How to drink chamomile for children for cold and flu?

Chamomile pharmacy is a plant that can be used to treat colds for almost all members of the family, regardless of age, including young children. After all, the plant does not have a harmful toxic effect on the body, does not inhibit the growth and development of the child, does not adversely affect the fragile skeleton and the immune system of the baby. On the contrary, its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, proizvomikrobnoe and soothing effect will help the child's body to cope with the disease more quickly.

In some sources, you can find information that daisy is contraindicated for children under 1 year. On what basis such a statement is unclear. And pediatricians themselves recommend using a decoction of chamomile literally from the first days of a baby's life: for bathing with irritation of tender skin, allergic manifestations or childhood diseases, and for ingestion, if the baby has caught a cold, which often happens when the child is cold or sweating at first then froze. Many unnecessarily caring parents try to wrap their child, and provoke frequent colds.

Children up to a year for oral intake of the doctors are advised to give a weak chamomile tea. The only serious limitation in childhood is the daily dose of chamomile preparations. Newborn chamomile with cold can give only a few spoons, carefully watching the baby's condition. It is preliminary recommended to apply the finished composition to the skin in the area of the wrist and observe during the day, whether an allergic reaction will appear. If there are no stains on the baby's handle, it does not become unnecessarily restless, does not scratch the place of application, so you can try to give tea in small portions instead of water.

Chamomile tea will help the baby not only fight the cold, but also avoid the appearance of painful intestinal colic. True, if the baby is breastfed, the amount of chamomile tea offered to the baby will need to be further restricted so that the grass does not interfere with the absorption of iron from the mother's milk. In principle, mother's milk already contains almost all the necessary substances to fight against colds and infections.

How to drink chamomile for children with a cold? To babies of the first 4 months for reception give on 2-3 ch.l. Chamomile tea or pour it into a bottle of vodichka, offering babies in small portions. Older children (5-6 months) with cough and cold can give chamomile tea or a decoction of flowers in an amount not exceeding 100 ml per day, dividing it into 3 equal parts. The composition should have a temperature of about 40 degrees. Children 1-3 years of age, the daily dose is increased to 150-200ml.

Will help chamomile tea kids also in the case of bacterial or viral infections of the ENT organs. In this case, the chamomile broth can be used to rinse the throat (when the child is already learning how to do it), ingestion, inhalation, warm compresses to the neck area.

When colds such as runny nose and cough appear, inhalations with a filtered liquid plant composition that can be poured into a steam inhaler or a nebulizer (if it is not forbidden by the instructions to the device) are especially useful, or let the baby breathe over a bowl with enough hot (but not scalding ) by the ferry.

Such inhalations will help alleviate nasal or mouth breathing due to a moisturizing and anti-inflammatory effect. Particles of the medicinal composition, settling on the nasal mucosa and bronchi, will remove inflammation and swelling of the tissues, thus widening the lumen for airflow into the lower respiratory tract. And antimicrobial properties of chamomile will help to fight with settled on mucous bacteria.

In the treatment of children can be used not only tea, infusions and decoctions of chamomile (one-component and combined with the use of other medicinal herbs). The greatest concentration of nutrients is contained in the root of the plant and essential oil of chamomile, which can also be used for inhalations. But there are certain limitations. Inhalations with essential oils doctors do not advise to spend children under 3 years, since in this case there is a high risk of bronchial or laryngospasm development, which are noted as a special kind of allergic reaction in young children.

Recipes from chamomile for children

A child's organism is considered to be more tender and sensitive than an adult. That is why in children more often there are allergic reactions and respiratory tract cramps at inhalations. Typically, drugs intended for the treatment of children have a lower dosage. The weight of a child is much less than that of an adult, so doses, insufficient for the treatment of parents, are effective for the therapy of the baby.

But the condition of lower doses concerns not only synthetic drugs, but also herbal preparations used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. A low dosage of the active substance will reduce the likelihood of side effects and the appearance of symptoms of an overdose.

Immediately mention that chamomile tea, infusions and decoctions of flowers and chamomile grass is not the best choice as a healthy drink for every day. A small chamomile tea can be given to a child during the period of binge infection as a preventive remedy, which can be taken in small portions and preferably 1 time in 2-3 days.

Infusions and broths of chamomile for colds are recommended to drink daily, but the course is not more than 7 days, after which you must make a break for at least a couple of days.

Tea for a child should be less strong than for an adult, so to prepare it for 1 cup of boiling water is recommended to take on the dining room, and a teaspoon of herbs. If the baby is not allergic to honey, you can add it to the tea to improve the taste. But a raspberry or currant jam is also suitable.

You can dilute chamomile tea with a decoction prepared from raspberry vines, and then it will effectively help against cold symptoms such as fever, fever and chills.

If the family is ill, both adults and children do not necessarily have to prepare chamomile tea separately. You can prepare it for an "adult" recipe of 2 tablespoons. Chamomile and 1 cup of boiling water, and then dilute 1: 1 with warm boiled water.

With colds you can give babies and infusion of chamomile. True, in infancy, mothers still prefer a weak broth, the proportions for which the doctor will tell the pediatrician, based on their condition and the characteristics of the baby's body. Self-medication at this age can have deplorable consequences.

How to give chamomile babes for colds? Children up to six months are recommended to give a weak tea from chamomile, pouring it into a bottle with a pacifier. A portion for one reception should contain about 2-3 spoons of a drink. Offers the child a drink several times a day, controlling that the total daily volume does not exceed 100 ml.

Half-year old baby and older children can already safely offer infusion of chamomile. Half a liter of boiling water take 1 tablespoon. Dry chamomile flowers, put the container with infusion into the water bath and stand on low heat for at least 20 minutes, then remove from heat and leave to infuse for another 45-50 minutes. Children who are already sitting can be drunk from a spoon. But if the child refuses to take so "medicine", then you can pour it into the bottle, mixing with your favorite drink (tea, compote).

Babies cooked on the above recipe infusion can be offered 3-4 times a day. In this case, a single dose should be 50-60 ml. Teenager for the treatment of colds can offer to drink at once 70-80 ml (one third of the glass). Usually the treatment with chamomile infusion does not exceed 1 week, but if the disease does not recede, continue treatment, after a short break.

Gargling with chamomile for colds is an effective treatment for adults and children. For her, usually use a decoction of chamomile. Decoction for gargling children we cook at the rate of 3-4 tablespoons. For half a liter of water. We boil the composition for a quarter of an hour on a low heat (it is possible in a water bath), after which we leave to infuse for about 40 minutes. Gargling should be done during the week at least 4-5 times a day, which quickly removes the mucus edema and prevent the spread of infection. But this procedure is suitable only for those children who know how to gargle properly, spitting out the rinse aid in a sink or prepared container. It is not recommended to ingest the used broth.

If the child is small and has not yet learned how to rinse the neck, the mother can use a decoction to wipe the palate and tonsils of the child. To do this, you need to wrap the bandage around your finger and, wetting it in a warm broth, gently treat the inflamed portions of the baby's neck.

Pregnant women with the threat of miscarriage with the permission of a doctor can drink a little chamomile tea, prepared according to the "children's" prescription. But if there is no such threat, you can take 2 tsp for a glass of boiling water. Chamomile. To insist tea is better in the thermos for 1-2 hours.

Gargling of the throat and nose with chamomile broth, cooked according to the "adult" recipe from ½ liter of water and 2-3 tablespoons. Dry raw camomile, is considered a safe procedure for all future mothers. The main thing is that a woman does not have allergies to this useful and fragrant herb.