Patient's question:
Your child has a stuffy nose at night when sleeping and has yellow mucus in the morning. He has been sick for five days. What medicine should he take?Doctor's answer:
Currently, it is mostly considered a manifestation of respiratory infection. The suggestion is: physical exercise. Physical exercise helps to enhance children's physical fitness and reduce their defense against diseases. In addition to sports activities, air, sunlight, and water can also be fully utilized for exercise, such as opening windows for deep sleep, allowing children to breathe in cooler and fresher air, which can strengthen the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract and enhance their resistance to respiratory infections. Once children get used to deep sleep with open windows, outdoor deep sleep can be further promoted. Encourage children to engage in outdoor activities and get more sun exposure. Use warm foot baths, or cold face washes, hand washes, and foot washes. On this basis, gradually carry out three types of exercise (sunbathing, hydrotherapy, and air therapy) to achieve better results.Enhance nutrition. Obtaining various nutrients needed by the body helps to boost children's immunity. A lack of trace elements like zinc or vitamin A in the body makes children more prone to recurrent respiratory infections. Through proper dietary adjustments to increase the intake of zinc or vitamin A, or with zinc supplements and vitamin A pills, the immunity of these children can be significantly improved, and the incidence of respiratory infections can be markedly reduced.
Timely vaccination, such as receiving vaccinations for measles, pertussis, and rubella, can effectively enhance children's immunity against these respiratory infectious diseases, thereby cutting off the spread of these respiratory infections in the population.