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1. From what age do you earliest use medications for dry cough in children?
Diseases involving dry spastic cough can occur even in early infancy, which is one of the reasons requiring hospital treatment. In these cases, it is appropriate to conduct inhalations with bronchodilators and administer corticosteroids. Generally speaking, medications are divided into those that affect the cause, and others that relieve symptoms, in this case the cough.
2. How do you decide what form the prescribed medication should be - tablets or syrup?
The use of one form of medication or another is determined by the child's age. In infancy and early childhood, syrup forms are preferable due to more convenient dosing, easier administration, and better taste. Tablets that can be sucked or chewed are allowed, such as homeopathic products and vitamins, in the form of gummy "candies".
3. How do you recommend giving tablets to young children?
Crushed and dissolved in liquid.
4. What is important to you when choosing a dry cough medication for children?
There is no universal treatment; it is determined by the cause and the level of respiratory tract involvement, and according to the specific case - herbal syrups, inhalations, antiallergic drugs, bronchodilators, corticosteroids.
5. Is it important that some dry cough medications do not suppress breathing?
The use of medications that suppress the respiratory center is only allowed in cases of dry, irritating, non-productive cough.
6. Are you interested in the onset of action?
There are no instantly acting medications. Most cough treatment agents relieve and reduce symptoms after a certain number of doses.
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