, severe itching or rashes on the skin.