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Suggest Treatment For Dry Cough In A Child
hi.. my daughter hridhima pal is 2yrs 4mths old weight is more than 16kg.physically she is perfectly fine.she is having a tendency of dry cough so my dr. prescribed to take duolin and beclate inhaler 2 puff twice dailywhenever she suffer from dry cough.she also nebulized 3 times at interval course.now days she is far far better.but recently again she suffered from clod and cough.now my dr.prescribed asthalin along with beclate inhaler 2 puff twice daily.now i am little worried about the usage of asthalin inhaler.i heard that asthalin is stronger than duolin inhaler.plz help me. i wnt to know that asthalin inhaler is safe from my kid? plz reply me at my email YYYY@YYYY thanking you. from- mrs.moumita pal.
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
Dear parent,
Acute Bronchiolitis in children is very common in children less than 6 years. In this condition ,as the child has narrow airways because of their hypersensitive airways,whenever there is trigger causing inflammation of these airways they may block due to mucous.This is the condition which causes dry cough in your child.These children are called early wheezers.If there is strong parental history of asthma,food allergies,hay allergies, there is a chance for the child to develop asthma.Your child seems to respond with asthalin.Asthalin contains salbutamol a component which causes bronchi dilation of airways.Brochodilation helps your child by reaching the air to lung parenchymal and preventing cough. Salbutamol has very less or minimal side effects like tachycardia and tremors mostly with overdose. Duolin is a combination of salbutamol and ipratropium bromide which is used is acute exacerbation of asthma. prevention is always better than cure.If u are able to identify the trigger factor like cold,food allergens,dust, cockroaches ,pet allergens, etc please avoid them.This may help your child prevent the episodes.
Thank you
Acute Bronchiolitis in children is very common in children less than 6 years. In this condition ,as the child has narrow airways because of their hypersensitive airways,whenever there is trigger causing inflammation of these airways they may block due to mucous.This is the condition which causes dry cough in your child.These children are called early wheezers.If there is strong parental history of asthma,food allergies,hay allergies, there is a chance for the child to develop asthma.Your child seems to respond with asthalin.Asthalin contains salbutamol a component which causes bronchi dilation of airways.Brochodilation helps your child by reaching the air to lung parenchymal and preventing cough. Salbutamol has very less or minimal side effects like tachycardia and tremors mostly with overdose. Duolin is a combination of salbutamol and ipratropium bromide which is used is acute exacerbation of asthma. prevention is always better than cure.If u are able to identify the trigger factor like cold,food allergens,dust, cockroaches ,pet allergens, etc please avoid them.This may help your child prevent the episodes.
Thank you
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