Colds
If a person constantly sniffles, but is healthy in appearance, there is no runny nose, cough or fever, then there is a possibility that he still has a cold, but the disease is asymptomatic and unnoticeable. This is especially noticeable in children, when the child simply sniffles for a long time, and then begins to cough and becomes completely ill.
1. The fact is that small ones with disease can flow down the wall of the nasopharynx. The child feels some discomfort and may sniff for a long time, trying to get rid of this discharge. The baby, without noticing, can swallow this secretion, and after a while begins to cough.
In such a situation, treatment should be done so that the discharge comes out through the sinuses. It is best to use sea water and salt solutions.
2. The same effect of the desire to constantly sniff can be caused by long-term use of vasoconstrictor drugs against the runny nose, because they dry out the nasal mucosa, sometimes even causing physiological changes in the nasopharynx.
3. Chronic adenoid disease can also cause sniffling, because with it the nasopharyngeal tonsils become inflamed, grow in volume, making breathing difficult.
What do tics bring with them in children?
Tics in children are accompanied by other undesirable manifestations: sleep problems, changeable mood, moodiness, tearfulness, fears. The child cannot fall asleep for a long time, he wakes up in the middle of the night, he may wake up early in the morning and not fall asleep, and during the day he will feel lethargic. The child becomes fearful, he is wary of the world, he does not have childish carelessness. Children with obsessions do not tolerate stuffiness well, quickly get tired of monotonous activities, from bright sights, they often have a vivid imagination and are impressionable.
Caries
The reason for the habit of sniffing is carious 6th and 7th teeth, because their roots are located in the maxillary sinuses. Inflammatory processes cause sniffling and treatment is necessary.
Some time ago, a sniffling baby was almost a symbol of childhood. A child with a runny nose was taken for granted, and local pediatricians answered the anxious questions of young mothers with the question: “Runny nose? Who doesn’t have it?”
It is clear that this cannot continue for long.
Parents do not want to put up with this situation, and buying packs of paper handkerchiefs, they are actively storming doctors’ offices, trying to achieve effectiveness in solving what has now become an eternal question: “ How to deal with snot?” " . Firstly
, sniffling, let alone wiping with your sleeve, is simply indecent - today such a child will not be understood.
And what’s worse, parents will certainly be condemned for inept upbringing. No one will be touched... Secondly
, literate people know well that nothing can happen without nothing.
A runny nose will sooner or later turn into some other disease. What do we know about allergic reactions in children? Who needs to know this? And than. Many mothers do not want to put up with antibiotics often prescribed by their local pediatrician. Who is right?
Doctor or parents? The chief physician of the Buteyko Clinic, Andrey Evgenievich Novozhilov, is clearly not indifferent to runny noses:
Today the most common allergic rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis is known all year round. But most often, a runny nose occurs seasonally, during the flowering period of trees and plants, known as hay fever. In ordinary medical practice, such a runny nose is considered incurable, as is the allergy itself. Drug treatment does not eliminate the problem itself, but only relieves its symptoms. If an allergic runny nose becomes alarming and the nose stops breathing, hormones are prescribed. Hormonal drugs have a good therapeutic effect, in a difficult situation - when, for example, allergic edema occurs - they are irreplaceable, although no one has canceled the side effects. The very word “hormones” causes panic among the majority of the population. And for good reason, the consequences of such treatment are unpredictable.
By the way, you absolutely cannot breathe through your mouth; you must “open” your nose by any means. Nature programmed us for nasal breathing. If a child breathes through his mouth and his nose does not work, it means that there is swelling of the mucous membrane in the nose. Since this same membrane descends into the bronchi, edema also develops there. In an asthmatic child, for example, we can judge the condition of his bronchi by the condition of his nose. A stuffy nose means an exacerbation is imminent. Allergic rhinitis is dangerous precisely because it is the first stage on the path to bronchial asthma. Chronic allergic rhinitis in children is called “bronchial asthma frozen in the nose”
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Everything happens quite quickly.
“It all starts from the nose and goes down to the bronchi,” as parents themselves often note during a dialogue at a doctor’s appointment. If “water” flows from the nose, for example, during the flowering period, the nose does not breathe, then this is a characteristic allergic runny nose. Hypersecretion of the mucous membrane. The use of antibiotics for allergic rhinitis is unacceptable; it can provoke a worsening of bronchial asthma, if any. Antibiotics in this case are an additional allergization for the body; they provoke allergic and inflammatory processes on the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. With our own hands we will make the child’s bronchial asthma flow all winter. This is a fairly common cold allergy. It is almost impossible to get rid of a year-round runny nose. You need to be guided by the nature of the discharge. In general, the number of potential allergens in the world is not limited. You never know where it will catch you... Skin tests are an expensive and not entirely objective procedure. We are often contacted by patients suffering from an allergen that was not detected by tests. We focus on the clinical picture according to the principle: there are complaints - there is an allergen...
If the runny nose is of a cold nature, then the child’s body does not resist infection. Nothing good, immunodeficiency. In general, any runny nose is a signal of trouble in a child’s body. You can’t brush it off, hoping that it will “go away on its own”! There are children whose noses are wet throughout the cold season. This is the so-called group of weakened children who catch colds easily. If a child has very low immunity, he is not able to cope with the flora that causes the inflammatory process. In this case, the doctor makes a differential diagnosis based on nasal discharge. He looks to see if the snot is clear or green... It’s all very simple, green discharge is microbial flora. It is known that swelling in the nose automatically spreads to the frontal and maxillary sinuses. This is clearly visible on x-rays. Headaches appear, a photo is taken - it goes dark. The flora got there and a purulent inflammatory process began. Everything is connected there, like communicating vessels! It is necessary to use correctly selected antibiotics. To develop a “colored” runny nose means to turn a child into a chronic patient in the very near future.
It is very important to promptly teach a child to blow his nose and not to suck in the contents of his nose... This is necessary not only from an aesthetic point of view, but also from a physiological one. Everything that he has “sniffed” into his sinuses will accumulate for the time being, and then will certainly “explode” with an exacerbation. How to cure chronic rhinitis in children
? The chronic form is more difficult to cure - the body does not resist this flora and that’s all. No strength. The microbe lives well there, in the sinuses, is suppressed by antibiotics, but does not die at all. This does not apply to children with strong immunity, but the weak ones get sick endlessly. An allergic runny nose also causes swelling in the nose, darkening on the X-ray, but when they make a puncture, there is no pus. When people come to me with sinusitis, I ask: was there pus? Treatment depends on the answer. In any case, the swelling must be removed! By all known means. The main thing is to establish nasal breathing.
It happens that water flows from the nose, but there is no congestion. There is no reason for joy here, it’s just that the swelling has not yet developed much. It's a gradual process, but the nose will close, sooner or later. Frequent colds, and even more so allergies, are always problems with the immune system. Metabolism will improve, immunity will increase, and there will be no place for a runny nose. At school they often say this: “If your child has a fever, you have the right not to go to class. But a runny nose and cough are not a reason to miss classes!” Parents are confused. But in fact, if you have an allergic runny nose, you can go to school, if it is not a severe allergy, which can cause fever and chills, a state of weakness, like with a cold. A good doctor must distinguish between these conditions. By nasal discharge, by provoking factors, by coincidences - for example, the manifestation of a runny nose at the time of bird cherry blossom... You can always understand whether this is an allergic condition or not. Maybe the day before the illness, the child was at a birthday party, ate a lot of “forbidden” sweets - and the child is allergic to food, or talked to a dog - and he is allergic to dogs or cats (cat allergy) ... All this matters for the production diagnosis. There was undoubtedly contact with the allergen, and the doctor is obliged to “unearth” it. This is his job. “Digging a medical history is the same as investigating a criminal case!” - say the doctors.
The doctor should ask the child and parents in detail about everything that happened before the exacerbation. Maybe the baby got his feet wet or played football in just a T-shirt? Here's a cold for you! Nothing just happens like that. The very appearance of the patient tells the doctor a lot. It is difficult not to notice a child with a cold: sour, lethargic, hot or, on the contrary, cold, he refuses food, toys and always tries to lie down. A cold runny nose often goes away on its own, in this it differs significantly from an allergic one. Allergic rhinitis in children remains unchanged for a long time. If a child sits at home in peace and warmth for a week, and the runny nose remains the same, it is most likely an allergy.
To take or not to take antibiotics is a constant headache for worried parents. Antibiotics can be prescribed only for high (more than 38 degrees), prolonged temperature. In a truly dangerous situation. With microbial flora, with a specific pathogen. Antibiotics are a very complex drug that destroys everything: both one’s own and someone else’s... E. coli is destroyed, immunity is reduced. A serious side effect is allergies and dysbacteriosis. Today there are enough laboratories, and if we are talking about a serious disease, it is recommended to do a culture test for antibiotic sensitivity. This takes 3 days and makes it possible to prescribe the correct drug. Of course, if you are in the mountains, in Crimea, and your child has a high fever, green snot and a cough with sputum, you don’t have to choose. By the way, the effectiveness of antibiotics is assessed based on three days of use: if there is no change for the better, change the drug immediately! And here's what else is important. We decided to “swallow” antibiotics - we need to take the full course and not give up halfway through. The doctor's word is law. Otherwise, the flora changes instantly and resistance to this drug develops. It won't work next time.
Parents should also pay attention to dry rhinitis in children.
as a type of runny nose. As a result of exposure to constant irritants, which can be, for example, heat, dry air or dust, the child’s nasal mucosa dries out and constant irritation occurs. The child constantly sniffles, but there is no discharge. In this case, it is necessary to restore the impaired functions of the mucous membrane, and with the help of Dr. Buteyko’s non-medicinal (!) scientific method, successfully used in our clinic since 1988, this is quite easy to achieve.
How to quickly cure rhinitis in children?
In most cases, the cause of the development of nasal pathology is a developed respiratory dysfunction. This disorder is called chronic alveolar hyperventilation or so-called. constant deep breathing
"child. Physiologist Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko back in the 60s of the last century, heading the laboratory of functional diagnostics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, through complex research and numerous experiments on studying hyperventilation syndrome in patients, identified a very important scientific discovery: deepening of breathing, which occurs in different ways. reasons, leads to a decrease in CO2, an extremely important participant in metabolism in the body. When alveolar CO2 decreases, metabolic processes begin to be disrupted and allergic inflammation begins. Following CO2 deficiency, metabolic disturbances occur and immunity decreases - the child becomes vulnerable to simple microbes and viruses. The lack of CO2 in the lungs is one of the conditions for the development of allergic inflammation, which increases the risk of developing bronchial asthma. By decreasing the depth of breathing, we raise the level of CO2 in the alveoli of the lungs and blood, normalize the immune system, relieve allergic reactions, and get rid of ailments.
And in order to eliminate a runny nose, a necessary and sufficient condition for recovery is the normalization of respiratory function. Maintaining the child’s respiratory function within the physiological norm will guarantee a healthy immune system.
The Buteyko method, as our successful long-term clinical practice has long proven, is the best remedy for chronic runny nose not only today, but also in the near future. Judge for yourself:
- It actually “opens” a stuffy nose in one session.
- The method is drug-free, i.e. no side effects.
- It has no contraindications for use.
- Absolutely physiological.
- To get a lasting positive result, a Basic course of treatment is enough - and you can forget about a chronic runny nose...
In the case of treating rhinitis in children, breathing exercises that are easy for the child to understand are used. Young children perceive treatment as a game, instantly grasping the essence and immediately achieving results. Our young patients are able to control their condition independently and relieve symptoms when they first appear. Mothers are not afraid to send such children on long trips - a runny nose will bypass them. Treatment using the Buteyko method is not only a relief of symptoms, but also an increase in immunity
, which is a strong protection against possible encounters with infection. Normalization of respiratory function by the Buteyko method puts in order the oxygen supply to the child’s body, restoring metabolic processes in the body. Often, sick children begin to study better, think faster, stop wasting away before our eyes, become immune to viral infections, cold, temperature changes, and exercise tolerance increases. The child is approaching the state of normal health that we all dream about. It's possible... Take the first step towards your child's health - come for a consultation.
Deviated nasal septum
. Most often, this problem occurs in the male part of the population. As a rule, as a result of trauma (including birth).
How to determine
:, disrupting air exchange in the sinuses, can be C- or S-shaped, as well as with spikes or so-called bone ridges. All the shortcomings of this design can be determined by a simple examination by an otolaryngologist, but in some cases an X-ray examination will be required.
What to do:
The only treatment for a deviated nasal septum is surgery. During the operation, the deviated sections of the nasal septum are removed. At the same time, the mucous membrane covering them is preserved.
Spout
My baby (2 months old) sniffles through his nose, there are sniffles, but they are far away, I can’t reach them with cotton swabs.. Girls, tell me how you clean your children’s noses...
This lasted for almost a month. Started at 1.5 months. I immediately started to panic, I didn’t sleep well at night, my nose was constantly squelching. They diligently sucked out the nozzles with an aspirator, dripped saline. solution. Then I read an article about physiological runny nose and realized that it is better to use an aspirator when the nose really isn’t breathing. I abruptly quit this activity, leaving only physical training. solution, and then somehow everything suddenly went away. So you need to approach everything wisely. An aspirator, of course, is a good thing, but in moderation.
Thank you for the article! now we are calm. Apparently we have begun the “wet mucous” stage. It gurgles occasionally, but nothing is sucked out.
If the child is under 2.5 months, then a sniffling nose does not necessarily indicate a disease. It’s just that in infants the mucous membrane begins to work only partially immediately after birth. Only at the age of up to 10 weeks does the mucous membrane of the nose and nasopharynx “turn on” in full force. The body conducts a test. First, the “dry” condition in the nose is checked (usually this goes unnoticed by mothers), and then the “wet” condition. This is where they get scared and begin to treat what is essentially a normal stage of child development. The body knows that it has produced a probable excess of moisture. He must realize it - and then they can intervene from the outside, start “blowing” the child’s nose, rinse the nasopharynx or drip medications. The test is not finished. And after some time, moisture will appear again, and in even greater quantities (after all, last time it was not enough! Everything went somewhere). It turns out to be a vicious circle.
That is why, if your child is under 2.5 months old and has a runny nose “suddenly” and there are no additional symptoms of any disease, most likely you have a “physiological runny nose.”
Signs of drug addiction are quite clearly divided into physiological, psychological and indirect. Let's look at them separately.
Pay attention to the eyes, nose, hands and speech
Eyes
If you have noticed, law enforcement officials often look into the eyes of citizens when searching them. Sometimes they ask to be allowed to check the reaction of the pupils with a flashlight. The eyes may be red, cloudy, yellowish, or glassy. This does not necessarily mean that the person has used a drug, but it may be one of the signs.
The behavior of the pupils can confirm or refute the guesses. Excessive dilation or constriction of the pupil in response to light (even external lighting) directly indicates a person’s intoxication. In a normal sober state, the pupil is not afraid of light. Its dimensions change smoothly and do not go to extremes. If the pupil does not react to light at all, this also indicates that the body is intoxicated.
Nose
A sniffling nose is a constant companion for most addicted people. If a person suddenly has a chronic runny nose, and he constantly blows his nose or sniffles, it means that his immunity is weakened. A runny nose is often accompanied by a cough. These symptoms accompany drug addiction, but they can easily be confused with the symptoms of a common cold. Therefore, such signs should be considered auxiliary, and conclusions should be drawn on the basis of several signs.
Hands
Fact: tremors can be observed in most drug addicts. This is when your hands shake uncontrollably. Tremor can be mild or severe. Most often it is caused by overwork of the nervous system and stress. Less commonly, diseases such as Parkinson's syndrome, which is considered age-related. But in addicted people it is also a sign of thyroid disease. So watch your hands.
Speech
With drug addiction, a transformation of speech is noted: it can become constrained, as if a person has problems with the maxillo-oral area or has experienced a stroke, or it suddenly becomes exaggeratedly expressive, relaxed and stretched out - “slack-faced”. All this is a consequence of a colossal blow to the nervous system.
Leather
Gradually, the skin of a drug addict becomes pale and dry. An additional signal is its blue tint. Direct evidence of injection drug use, of course, are injection marks and hidden veins on the arms, legs, neck and abdomen.
Hair
Addicted people do not take care of their appearance, so they look untidy and their hair is dirty and greasy. But since the body does not receive enough nutrients and is put into emergency mode, the hair of drug addicts is most often brittle and falls out profusely.
Watch for oddities in a person's behavior and mood
Lethargy
People who take drugs are characterized by lethargy, which can be mistaken for overwork or simple laziness. But this lethargy has a painful coloration. Types of lethargy can be considered inertia and passivity. Essentially, this is a “bell” that something is wrong with a person.
Problems with coordination
Under drugs or in the intervals between them, the patient has difficulty orienting himself in external space. This manifests itself in shaking hands, general awkwardness, he may drop objects or knock them over in his path, miss a door or chair. In general, the person gives the impression of an inhibited bull in a china shop.
Losing interest
Addicts tend to forget about all their previous hobbies and interests. A sharp cooling towards previous objects of interest, isolation in one’s own painful state or constant absence from home and non-attendance to school, work and interest clubs - all this speaks of drug addiction. People suffering from addiction are focused on one thing and indifferent to the rest of the world.
Psychological imbalance
Drugs are the cause of increased nervousness, for which there are no prerequisites in external circumstances. If a person’s nervousness and irritability are not motivated, this is a reason to think about its true causes. Drug addicts are also prone to causeless aggression. But at the same time, the behavior of patients is characterized by isolation. They prefer to be alone with their problem.
Disruption of daily routine
The first question psychiatrists ask patients is: “How do you sleep?” Patients with drug addiction experience sleep disturbances. Accordingly, the daily rhythm and the cycle of sleep and wakefulness changes. If you notice that a person close to you spends nights insomnia and chronically does not get enough sleep, then the cause may be drugs that have disrupted the natural cycle.
Appetite
Loss or, conversely, severe hunger is common among drug addicts. Again, the usual eating routine is disrupted. A person can literally starve or overeat. This may cause him to have problems with bowel movements. This can be understood by the amount of time spent in the toilet and the frequency of visits to the latrine.
Sunglasses and clothes
The typical image of a drug addict is a person wearing sunglasses, regardless of the time of year. Drug addicts hide their eyes behind glasses both outdoors and indoors. A sudden addiction to glasses is definitely a suspicious sign that cannot be ignored. Clothes are no less important - even in summer, a drug addict will wear a long-sleeve T-shirt and be afraid to wear shorts. The reason is obvious: punctured limbs. Patients with addiction choose discreet, gray or black clothes. It is often worn out, untidy and requires immediate washing.
Medicines in pockets and at home
As a rule, drug addicts become frequent visitors to pharmacies and consume large quantities of medications. Naturally, drops for a runny nose or pills for headaches cannot help with drug addiction. But packages of syringes and tablets, tubes and jars of drops are direct evidence of drug addiction.
Need for money
Even if the drug is not expensive, you need money to use it constantly. An increased need for money, theft of money or the loss of valuable items from home - drug addiction cannot exist without this. Therefore, as soon as something like this happens, sound the alarm immediately.
Summary
Reason two:
Polyps
. Enlarged in size, which are protrusions of the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity and its paranasal sinuses, sometimes reaching such sizes that they completely block the nasal passages.
How to determine
: You can suspect something is wrong by the occasional nasal voice, difficulty in nasal breathing, decreased or complete loss of sense of smell, discomfort in the nose, headaches or pain in the paranasal sinuses. You can confirm your suspicions only after a visit to an otolaryngologist who will perform a rhinoscopy or diagnostic endoscopy. The final picture will be provided by computed tomography, which allows you to determine how affected the paranasal sinuses are.
What to do
: Today, there are only symptomatic ones, aimed at removing polyps using a shaver - a thin tube at the end of which there is a miniature cutting instrument or using radio wave, laser “evaporation” of polyps. Another way to combat polyps is to slow down their growth with special hormonal sprays and antihistamines.
Tics in children - how to help your child?
Parents are struggling with obsessive behavior, that is, they are struggling with the consequences, which is a mistake. Parents should think about the general condition of the child, eliminate provoking factors, and normalize his life. The child needs to be shown to a neurologist, since obsessive tics may be a manifestation of some disease.
Some parents become irritated and react negatively when their children develop tics, but this only makes the problem worse. The child should not be shamed, convinced that everyone is looking at him and this is shameful. Such actions of yours will only intensify the manifestations of obsessive actions, since fear of expectation will be added to obsessions. Waiting for you to do this creates an even greater wave of tics.
In order to help your child get rid of tics, you need to communicate with him. You need to learn to pay attention to him by any means - playing games together, doing household chores together, reading, drawing. Boys are more prone to tics than girls. Girls express their anxieties, fears, and cry, while boys are more secretive. Convincing boys by force of will to end their tics will not work. Sports and any physical activity will be a good help. Sport helps relieve nervous tension and increases self-confidence.
The main factor remains the friendly and warm atmosphere in the family. The more joy, positive emotions, and lively human involvement with each other in the house, the easier the child will go through stressful situations and grow up healthy and mentally stable.
Tics in children are the consequences of suppressed emotions; tics can go away as the child grows up if he has allies in the person of his parents, who will show living human participation in eliminating the causes of tics, and will not scold and force them to give up harmful obsessions by force of will. (c) vitapower.ru
Reason three:
These hollow formations with liquid contents in the paranasal sinuses are quite common. Their sizes and locations can vary, and they can cause different problems.
How to determine
: Frequent complaints of patients with cysts of the paranasal sinuses are headache, a feeling of discomfort in the cheek, forehead, and occasionally, mucous discharge from the nose. Cysts can be asymptomatic; they are often discovered accidentally during X-rays, computed tomography scans of the paranasal sinuses, or during studies of brain structures.
What to do
: If the cyst causes discomfort in the area of the affected sinus, one-sided nasal congestion, surgery cannot be avoided. The most gentle and more physiological method is to remove cysts endoscopically - without external incisions, through the nose under optical control.
Reason four:
Untreated teeth
. Those who do not like to have their teeth treated also expose themselves to the risk of making money and subsequent complications. The danger zone is the sixth, seventh and eighth teeth of the upper jaw, the roots of which “look” into the maxillary sinuses. According to otolaryngologists, any inflammation of one of them in combination with a runny nose is an explosive “mixture”.
How to determine
: By contacting your dentist, who, if necessary, will prescribe an x-ray examination.
What to do
: Treat caries and other dental ailments.
