What to do if your baby has rhinitis and nasal congestion

Because babies have poor body resistance, it is easy for them to catch a cold and then develop rhinitis when adding or removing clothes. Many parents do not pay attention to the early stage of the disease, which eventually leads to further expansion of the disease and increased difficulty in treatment. The following are some things to pay attention to.

Compared with adults, children have less perfect morphological development and physiological functions of their organs, which results in poorer resistance and adaptability to the outside world. Therefore, children are more susceptible to rhinitis. Pediatric rhinitis refers to inflammation of the nasal mucosa and submucosal tissue. It can be divided into acute rhinitis and chronic rhinitis based on the rapidity of onset and duration of the disease. In addition, there is a very common rhinitis related to the external environment, which is allergic rhinitis.

Parents should not worry too much if their children have nasal congestion due to rhinitis, but they should not ignore it and leave it untreated. If rhinitis is not treated, it can easily lead to some serious complications. Children's rhinitis and nasal congestion should be treated mainly with supportive and symptomatic treatment, such as sweating all over the body (drinking brown sugar water, ginger water and antipyretic and analgesic), antiviral oral solution and systemic antibiotics. Drink plenty of water and eat a light diet. If rhinitis turns into chronic rhinitis, the cause should be treated mainly, including local hormone therapy, nasal irrigation and nasal decongestants.

The treatment of children's rhinitis and nasal congestion should first choose appropriate drugs to treat the nasal congestion and then prescribe the right medicine to treat the rhinitis. If children's rhinitis is not completely cured, it can easily become chronic rhinitis and easily recur, affecting the physical and mental health of children. Therefore, if a child has nasal congestion and rhinitis, he should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible and consult a doctor for treatment.