Patient's question:
Your child has a stuffy nose at night while sleeping and has yellow mucus in the morning. He has been losing water 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, you can also make full use of air, sunlight, and water for exercise, such as opening windows for deep sleep, allowing children to breathe in cooler and fresher air, which can strengthen the respiratory mucosa and enhance the resistance of the respiratory tract. Once children get used to deep sleep with open windows, you can further promote outdoor deep sleep. Encourage children to engage in outdoor activities and get more sun exposure. Use warm water for foot baths, or cold water for face washing, hand washing, and foot washing, etc. On this basis, gradually carry out three types of exercises (sunbathing, hydrotherapy, and air therapy) to achieve better results.Enhance nutrition. Obtaining various nutrients the human body needs is beneficial for boosting children's immunity. A lack of trace elements zinc or vitamin A in the body makes children more prone to recurrent respiratory infections. Through proper dietary adjustments to increase the intake of trace elements zinc or vitamin A, or by using zinc preparations and vitamin A pills for treatment, the immunity of these children can be significantly improved, and the incidence of respiratory infections can be markedly reduced.
Timely vaccination, such as getting vaccinated against measles, pertussis, and rubella, can effectively enhance children's immunity against these respiratory infectious diseases, thereby cutting the spread and prevalence of these respiratory infections in the population.