How to treat bronchitis during lactation

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchial mucosa leading to a narrowing of their lumen, resulting in difficulty breathing and a cough with phlegm appears. It is impossible for the breastfeeding woman to take most of the medications that treat bronchitis, so basically you will have to be treated with folk remedies. So how to treat bronchitis during lactation?

Drinking fluid

It is recommended to drink chicken broth with bronchitis. It has been proven that it helps to remove phlegm, purifies the bronchi and soothes the throat, which is irritated. In general, it is worth using more liquid in any kind and moisten the room. You can brew pectoral fees, which consist of licorice, wild rosemary, chamomile, calendula, peppermint. Will help inhalation over a soda solution or broth from a potato peel, an iodine grid on a thorax, mukaltin.

Expectorants approved during lactation

In order to reduce cough during bronchitis during lactation, it is worth taking expectorants that dilute sputum, for example, Lazolvan, which will clear the bronchi and restore their former functions. Lazolvan is better for using through the nebulizer, that is, to inhale the vapor through a certain apparatus. It is worth remembering that drugs in which the main active substance - bromhexine, lactating, as well as pregnant women are categorically contraindicated. With bronchitis, breast-feeding women can be helped by herbal preparations, which are based on the root of licorice, ivy, anise, plantain, thyme, thyme and other plant components that contribute to the discharge of sputum from the bronchi, for example, the "Thoracic Elixir"40 cap. Several times a day. You can use "Gedelix", "Bronchicum", the drug "DOCTOR MOM."

Antibiotics

In any case, during bronchitis requires antibiotics, it is worth saying that there are antibiotics that are compatible with lactation. These include semi-synthetic penicillins, macrolides, cephalosporins. When you visit a doctor, it is necessary to say that you are a nursing mother, then he will be able to choose the safest antibiotic.

Folk remedies

You can try the following folk remedies for bronchitis that can be used during lactation without harming the child:

• milk, birch juice;
• figs;
• honey, as well as black radish;Onion bulb with milk and honey;
• lemon and honey.

Breastfeeding mum, who has contracted bronchitis, it is necessary to include a liquid porridge in the milk of the oatmeal, a liquid mashed potatoes with a lot of milk, a grated radish, which is dressed with sour cream. Drink recommended oats and barley broth with the addition of almond powder and chicory root. Such a drink is taken as simple tea, you can add a little hot melted milk.

With a debilitating cough during bronchitis, you can drink a mixture of hot milk and mineral alkaline water, a ratio of 1: 1.With a strong cough, the broth of the fig in milk will help. You can prepare a mixture of birch sap and milk, add a little starch or flour. Instead of simple tea, drink an infusion of strawberries or strawberries.

Boiled honey and turnip juice will help with bronchitis. Just remember that unboiled honey can further strengthen the cough. Take one medium black radish and grate it on the grater, squeeze the juice. Mix this juice with 5 grams of honey. Take 5 ml three times a day.

You can eat onion, which is boiled in milk and mixed with a small amount of honey.

You can also boil the lemon for 10 minutes. On low heat. Cut it into two halves and squeeze juice well. Pour it into a glass, add 30 grams of glycerin, stir well. Then add the honey until the glass is filled. Before using this product, it should be thoroughly shaken. With a strong cough used 5 ml 4 times a day, when the cough begins to pass, the number of receptions can be reduced. Such a tool perfectly helps to treat bronchitis in nursing women, it can help and young children.

It is worth remembering that at the first symptoms of bronchitis you need to see a doctor, he will choose the safest drugs during lactation.