How to use propolis tincture for coughing children
Propolis is an amazing beekeeping product with a wide range of medicinal effects, with which you can get rid of a huge number of diseases. It is especially useful and effective in the treatment of childhood diseases, so everyone needs to know how to take propolis tincture for cough, which, as you know, very often occurs in children.
Propolis - what is it?
Propolis is "bee glue" - a unique beekeeping product, which includes several hundred healing ingredients. Its biological composition has not yet been fully studied, but scientists were able to determine that it contains two hundred healing substances - phytocoumarins, flavonoids, essential oils, vitamins, trace elements and fatty acids - this is not a complete list of what is included in its composition, therefore, the spectrum of action of this product is unusually wide.
It must be said that the use of propolis tincture for coughing is due to the fact that the spectrum of action of this drug includes a strong immunological and bronchodilator effect. Propolis tincture has a depressant effect on the cough center, which allows you to stop severe coughing attacks, helps to thin the sputum and remove it from the bronchi and normalizes the patient's breathing. The immunological effect of the drug is expressed in its ability to have an antiviral and bactericidal effect, which facilitates the work of the immune system and thereby makes it much stronger.
PECULIARITIES OF THE APPLICATION OF PROPOLIS IN CHILDREN
Based on all the above information, it is easy to conclude that the treatment of cough with propolis tincture is not only allowed, but also recommended. However, you need to know about some points of its use so that the treatment with this remedy is as safe as possible for the baby.
Apitherapists do not recommend giving it to children who are not yet three years old, but not because it is harmful to them, but because studies have not been conducted on this age group, therefore, to predict how effective it turns out the drug is impossible. However, some parents, according to reviews, give their children (from 1 to 3 years old) propolis tincture to treat coughs, and no side effects are observed. The average dose of the drug depends on the age of the child, so it will be individual for each patient.
Like any other beekeeping product, propolis (respectively, and preparations based on it) have contraindications, the main of which is that it should not be taken by people suffering from individual intolerance to beekeeping products and drugs based on propolis in particular. Before using the drug, it is necessary to conduct an allergy test - you need to apply a little propolis tincture on the child's wrist or elbow, rub it thoroughly and wait a few minutes. The absence of any reaction is evidence that there are no contraindications to this product.
Treatment scheme
As mentioned above, propolis tincture for children with cough is dosed depending on age, that is, the daily dose of its priming in drops will correspond to the number of full years (3 years - 3 drops, 10 years - 10 drops). The tincture can be dissolved in a glass of water at room temperature or juice (it is not recommended to drink it with milk, because it has enveloping properties and can prevent the healing substances of the drug from penetrating into the blood).
The course of treatment is 14 days, after which the body must be given a short break, and repeated again (in order to prevent the recurrence of the disease and consolidate the result).
Separately, it must be said that reviews of propolis tincture for coughing indicate that this drug can also be used for gargling (as an additional therapy). To do this, dissolve 20 drops of tincture in 100 milliliters of warm water and gargle 3-5 times a day (an additional effect of this gargle will be to strengthen the gums and prevent the development of dental diseases).
Propolis is an incredibly useful "gift" of bees, which, if used correctly, can defeat a huge number of diseases, so treating cough in children with it is just one indication from a huge list for its use, therefore, a tincture prepared on its basis , should be in every home.
Evgenia: “I tried this drug quite recently, and initially I treated a cough with it myself. Then I decided to give some medicine to a child who suffers from bronchitis - I started with the minimum dose, and noticed that the cough began to recede, and after the end of the treatment course, we forgot to think aboutthat the child had bronchitis. I recommend.