Without taking medicine or injections, allergic babies will naturally become desensitized (3)

Let me talk about how to take care of some specific allergic symptoms in my children for your reference.

Faced with a baby’s rash.

I have already said a lot before. Once a rash occurs, take a bath with moxa leaf water, then absorb the water and apply it with olive oil. If the rash is on the folds, apply olive oil and then sprinkle some pine pollen to keep it dry.

Second, face the baby’s nasal congestion.

Before my baby was desensitized, he would have a stuffy nose as soon as he went to sleep, and he would not sleep well due to snorting. I bought sea salt water and nasal aspirator from the drug store. However, the spray of sea salt water is very cold and powerful, and the child resists it. The nasal aspirator has never been used at all. In the end, I used my own method: soak a little salt water, hold the child in my arms, half-tilt the head, dip a cotton swab in warm salt water and drip it into the nose. The child resisted the drip, so I applied the cotton swab back and forth on the outside of the two nostrils, so that some of the salt water would seep into the nostrils, and soon boogers would usually fall out of the nose. I also tried plain warm boiled water, but I don’t know if it has a psychological effect, but the effect is not as good as salted boiled water.

For cold and stuffy nose, use scallion water. In order to have enough scallions, when we make dumpling fillings, we mince scallions and dry the scallions in the sun. As long as the child catches a cold and has a stuffy nose, stew scallion water, then add some rock sugar to soak in milk and drink it, the effect will be immediate. But now the child refuses to eat.

Now I sometimes use cooling oil to let him smell it, and the child is more accepting of it, or mustard (it works, but the child doesn't like to smell it).

Third, care for babies with colds.

Don’t rush to treat a cold. Once you catch a cold, you must be mentally prepared for more than 7 days. As long as it can be controlled so that it does not develop too seriously, you can generally find the pattern for each child. My child's symptoms usually get worse in 1-3 days and begin to lessen after the 4th day. Once you have thick green nasal discharge, your cold is almost gone. A cold in an allergic baby can easily cause asthma and pneumonia, so it is important to control the development of the cold. To control the severity of a cold, the sooner you intervene, the better.

1. Viral: Usually there are no symptoms such as runny nose, but the person will have a fever or weakness immediately. In this case, it is better to intervene as soon as possible with Houttuynia cordata, Isatis root, and Chinese patent medicines used to reduce colds in children. (My child refuses to take Chinese patent medicines. Although the hospital prescribes them every time, he has never taken them. I can’t bear to forcefully force him to take them. ). As long as the child is wilting, I usually stay away from work and hold the child all day long to give him enough rest. In the early stage of a cold, going to the hospital too frequently will increase the child's symptoms. It is the last word to allow the child to get enough rest. Then I coaxed him to drink lightly salted water. When my child was young, his sense of taste was weak and he couldn't feel even a little bit of salty taste. When he got older, I would coax him to drink by counting the number of "gu dong" sounds, as described in the previous article. The child is now very tolerant of salt water. In the early stages of a cold, it is imperative to drink more water and get more rest.

2. Cold: If a child catches a cold, it is easy to see water flowing from the nose. At this time, the child's energy is usually still as good, but the mother should pay attention. The condition will definitely develop in the next two or three days. At this time, adults can intervene by drinking ginger soup. Children will definitely not be able to stand the taste of ginger, so I use perilla instead. Perilla is basically tasteless, so obedient children can actually drink it directly without much problem. We soaked it in milk powder. When you have time, use moxa leaf water or perilla water to soak your child's feet.

Moxibustion is a very good intervention method, but many children cannot stand the smell of moxa smoke. I will give moxibustion to my child while he is taking a nap. The child will basically not resist when he is sleeping deeply, and moxibustion will bring him a sense of comfort. Once the moxa is smoked, the child's breathing will be smoother and his sleep will be deeper. If mothers are still afraid that the smell of smoke will make their children uncomfortable, they can also choose smokeless moxa sticks, but I prefer the smoked moxa sticks, which have a more smoke-like feeling.

Many people think that moxibustion is difficult, mainly because it is difficult to select the acupoints. We can't be experts in traditional Chinese medicine, so we just need to understand some general areas that are suitable for children. A moxa box on Taobao costs more than ten yuan, plus 4 moxa sticks, and a large moxa smoke area can basically be covered as long as the approximate location of the acupuncture points is known. Moxa smoke is generally smoked from head to toe, which is less likely to cause inflammation. This is how I select the acupoints: first, Lumen on the top of the head, then Feishu on the back, then the belly button, then Zusanli, and finally to the soles of the feet. When using moxibustion, pad your hands to prevent the child from getting too hot.

In this way, after early intervention, the child's cold will basically not develop too seriously.

However, every baby has a different constitution and situation, so mothers cannot take it lightly and must prepare antipyretics and a thermometer. If your condition worsens, be prepared to seek medical attention at any time.

In addition, once a child is hospitalized, the hospital will strictly use various indicators to judge whether he can be discharged. My child has been admitted to the hospital twice, and was recommended to stay in the hospital for about 8 days. In fact, at my request, I was discharged from the hospital after 3 and 4 days. This is just my personal understanding. I feel that once the condition is under control, the child can be given a chance to recover on his own later.

In addition, the mother should pay more attention to the medicine prescribed by the doctor after the baby takes it. For example, when we prescribed Aichang at Xinhua Hospital, the child became too weak to move as soon as he ate the whole product. Later I checked online that this medicine has very serious side effects. Next time I go to the hospital, I will definitely refuse the doctor’s prescription for this medicine.

Fourth, face asthma.

1. Avoid factors that cause asthma. As mentioned in the previous articles, although allergens can now be detected, mothers still have to pay more attention to what their children are allergic to. For example, my children are prone to asthma as long as they stay in smoking places (both times were for this reason). So when we go to a restaurant to eat, we will also observe the environment of the restaurant. If someone is smoking, we must leave immediately.

2. During the atomization process, the baby’s physical and mental fears must be taken into consideration. As long as you have asthma, nebulization is a must-prescribe item by the doctor. Nebulization is not painful or itchy, but it can be a very scary thing for children. Therefore, parents should not let their asthmatic children cry and fuss. Doctors may say that crying is more effective. Normally, a child crying can increase lung capacity, but if a sick child cries, it will cause great harm to the body and mind. Parents can be more patient and wait for their children to fall asleep before nebulizing.

3. I still want to talk about the benefits of drinking lightly salted water, although many parents will ignore it or not believe it. But my children and I are the deep beneficiaries.

Five, facing pneumonia.

Pneumonia is not terrible. If you go to the hospital and get out of the water in 1-2 days, the child can usually control the condition. Therefore, it is recommended that mothers should not over-treat a cold in the early stages because of fear of pneumonia. Of course this is just my opinion. Because my child had pneumonia twice, the first time I refused the doctor’s request for water treatment and instead treated it with medicine. The doctor at Xinhua Hospital must give me a prescription. The doctor from the provincial child insurance department said in a consultative tone that if I don’t want to give him a prescription, I would add another medicine (red granules) on top of azithromycin. The child subsequently recovered successfully.

For the second time, the child was hospitalized immediately because his high fever aggravated his cough. The doctor recommended 8 days, and we stayed there for 4 days, and then we were discharged with prescriptions. But in fact, I stopped taking anti-inflammatory drugs after I was discharged from the hospital.

Sixth, enhance physical fitness.

I always feel that it is crucial for children to naturally desensitize themselves and enhance their physical fitness. My child was born with a bad constitution and could only supplement it the day after tomorrow.

1. Extend the breastfeeding time. (Dabao is weaned at 10 months and Xiaobao is 16 months old)

2. Extend the time of eating formula milk powder. (Dabao won’t eat it when he is 2 and a half years old, but Xiaobao is still eating it when he is 4 years old)

3. Reject hormone eggs. Eggs are something every child must eat every day. I am lucky to have a friend who supplies hormone-free eggs for a long time.

4. Drink homemade yogurt every day. Almost every child likes to drink yogurt, and mothers find it hassle-free and delicious to buy yogurt in the supermarket. However, there are basically only 3-5 types of bacteria in supermarket yogurt, and many of them cannot survive under stomach acid. Supermarket yogurt has various flavors and other additives. I always use compound bacterial powder (13 kinds of bacteria) to make yogurt, and now Xiaobao can make it himself. Two packets of fresh milk and one packet of powder are left in the yogurt machine overnight and can be eaten the next day. You can also add fruits, raisins, etc. Sometimes eating yogurt from the supermarket will cause diarrhea. After eating homemade yogurt, the child's poop will be very slippery.

5. Insist on eating cod liver oil. Community hospitals can provide cod liver oil every month. Many mothers do not allow their children to drink night milk or eat sweets, but their children still have tooth decay. My eldest daughter and little one love to eat sweets and often take night milk, but they don’t have any cavities. Just observe the children you play with. Those who have tooth decay may not necessarily be eating too much sugar, but they must not be taking cod liver oil for a long time.

6. Eat colostrum appropriately. In developed countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, the country provides free colostrum to children before the age of 14. Their children are taken out at night in the summer, naked or wearing very small clothes, and can enter and exit the air-conditioned supermarket room without any pressure, unlike us who wrap up their children well.

I was influenced by them during my trip and started letting my children take New Zealand bovine colostrum after I came back. Now after half a year, the child sleeps very well, and the fever went away on its own overnight after catching two colds. Since I started taking colostrum, I haven’t taken any medicine for illness. A bottle of colostrum costs more than 100 yuan, and it says to take 2-4 pills a day. We only take one pill a day, and occasionally forget to take it, so we haven’t finished the two bottles yet. It may also be due to the colostrum, or it may be due to the fact that his physique has strengthened as he grows up. The baby is very good at eating and playing, and he has grown taller. Anyway, this summer, my child was swept away by my quilt in the air-conditioned room, and he woke up from the cold without catching a cold. You can’t brag about your kids, so I’ll stop there. Ha ha.

The above are some of my experiences in caring for babies with allergies, and I would like to share them with you. I hope your children can be desensitized as soon as possible like mine, so that we don’t have to work so hard in the process of raising children.

My views only represent some of my experiences as a mother and do not represent medical theory. Just talking about my experience does not count as knowledge sharing. It would be a great honor if you could learn from it!