Alternative Cold Treatments for 2-4 Year Olds

Infants and young children with colds after taking medication is difficult, if you can use simple methods, no injection, no medicine, you can achieve the purpose of the treatment of colds, adults and children are happy. Infant colds can use the following kinds of simple therapies: 1, fill the umbilical cord therapy: that is, the drug is placed in the navel, by means of the method to play the effect of medicine. For wind-heat type colds, available onion white 30 grams, forsythia 15 grams, common pounded, into the gauze bag filled with put on the navel, and so on will be sweating, to give the child to drink a small amount of warm boiled water, in order to promote its sweating. For wind-cold cold, use 30 grams of scallion white, ginger 1 slice, pepper 5-7 grains. The 3 flavors together, pounded, packed into a gauze bag, filled with the navel, while drinking warm boiled water in moderation to help drive away the cold, promote sweating and then removed. 2, grip palm therapy: (1) in addition to cold grip palm method: suitable for young children by the wind-cold cold. Medicine to take mint, windproof each 15 grams, ginger 2 pieces (sore throat without). First of all, mint, windbreak powder, and then ginger mud mix, add a small amount of water mix thick, installed in two 7-10 cm long strip of small gauze package, placed in the child’s two palms, outside the long gauze wrapped fixed, about 15-20 minutes to release. (2) antipyretic palm method: suitable for young children with colds, mild fever or cough. Medicine to take mint, lotus buckthorn each 9 grams, orange red 6 grams. Common mashed, boiled water to mix, divided into two gauze packets, grip method as above, even if the drug held in the palm, by absorbing the drug. 3, push pinch rubbing method: for children with colds and fever, or cool sweat closed, medicinal white onion 100 grams, 6 grams of mint leaves, 150 milliliters of yellow wine, stewed hot, the white onion on a clean mortar, 200 milliliters of warm boiled water, mashed to take the juice poured into a clean cup, add mint leaves, the stewed hot wine rushed in and stirred, and then, with a soft silk cloth or disinfected gauze dipped in the liquid, gently rubbing the nose (i.e., the nose prongs), gently rubbing the nose (that is, the sides), gently rubbing the nose, and then the nose, and the nose, and the nose, and the nose, and the nose. (i.e. both sides of the nose), gently rub the two solar plexus points, the seventh cervical vertebrae (slightly level with the shoulders), push and pinch the spine and both sides of the tailbone, rub the two elbow bends, the two leg bends, and the hearts of the two hands. Each 15-20 times, remember to use light force, the force should be uniform and moderate. 4, compress method: for children with wind-heat colds, take 10 fresh dillon into the bowl, sprinkle sugar appropriate amount, a few moments after the dillon due to extravasation of body fluids and die, and then into the appropriate amount of flour and into the paste, made into a diameter of 3 cm of the cake two, sub-posted chimney door and the Shen Que point, each post 4-6 hours, 2 times a day, even post 2-3 days effective. 5, protect the respiratory tract to improve breathing methods: for children with nasal congestion symptoms, improve breathing there are some very old but still effective methods. First, before going to bed with a hot towel to the child’s nose. The hot steam can temporarily relieve nasal congestion, which can make breathing smooth and comfortable. The second is to let the child take the side of the way to sleep, this sleeping position can reduce the pressure of the nasal cavity from the side of the bed, so that it is gradually open, pat the back to promote phlegm, to closely observe the temperature, breathing and other changes in the condition of the child, if necessary, sent to the hospital for consultation and treatment. 6, dietary regimen: generally speaking, the recovery period of the cold needs at least seven days or so. So far there is no medicine that can make the child fully recover in a shorter period of time. In the diet should be given a light, easy to digest, high protein, high vitamin diet, protein to choose eggs or soy products, eat more green vegetables and fruits to supplement the body’s essential vitamins, the best warm food, or boiled water to drink, drink more water, temporarily do not eat meat, fish, shrimp; Avoid eating cold food, and, at the same time, let the child rest more.