When your baby down with the flu, he would feel tortured. Blocked nose, headache and rheumatic pain joints definitely. No wonder if your child will fuss and cry. This condition will certainly make the mother becomes anxious and panicky fact, though seen tortured, toddlers or infants who actually have enough endurance to face the attack of flu.
Why the baby could have a flu?
Flu posed by the immune system is not perfect baby up easily attack the flu virus, especially in infants. It should be noted, sneezing and coughing in infants who have the flu is actually a part of the body’s defense mechanism against viruses.
Flu symptoms in babies
Almost the same with adults, the flu in babies usually accompanied by symptoms such as sneezing, nasal blockage, runny nose and cough. Normally, the flu that attacked the child will usually last for five to six days.
Infection
Toddlers and young children are usually infected with flu by touching, not through the air when sprayed by a person sneezes. That process, begun when the person who had the flu the child touches his or exchange a toy, then meneteslah nasal fluid on the skin or children’s toys. Now, when the child touched any toy that virus entered his body through the nose.
Flu treatment for babies
Actually there is no cure for flu. This disease will heal itself in line with increasing patient body condition. Drugs are usually given by truth rather than to cure the flu but only to relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion appears, sneezing, runny nose, and fever. That’s why doctors often recommend acetaminophen or ibuprofen to relieve pain and fever.
Baby, toddlers and young children is the age group most susceptible to possible side effects caused by the flu drug. Because flu drugs usually cause reactions such as caffeine which increase heart rate and blood pressure. So do not be surprised if the post is given cold medicine is usually getting a little more and more fussy and restless and have trouble sleeping.
Tips for mom
When the baby got the flu, food intake is usually not optimal because he was not in the mood to eat. That’s why trying to do in order to get adequate fluid intake to prevent dehydration, such as breast milk or formula. Although only in the form of fluids, breast milk and formula milk has high nutritional adequacy, so it helps the recovery process.
If the child is still fussy and would not eat or drink, Ceramic only way to feed him little by little.In order not to feel eneg, can be given plain water or fruit juice so that feels fresher.
Give your baby feel comfortable, because in these conditions tend to be fussy baby and crying. A sense of comfort will help him to rest comfortably thus speeding up the healing process.
When to go to doctor?
Most cases of the flu will recover itself as the child’s body condition has improved. But sometimes, children who got the flu should get immediate medical help. Like:
- Quick breath or breathed.
- His condition continued to deteriorate with signs of pale, limp, and did not want to talk.
- High fever for more than two or more days.
- Children seem very mild pain and help from parents did not help.
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