Children who get a cold without proper care and timely treatment can easily lead to dangerous complications. What complications is that and how to avoid it?
Careful care for a cold child can make a baby's condition worse
Common symptoms of a child with a cold are sneezing and a runny nose. Just a little sketch in the care, mother inadvertently allows bacteria to grow in the mucus fluid to accumulate in the nose and chest. These bacteria are inherently present in the nose and throat, but only in very small amounts. Taking advantage of colds, they proliferate continuously for 7-10 days.
Children with colds due to seasonal changes, how to take care of them correctly? Do you know, children often catch colds about 8 times / year, especially when the weather changes? To help children recover quickly, mothers should consult the following useful information for the best care of their children.
After this time, one of the colds goes away on its own, all the mucus containing bacteria is expelled; the second is that the bacteria are too overcrowded, causing a secondary infection. The disease then appears in the sinuses, chest or ears. The most typical includes the following 4 complications:
1 / Children with a cold turn to ear infections
The phenomenon of fluid retention in the middle ear cavity behind the eardrum causes tinnitus and mild ear pain. If the bacteria continue to grow, ear infections get worse, making ear pain worse. When the baby has a cold, the mother should pay attention to the baby's ears.
If the child has moderate, intermittent ear pain, and does not get tinnitus, it is not an ear infection. Children under 1 year old do not know how to express it through words, mothers should pay attention to other symptoms, such as irritability, anorexia, fever, or scratching their ears.
2 / Risk of sinus infection due to cold
When the bacteria in the sinus cavity near the nose multiply enough to cause an infection, that's when the cold turns to sinusitis. The mother can detect the disease based on the following signs:
-Baby has a green nose for more than 10 days.
-Baby often has headaches, pain or tightness behind and around the eyes, in the forehead or upper cheeks.
- The child's eyes appear a lot of flakes, accompanied by the above-mentioned symptoms.
Children have fever, fatigue, drowsiness, inactivity, anorexia.
- The child's face is swollen under the eyelids.
- Must use mouth to breathe, cough with phlegm, chest pain, fever for more than 5 days.
3 / Bronchitis caused by colds
When a child has a cold due to the virus, a cough with phlegm can lead to bronchitis when the following symptoms add up:
- Better than 5 days.
Chest pain when coughing.
- Rapid and hissing breath.
When excess mucus accumulates in the lungs, the disease easily progresses to pneumonia. Mother can detect the disease based on the following signs:
Children with fever over 38 degrees for more than 5 days.
-Child has difficulty breathing, or is breathing rapidly and excruciatingly, the shoulders move with the rhythm of breathing.
-Child has pain in the chest.
- The condition worsened suddenly.
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