What medicine should children take for clear nasal discharge?

Children who are young, have poor resistance and cannot protect themselves are at high risk of catching colds, and it is normal to have clear runny nose after a cold and fever. This will not only affect the child's image and give people a dirty feeling, but it is also very easy to turn into rhinitis if it is not treated in time. So what should children do if they have clear nasal discharge? What medicines should they take?

A baby's runny nose is one of the symptoms of a cold. There are basically three types of runny nose in children: clear runny nose, white sticky runny nose, and yellow runny nose. So what medicine should babies take for runny nose? But runny nose is not a disease, so parents should not give their children medicine at will. When a child has a runny nose, he or she just needs to drink more water. He or she can also drink some scallion water or brown sugar ginger soup to drive away the cold. When your nasal mucus becomes thick, just drink more hot water. When the mucus turns yellow, you can drink some honeysuckle water.

Several stages of runny nose and corresponding care points:

1. Clear runny nose. Children's crying and sadness will invade the lung qi and cause runny nose. Don't worry about it, just drink more water.

2. When you encounter a cold, the cold air will first enter your body, causing sneezing and a runny nose. If you have just discovered it, immediately drink plenty of hot water or wipe your face with hot water to enhance your body's ability to resist the cold. If it lasts for a long time, or the cold air has blocked your pores, you cannot sweat and only have a runny nose, you can boil water with hot foods such as ginger, scallion, cinnamon, etc. to produce heat and sweat to remove the cold.

3. If your nasal discharge lasts for a long time, it will damage the body fluids and generate heat in the body, or the body's resistance is basically successful, and the nasal discharge will become sticky. At this time, you can just drink more hot water.

4. The nasal discharge turns yellow due to excessive use of hot medicines, too long illness, or yin deficiency after illness, which leads to rising of virtual fire and the appearance of yellow nasal discharge. Depending on the severity of the disease, you can use boiled water, chrysanthemum water, or honeysuckle water to adjust the condition step by step. In addition, eat more foods that promote salivation.

Runny nose is not a disease, so do not take medicine at will, especially western medicine. If there are other symptoms that cannot be controlled, you can see a doctor for a solution, but you don’t need to use suppressive drugs. Instead, you should use methods that support the body for treatment. Washing your face with cold water regularly can enhance your ability to resist cold.

When a baby has a runny nose, his nose is often rubbed red, and he has a stuffy nose and difficulty breathing. How can we take care of a baby with a runny nose to make him feel more comfortable? Common care methods are as follows:

1. Hot compress

Method: Use a hot, wet towel to apply hot compress on the baby's nose.

Principle: When the nasal mucosa shrinks when exposed to heat, the nasal cavity will be more unobstructed and the sticky nasal mucus will be easier to hydrate and flow out.

Suggestions for use: Mothers should be gentle when applying hot compresses. If you find mucus in your baby's nostrils, you can first clean it with a cotton swab dipped in water; you can also slowly massage the baby's nose or both sides of the nose.

2. Essential oil hot compress

Method: Drop some essential oil on a hot towel or handkerchief and apply it on the baby's nose; or use essential oil spray and spray it in the air.

Principle: Some essential oils can be used for hot compresses to improve the swelling of the nasal mucosa and help relieve nasal congestion; essential oil sprays can improve the humidity of the air when the air is dry.

Usage suggestions: Do not use too much essential oil at one time, one drop is enough, because too high a concentration of essential oil will cause chemical irritation; in addition, do not use essential oil spray indoors for too long, and pay attention to maintaining appropriate air humidity.

Method: The breastfeeding mother drips the expressed breast milk into the baby's nostrils.

Principle: There may be a physical effect because the warmth of breast milk can temporarily unblock the baby's nasal cavity. However, there is currently no relevant medical evidence as to whether this is related to the composition of breast milk.

Suggestions for use: This method is a folk remedy and has no scientific evidence.

4. Turn on the air conditioner

Method: When the temperature drops and a cold wave hits, you can turn on the heater to change the room temperature.

Principle: Infants and young children are particularly sensitive to external environment and air stimulation, so they are prone to runny nose symptoms when the temperature drops sharply. When parents find that the room temperature is low, they can turn on the heater to raise the room temperature and relieve the baby's nasal congestion and runny nose symptoms.

Usage suggestions: Use the heater at a moderate time to avoid the room temperature being too high. The heat will also make the air dry. It is recommended that mothers put a wet towel to maintain the humidity in the room.