If it is determined to be a viral cold, then the direction of medication is already clearer.

Generally viral colds in children are commonly caused by these viruses: rhinovirus. Coxsackie virus, parainfluenza virus, coronavirus, and others. Most of the colds that are commonly referred to are caused by viruses, sometimes in combination with bacterial infections.

Colds are self-limiting and last five to seven days. So if the symptoms are mild, you don't need to use medication, just keep warm and drink plenty of fluids. Although it is self-limiting, improper care can cause symptoms to worsen, and it is time to consider medication.

Then with medication, it is sufficient to give antiviral treatment and then antibiotics if there is a bacterial infection.

Oseltamivir, commercially known as Tamiflu, can shorten the duration of the illness if taken within 24h after confirming the nature of the cold (flu), but should not be used for more than 48h. This medicine should be used with caution in children under 1 year of age.

However, there is no specific medicine for viral colds.

Specifically, medications can be given to address the symptoms of a cold on a case-by-case basis.

Like a stuffy nose:

You can use a hot towel on your nose to draw in the heat, which can help soothe a stuffy nose. Ephedrine can also reduce nasal congestion, but it is generally not recommended as its side effects are also noticeable.

Like sneezing and sniffling:

Antihistamine drugs such as loratadine can be applied. Chlorpheniramine, which is usually found in compound cold medicines, is also in this category.

Like coughing:

Coughing, like vomiting, is an instinctive protective response of the body. Coughing coughs up phlegm or other foreign matter, so cough suppressants should be used with caution. Only severe dry cough without phlegm should be suppressed, so as not to interfere with normal rest. If there is phlegm, then phlegm-modifying drugs such as Ambroxol can be applied.

Like a fever:

A low-grade fever does not need to be taken too seriously, and physical cooling is sufficient. If it is over 38.5°C, then you need to take acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Acetaminophen is a little safer, and when applied, acetaminophen should be taken no more than five times a day and ibuprofen no more than four times a day. Ibuprofen is irritating and is usually taken with food. Seek medical attention if high fever control does not work.

There are a variety of children's compounded children's cold remedies on the market that contain several of these ingredients and are usually effective. For example, pediatric aminophenol xuanamin granules. However, it is not recommended for long-term use, as each ingredient has certain side effects, which can cause damage to children's bodies over a long cumulative period of time.

Also note that

When there is a combination of bacterial infection, it can be determined by general experience first, such as yellow snot, thick sputum, etc. If it can not be confirmed, then you need to do blood routine to see the white blood cell count. Antibiotic application is best to consult the pharmacy pharmacist or doctor, if there is no relevant knowledge base do not self-medicate. General application of amoxicillin, amoxicillin clavulanate potassium, cephalosporins are more, are antibacterial spectrum is broader.

What's better for kids with viral colds and precise medication?

A: Greetings and thanks for the invitation.

Viral colds in children are usually a respiratory infection caused by a variety of viruses. Induced by cold, rain, fatigue, malnutrition, etc., the symptoms are runny nose and sore throat,a blocked noseEven headaches, etc.

First, in general, the conditioning of small children with viral colds

1. If your child is resistant and it is not too serious, he or she can return to health in a week or so without medication.
   

2. You should keep warm, get plenty of rest, and keep the environment you live in somewhat warm and humid.
   

3. Small children with viral colds should eat a light diet with plenty of warm water and thin, soft, well-digested foods; on the contrary, they should be on theGreasy and fried foods should be avoided to avoid aggravating a cold.
   

Second, a few suggestions about viral colds in small children that require precise medication:

1. Many parents see small children with colds, very anxious, will go to choose some drugs to give small children to take. For example, with some pediatric cold medicine, as well as add some phlegm cough granules, and even add their own cefixime, this is really not work! Said above, if the general situation, small children are best not to take medicine, is usually to pay attention to adjust the diet, that is, pay attention to let your child drink more water, eat some soup soup, add some leafy vegetables, fresh fruit can be, a week or so can be restored to health.

2. At the same time, you should not use some antibiotic medicines on your own for small children with viral colds, as this will have a negative impact on the body of small children, and it is recommended to use them with caution.
   

3. It is advisable to treat viral colds in small children under the supervision of a doctor, and it would be better and safer for your child if you don't administer the medication yourself.
   

The concept of a viral cold is just wrong. There are two types of colds, the common cold, which is caused by over 200 viruses, and the influenza, which is caused by several influenza viruses; therefore, colds are all viral and there is no such thing as a bacterial cold.

In the causes of colds, bacteria are secondary, often bacteria that normally reside inside the body overpopulate or break through barriers because of viruses that cause the body's defenses to weaken, are not the primary factor in causing illness, and usually do not need to be treated for bacterial infections; by the time the body overcomes the viral infections, it will naturally be able to fight off and destroy these bacterial proliferations.

The emphasis on bacterial colds is a sign of the outdated knowledge of Chinese doctors and an excuse for their misuse of antibiotics.

The concept of precision medication is also wrongThe cold is a self-healing disease. Colds are self-healing diseases, even the influenza, but also only symptomatic adjuvant treatment, and there is no effective medicine for the treatment of colds, the treatment of influenza such as Tamiflu and other drugs can at best shorten the course of the disease by half a day.

Cold and flu are the most common diseases, but also the hardest hit by drug abuse. Once upon a time, it was indiscriminate use of IVs and antibiotics, or Western medicine and Chinese medicine together, or antibiotics and antiviral drugs together indiscriminately. Now that the public has been alerted to drug abuse, some people are using the banner of precision medicine, but in the end, it is still drug abuse.

Colds are self-healing illnesses that do not require medication.

In fact, there is a classic saying about colds, which is that a cold is better in seven days with medicine and a week without. In fact, many times, the cold itself is a self-limiting disease, even if you do not take medicine, it can also be self-limiting.

Especially for small children, parents see a small child cold, immediately worried about a lot, what Chinese medicine particles, Western medicine antibiotics, what hormone nebulizer, what navel paste all used, in fact, is simply over-treatment.

In terms of the nature of colds, basically all colds are actually viral colds, except that sometimes they are combined with bacterial infections. In the case of viruses, our body's immunity will work to get rid of them, so many times you will get better even if you take medicine, and you will get better without medicine for a cold.

For children with mild colds, who do not have fever and are in good spirits, you can drink more water and take more rest to help the body get rid of the virus faster. If the symptoms are more serious, then some antiviral drugs, such as oseltamivir, can be applied. If the fever is accompanied by fever, you can use physical cooling, or ibuprofen or acetaminophen.

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First you have to go to a proper hospital to get checked for a viral cold.

Influenza is a mild, self-limiting infection in most previously fit children, and giving these children unnecessary treatment, even when they are seen early in their course of illness, may result in a reduced supply of medications in patients who are at higher risk of developing serious illness. In addition, misuse of treatment may promote the development of antiviral drug resistance.

Tests - Laboratory confirmation of influenza virus infection requires isolation of influenza virus from respiratory secretions or other samples (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid, muscle or tissue biopsy) or detection of viral proteins or viral RNA.Negative antigenic tests do not rule out influenza infection.

If oseltamivir treatment is given within 12 hours of symptom onset, the duration of symptoms can be reduced by up to 3 days, and younger children may benefit even more. A randomized trial showed that in children aged 1-3 years, initiating oseltamivir treatment within 24 hours of symptom onset reduced the median time needed for disease remission by 3.5 days.

Strengthen the baby's exercise. Normal diet, eat more than easy to intestinal dysfunction and lead to constipation or cold accumulation. Therefore, children's daily intake of food as long as the metabolic needs can be met, "often with three hunger" is still beneficial.

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I don't recommend that children take medication for minor illnesses, but for minor colds, drinking plenty of water will do the trick. Viral colds I suggest using three or four bearded onions and seven or eight pieces of ginger, or add a few cloves of garlic together with boiled water to drink while hot, sweating than taking any medicine is useful. Besides, viral cold antibiotics and hormones do not work on it will also reduce the child's immunity, and spend money and suffer, why bother!

Sometimes parents can't help but sigh when they see the list of medicines prescribed by the doctor, "Where do you need so many medicines for just a cold and fever?" It is the responsibility of every parent to have some knowledge about medication. Next, the pharmacist in charge of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 117th HospitalZou Jie (1885-1945), a martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, died in jail in 1905We are going to give you a few common easy to misuse cold and flu remedies that must be used with care!

Even if the doctor prescribes these two medications for your child.Think twice about using it.

1. Pediatric Amphenol Xuanamin Granules

Pediatric Amphenol Flavonamins Granules is a compounded cold and flu medicine with several healing ingredients in the medicine, which can be used to relieve fever, headache, nasal congestion and runny nose caused by cold or flu. But because it contains several ingredients, the risk of adverse drug reactions for your child becomes higher.

In 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the withdrawal of all cold and flu remedies marketed for use in children under two years of age, specifying in the drug insert that "compounded cold and flu remedies are not recommended for use in children under the age of four.

2. Ribavirin granules (viral azole)

In fact, this medication is only considered in severe pneumonia caused by respiratory syncytial virus. Ribavirin is not recommended if your child has just a mild cold, or if he or she has the flu, even if it is determined to be viral!

It has even been partially reported that ribavirin is highly toxic and can cause hemolytic anemia and remittent anemia in addition to teratogenicity and cancer.Children's functions are not yet perfect, the side effects of drugs affect them more, parents must pay attention!

Antibiotics are not anti-inflammatories.Keep these in your home medicine cabinet

Many parents have this misunderstanding, that antibiotics are anti-inflammatory drugs, the medicine box are stocked with drugs such as "amoxicillin clavulanate potassium", "clarithromycin", the child is sick to give him antibiotics.

In fact, antibiotics are not the same as anti-inflammatory drugs, children are more sensitive to drugs, the application of antibiotics allergic rashes, vomiting, diarrhea, the chances of occurrence of higher than adults. Some antibiotics, such as cefoperazone, may affect the coagulation function of children, so that children are prone to bleeding, if the application of these antibiotics, parents need to pay attention to the child there are no tiny bleeding spots, or stools become black.

So don't just use antibiotics, and it's not recommended to always have antibiotics at home.Then the family medicine box in the end should prepare what medicine? Zou pharmacist listed the following list of drugs:

▲Recommendations for home standing medications

A child is not a miniature version of you.You can't give your child adult medication.

Children are not scaled-down adults, children's organs and systems are not yet mature, for the absorption of drugs, metabolism, excretion, etc. has its own characteristics, so the child must use a special drug, and can not take a reduced version of the adult drug.

Three points need to be emphasized here about medication for children:

1. Pay attention to these words in the manual

If there is any indication of contraindication or caution for children, or if there is a lack of appropriate indications and dosage for children, or if it is written that there is a lack of efficacy and safety data for children under 16 years of age, it is important to be careful not to use it on your child without authorization.

2. Look at the drug dosage unit

● Is it a spoon or a teaspoon? Is it an ounce, milliliter or milligram? These are all completely different units of dosage;

● Use a measuring tool, such as a small spoon or measuring cup, that comes with the medication package to ensure an accurate dose;

● Some medicines are labeled as a one-day supply, which should be divided by the number of times the medicine is used each day to avoid overdose.

3. Convert the dose of medicine for your child according to the weight dosage

If the dosage is on the instructions and age and weight do not match, weight is the main factor. Because weight varies greatly among children of the same age, it is not scientific to use age to convert dosages.

Dot Reminder:

Do not mix adult medicines with children's medicines. Many adult medicines are not suitable for babies. Some medicines have the same name, but the dosage form, specification and dosage are different for babies and adults, and should not be used indiscriminately.

There is no medication that prevents colds, so stop giving your child medication!

Many parents ask, "Many children in kindergarten have colds and fevers, should I give my child some medicine as a precaution?"In fact there is no medication at all that can prevent it, except for the vaccine! Prevention! Senses! The cholera!Even the vaccine is only for specific influenza and is ineffective for the common cold.

Occasional fever, nasal congestion and phlegm are evidence that your child's immune system is working properly, so it is not recommended that you recommend your child take medication for prevention; too much medication is bad for your child.

If you are sure it's a viral cold, just take good care of it, keep warm, eat a light diet and drink plenty of warm water. There's basically nothing you can do about it except for the psychological effects. Of course, we should always pay attention to the child's condition, some viral colds later serious bacterial infections caused by the need for antibiotics, if the child has been a high fever does not go down, you can go to the hospital to do a blood test, the doctor will prescribe.

Look at how the guy in "Middle-aged Beijing with the Flu" spent over a million dollars before he died. Antiviral treatment for colds is a scam, and no one in the U.S. believes it, but some people in China do.

Chinese medicine to treat colds, regardless of the virus or bacteria, there is evidence of the use of medicine, 90% of the half-payment of medicine cured. Of course, the premise is to find a real Chinese medicine practitioner.

Pediatric fever causes are quite a lot, clinically can be divided into infectious and non-infectious, with infectious more common, such as colds and so on is the most common cause of fever need to first clarify the cause of the disease, for the cause of the treatment, the body temperature is too high when it is easy to cause pediatric febrile convulsions, so there is a need to control the body temperature, the main use of drugs to reduce the temperature and the physical cooling methods, the specific use of medication is best to be able to under the guidance of a doctor. The use of specific drugs is best under the guidance of a doctor.

Rest more, drink more water, pay attention to the isolation of the respiratory tract, and prevent complications. Commonly used antiviral drugs are virus azole, virus spirit, traditional Chinese medicine such as honeysuckle and panax quinquefolium, etc. Symptomatic medicines include cold and flu proprietary medicines, some cold and flu preparations and antipyretic medicines. There are also antiviral nasal drops and eye drops. The medication for colds is not very important, the important thing is to take good care of the child, monitor the body temperature, prevent fever, let the child ensure enough sleep, enough water and nutrition, pay attention to the regression of the disease, the occurrence of comorbidities.

Colds are self-limiting diseases, the virus has a certain period of survival in the body. The virus has a certain period of survival in the body, until it gets better naturally in the course of the disease. In addition, the efficacy of some antiviral drugs is not very reliable, some kill white blood cells, resulting in a decrease in white blood cells, therefore, the clinical use of traditional Chinese medicine to clear away heat and detoxification, such as honeysuckle, panax notoginseng and so on. If the symptoms are severe, some symptomatic medicines are taken, such as cold and flu preparations and fever-reducing medicines.

Baby viral cold fever a few days can get well

Baby cold and fever make adults worry, can not wait to transfer the pain to their own body, for the baby to bear, we all know that usually colds usually at least 3, 4 days to get well, some of the poor resistance may drag a week or two to get well. The baby is sick toxic cold and fever, usually need a few days to get well?

1. From a medical point of view, the viral period is 7 days.

From a medical point of view, whether it is a baby or an adult, the viral period of a viral cold is generally 7 days, that is to say, viral colds and fevers generally take 7 days to recover completely.

2, specific days, need to be based on the baby's physical condition and the effect of the drugs used

Generally speaking, viral colds are characterized by recurring fever for several days. This recurring fever usually lasts for 3-5 days in children (3-3 days in adults), which is the rule of the body's immune system to fight against the disease, and the exact number of days to get well will not be the same due to the difference in the individuals.

Note: If after 3-5 days of recurrent fever, the baby's fever still can not go down, then we should pay attention to it, should go to the hospital for examination and treatment, and at this time, because of the changes in the condition, it is likely to produce bacteria, need to be based on the results of the doctor's diagnosis, to see if the use of antibiotics.