How to prevent and treat acute laryngitis in children

How to prevent and treat acute laryngitis in children? Many parents are troubled by this problem and do not want their children to suffer from the disease. Acute laryngitis in children is the abbreviation of acute laryngitis, trachea and bronchitis. Chinese medicine calls it "lock throat wind, acute throat syndrome", etc. It is a common acute and severe disease in infants and young children during sudden changes in temperature or cold seasons. It is characterized by hoarseness, cough like dog barking, accompanied by varying degrees of inspiratory wheezing, and worsening at night. It is prone to complications of laryngeal obstruction, pneumonia, and heart failure, and severe cases can be life-threatening.

Acute laryngitis in children is common in infants and young children aged 6 months to 3 years.

Usually, we should strengthen prevention to prevent babies from getting laryngitis:

Take your baby to crowded and polluted places less often; do some outdoor activities every day, get more sun exposure, and open windows for ventilation even in winter. Add more clothes to your child in time to avoid catching cold.

In addition, we should correct children's wrong vocalization methods, such as shrill shouting, etc., teach children to maintain oral hygiene, and develop good habits of brushing teeth in the morning and evening and rinsing mouth after meals. Eating more fruits or dried fruits such as pears and plums is beneficial to the maintenance of the throat and enhances the disease resistance of the throat.

If your baby has acute laryngitis, he should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Acute laryngitis is a serious disease that must be treated in hospital. Emergency treatment is required. Antibiotics and hormones are used to fight inflammation and reduce laryngeal edema. Severe cases require intramuscular injection or intravenous drip of hormones and ultrasonic atomization of drugs. For children with extreme breathing difficulties and suffocation, tracheotomy should be performed immediately to ensure airway patency.

Diet therapy for acute laryngitis in babies: 200g sugar cane, 200g white radish, 6g honeysuckle, 6g bamboo leaves, 20g rock sugar. Peel the sugar cane and cut into sections; peel the white radish and cut into pieces; wash the honeysuckle and bamboo leaves separately; put them in a pot together, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer for about 30 minutes; when the soup is almost done, add rock sugar and cook until it melts. It can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten dryness and harmonize the stomach, and resolve phlegm and relieve asthma.