Many parents and friends may encounter such a situation, when the child has a cough, runny nose phenomenon, eat a lot of cold medicine still does not work. Experts said that children's cold generally 7-10 days to heal, if more than this time, it should be suspected allergic rhinitis mischief.
More than seven days or cured cold allergic rhinitis
In fact, cold medicine is called "acute rhinitis", mainly caused by a virus. Mostly because the body defenses are weakened, more common in children with a cold constitution thin, poor immunity of children, they tend to suffer from viral infections, and cold symptoms, children with colds also susceptible to environmental factors, such as poor indoor ventilation, air conditioning was too big, crowded, climate change induced. While children accompanied by fatigue, loss of appetite, fever and other symptoms, which requires parents to carefully observe and identify.
Cold, namely acute rhinitis, such as the correct diagnosis and aggressive treatment of most patients 7-10 days after recovery. As sicker, headache is more obvious, and the emergence of a large number of purulent nasal discharge, facial pain, phlegm, cough, ear swelling and that is the development of acute sinusitis.
If more than 7-10 days, children are still "nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing," and other symptoms can no longer thought it was cold, but should consider allergic rhinitis.
Allergic rhinitis how to detect?
This time is allergic disease predilection season, more dust in the air, animal dander, all kinds of pollen, dust mites, dust, large increase, especially in spring, flowers, trees, grasses are beginning to open, many children go after They are prone to allergies, causing allergic diseases.
Specific symptoms of coughing, sneezing, like rubbing the eyes and nose, runny nose, etc., involved in the disease atopic dermatitis, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic cough, allergic rhinitis and asthma, are generally aged 3-5 year old. When a child has allergic rhinitis, often stuffy nose, nasal itching, sneezing, it is worth noting that when these symptoms in the morning or when temperature changes more common in children with allergic rhinitis accompanied by family history.
There are always some children nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, but because it is not able to express, so parents ignore how to find children with allergic rhinitis. Experts suggest that children who show these cases should attract the attention of parents: ① cold frequent attacks, and the last is not good, the next began, the day nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing. Parents should be alert to these situations. ② young age children, the elderly are like as often cough, sputum, hoarseness, but also pay attention to these cases. Children without asthma and acute infections, which often do not cough, sputum, because of postnasal drip caused by rhinitis. ③ mouth breathing during sleep, the "allergic appearance" that children continue to rub the nose with a finger or palm front, or some people because of nasal itching, do crooked mouth, nose, etc. towering strange movements.
