A newborn baby enters the family, and the view of the world completely changes. A common question asked by young mothers is why their baby wheezes at night. Wheezing occurs in the nose and throat. The reasons for this are varied. This may be a physiologically normal phenomenon and may indicate the onset of the disease.
Doctor listens to baby
What is wheezing
First, let's look at what wheezing is and what it represents. The term “wheezing” refers to the presence of extraneous noise that manifests itself during inhalation and exhalation. It should be noted that listening to wheezing in children is much more difficult than in adults. It is especially difficult to listen to wheezing in children under one year of age, especially if their general condition and body temperature are normal. It is difficult to keep such children in one place for at least one minute, while also breathing calmly at the command of the attending physician. Wheezing is divided according to location: 1. Pulmonary, 2. Bronchial, 3. Nasopharyngeal.
In addition, wheezing can be periodic and constant, crepitating and whistling. Doctors call wheezing that is heard during exhalation as expiratory, and when inhaling as aspiratory.
Cough with wheezing without fever
Often, an increase in temperature without side symptoms causes increased alertness among parents. What to do if the body temperature is within normal limits, but the child has a dry cough with wheezing? First of all, you need to call a doctor. A normal temperature with accompanying symptoms such as coughing and wheezing can be much more dangerous than just an elevated temperature. Such symptoms may indicate the development of a fairly serious disease, in particular pneumonia. Let's look at how pneumonia develops in children step by step:
1. The child is capricious and lethargic. 2. Signs of headache appear, 3. Loss of appetite (infants refuse breast milk). 4. Frequent stools and frequent regurgitation. 5. Shortness of breath. 6. Blueness and swelling in the eye and nose area. 7. Cough with runny nose. 8. Wheezing.
Important! A cough with wheezing in children may indicate the development of a serious illness.
A child has wheezing in the chest, but there is no fever or cough, what is it?
Answers:
Blumenthal Belvedere
run to the doctor.. it could be bronchitis and pneumonia, as a child I had pneumonia without fever.. does he suffocate when exercising?
Nikita qqqqqq
just phlegm, drink lazolvan
Vika Sagareva
Didn't they call the doctor? This could be bronchitis or allergic obstruction. How old is the child?
Valerik
Most likely it's bronchitis
Lena
This happens with bronchitis, but maybe his nose is just not snotty enough, mucus is moving through the nasopharynx, and that’s why he seems to be wheezing. The doctor needs to listen to what kind of wheezing
Olga
We have pneumonia, no fever, but we have sniffles and cough.
Biriuk-Wolf
This means that Mom does not need to experiment, but urgently contact her pediatrician. Pneumonia starts in different ways. Do not delay any medications without consultation... Good luck and health to you and your baby! Do not give any milk - it binds mucus and makes it difficult to clear!
Marinochka Yashina
We have this too, the first time after pneumonia, we wheezed for a week, and the second time when we had a cold, the doctor said it was because of the snot that it accumulated in the bronchi and that’s why we started wheezing.
Anyuta Volkova
definitely see a doctor. This could be pneumonia or bronchitis. There is no cure without antibiotics. Is it dangerous. My child also did not cough or have a fever; she walked with slight wheezing. Later, a sharp temperature in the low forties and pneumonia. I don’t know how to treat, but I can give a little advice: 1. While there is no fever, you can rub it, make garlic and various warming pads, preferably on the chest and back at the same time so that it warms on both sides. 2. Inhalation from potatoes if ASMA, then I don’t know so as not to harm 3. At a temperature, mustard plasters should not be applied 4. At a temperature, rub the child with water and vinegar (thirds under the knees, crook of the arm, neck, forehead) 5. If your child is well behaved feels and his temperature is 38 in the evening, call a doctor at night the temperature is always higher. When it smokes up to 40, it’s almost impossible to beat the syrup. 6. DO NOT CONSULT ADVICE ON THE INTERNET, IT’S BETTER TO GO TO YOUR DOCTOR AGAIN
Treatment of cough with wheezing
Cough with wheezing without fever must be treated correctly. Never self-medicate, but first of all, call a doctor who, based on the collected medical history, will determine the true cause of the disease. To do this, the child needs to undergo a urine, blood and sputum test, and undergo fluorography, which will confirm or refute the doctor’s suspicion of the development of an inflammatory process in the lungs. Wheezing is treated with antibiotics. In addition, the room in which the patient is located must be systematically ventilated and wet cleaned. Remember! Dry indoor air causes coughing even in a healthy child. The diet of a sick child should include fruit drinks, teas, herbal decoctions and dried fruits. In addition to drug treatment, it is also necessary to carry out breathing exercises, which stimulate the development of the lungs.
Safe Reasons
The reasons for this phenomenon are various. Safe ones most often concern a child without fever or other signs of a cold. These include:
Physiological characteristics of the baby’s body
The baby eats well, is gaining weight, does not show anxiety, has not walked in drafts, and has wheezing. This is possible because a newborn baby’s airways are not yet fully developed and they are still quite narrow. This can cause wheezing during feeding or when the baby sleeps. After all the laryngeal cartilages are formed, wheezing will disappear without a trace. This usually happens by one and a half years, but maybe by three. Also, in the first months of life, the baby learns to swallow and often chokes on his saliva, which can cause him to wheeze.
Dry indoor air
The nasal canals in infants are quite narrow, so dust quickly accumulates in the nasopharynx. The main reason for this is dry air. It’s a paradox, but caring and loving parents are most often to blame for this. Taking care that the child does not get sick, they mistakenly believe that closing the windows tightly, not ventilating and heating the room where the child is, is the right way to protect him from hypothermia and colds. But pediatricians recommend not to forget about regular 10-minute ventilation of the room in which the newborn is mainly located, as well as the need to periodically humidify the air with special humidifiers or at least place some container with cold water in the room or hang wet towels on the heating radiator. According to Dr. E. Komarovsky, the optimal conditions for a newborn can be considered an air temperature in the room of 18-22 ° C and a humidity of 40-60%;
Dust accumulation
Mothers should definitely do regular wet cleaning of their newborn’s room to prevent dust from accumulating, and then they will not be bothered by wheezing in the baby. It is also advisable not to get carried away with soft toys, since they tend to accumulate dust.
Unclean spout
Since the nose is a filter for the air we breathe, mucus periodically accumulates in the nasal passage, which, when dried, forms dry crusts, which provokes wheezing when breathing in infants. This also happens in adults, only infants cannot yet blow their nose and clear their nose on their own. Therefore, you need to remove crusts and mucus from the baby’s nose every day.
At the pharmacy you need to buy special moisturizing drops or regular saline, drop a drop into each nasal passage of the child and then carefully remove the “cause of inconvenience” with a cotton swab.
Lack of physical activity in the child
If the baby is always in a lying position, is not picked up or played with, then there is a risk of “stagnation” and swelling in the lungs and respiratory tract, which leads to even more wheezing. This phenomenon is often observed among orphanage children, since nannies and teachers do not have enough hands and time to pay attention to all the children.
Contaminated air
Wheezing and the appearance of mucus in an infant can be caused by polluted air, which contains cigarette smoke or exhaust fumes, so babies should be carefully protected from such exposure.
For all of the above-described wheezing, medical and medicinal intervention is not required, but it is necessary to monitor the child’s general well-being. With a normal body temperature of up to 37 degrees, good appetite and restful sleep, there is no reason to worry, but during your next scheduled visit to the clinic, be sure to pay this “little detail” to the pediatrician’s attention so that he can rule out any diseases.
Traditional medicine for the treatment of cough with wheezing without fever
If the doctor’s suspicion of pneumonia is not confirmed, then you can get rid of a cough with wheezing using folk remedies. They will help you: honey with milk, herbal decoctions, rubbing, massage, breathing exercises, inhalation. Inhalation sessions on potato peelings or pine buds are excellent for treatment. Also, traditional medicine suggests brewing pine buds in milk at the rate of 1 tbsp. kidneys per 1 liter of milk. You need to take this medicinal decoction every 2 hours, 1 tablespoon. Children love the taste of eggnog and eat it with pleasure. True, when a child is a little sick, even such a delicacy is not entirely to their taste. You need to prepare eggnog according to the following recipe: mix a tablespoon of honey with butter and add 2 yolks. Grind until white and give the patient 1 tbsp before meals.
Attention! If a child is allergic to honey or eggs, then preparing eggnog for him is strictly contraindicated.
Compresses
If a child has a cough with wheezing, difficulty breathing, and the temperature is within normal limits, then compresses can be used to alleviate his condition.
The most convenient and simplest type of compress is potato. Boil the peeled potatoes in water without salt and mash thoroughly with a mortar. Place the potato mixture in a plastic bag and wrap in several layers of soft towel. The compress should be warm, but under no circumstances hot. Place on baby's chest and hold for 1 hour. From time to time, adjust the temperature of the compress by unrolling the towel. It is recommended to apply this compress at night.
Mustard-honey compress flatbread is excellent for coughs with wheezing. Mix honey with mustard powder, add a little vegetable oil and knead the flatbread with flour until it has a soft consistency. Place the cake on the baby's chest, cover it with plastic and wrap it with a gauze diaper. With such a compress, the child can sleep until the morning.
Attention! If you are allergic to honey, a mustard-honey compress is strictly contraindicated.
When to see a doctor
If you suspect that wheezing when breathing in a newborn is associated with an illness, you should consult a doctor. Most often, this condition is accompanied by a number of symptoms. It is important to pay attention to all manifestations in time, to see how the child feels.
ARVI disease
With colds, the child grunts in his sleep. There is copious mucus discharge. It gets into the lungs and respiratory tract, interferes with normal breathing, and the nose begins to whistle. There are wheezing in the throat and lungs. ARVI is accompanied by a number of symptoms:
- cough;
- restless sleep;
- elevated temperature;
- decreased appetite;
- anxiety.
The viral infection spreads quickly, so do not delay visiting the doctor. If a cold is suspected, a doctor is called to your home on the same day. Failure to treat it can lead to complications. Serious illnesses develop:
- infection of internal organs;
- pneumonia;
- obstructive bronchitis.
During a cold, the doctor tries to cure the child using physiotherapy. In severe cases, prescribes antibiotics.
Pathologies
Wheezing in newborns occurs due to congenital and acquired pathologies. In such cases, grunting is regarded as a symptom. Pathological processes include:
- underdeveloped respiratory system;
- lobar pneumonia;
- bronchial asthma;
- acute bronchitis;
- emphysema;
- neoplasm;
- allergic rhinitis;
- Quincke's edema;
- irregular nasal septum;
- tracheal occlusion;
- narrowing of the bronchi during breathing.
Some of the above conditions are accompanied by elevated temperature. Doctors diagnose congenital pathologies in the first three months of life. If you suspect an illness, you should consult a doctor immediately. Newborns have a weak immune system that cannot fight off infection on its own.
Important! Self-medication can aggravate the situation; any medications should be prescribed by a doctor.
Doctor listening to baby
Other reasons
In infants with congenital heart defects, wheezing in the chest is common. This is one of the leading symptoms. The disease is most often diagnosed in the maternity hospital and during regular pediatric examinations.
If the heart defect is not very serious, then treatment will not be required. Some children undergo heart surgery. The decision is made by a pediatric cardiologist after a thorough examination of the baby. If possible, surgical treatment is postponed to an older age.
When a newborn wheezes in his sleep, it causes a lot of worry. Parents worry about the baby’s health and his future. Most often, the reason lies in the living conditions of the baby. It is worth consulting a doctor, he will tell you the exact cause of this symptom. The baby wheezes when he breathes more often for physiological reasons.
Physiotherapy
For a dry cough with wheezing, when sputum is difficult to separate, doctors recommend physical exercise. Mostly expectoration exercises are performed upside down. If we are talking about infants, then you can take him by the legs and lightly shake him upside down. After this, place the child on the mattress and massage the back and chest with tapping movements of the fingers. Then spread your arms to the sides and bring them together on your chest. Older children, especially when there is no fever and they are active, enjoy doing the “walking on their hands” exercise. To do this, lift the baby's legs with your hands and invite the baby to walk on his hands on the rug. If there is a horizontal bar in the house, you can also invite the baby to hang upside down on it.
