The bronchiolite of the infant, quite particular bronchitis

The bronchiolite of the infant, quite particular bronchitis

It is a form of bronchitis of the all small ones, an affection which reaches the all small final bronchi (the brushwood of the bronchial tree), those which are close to pulmonary fabric.

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It is due to syncitiaux respiratory viruses which give a heavy cold initially.

A contagious disease

Often it is the mom who is very caught cold and who infects her baby: these viruses are very contagious.
The bronchiolite also prevails by epidemics at the babies who attend the cribs.

Clinical signs of the bronchiolite of the infant

The disease starts with a heavy cold with a cough; it quickly involves a respiratory embarrassment of the baby and difficulties to feed: feeding-bottle, center, spoon.

It is to better show a baby who is very caught cold and who coughs with a doctor: with the sounding of its lungs, it will be able to make the diagnosis of possible a bronchiolite.

If it has less than 3 months, it is necessary to make it supervise in hospital medium because there is a risk of apnea, i.e. of respiratory stop. Lebébé will be supervised closely during the hospitalization, it will not have particular treatment against the virus since there is not.

On the other hand, of the meetings of kinesitherapy several times per day will be practiced; they are the key of the treatment.

Physiological salt solution in aerosol is also given, it makes it possible to humidify the air routes, sometimes of oxygen is necessary when the baby is very encumbered.

Kinesitherapy

It is fundamental, it allows the drainage of all the mucosities of the small bronchi towards the larger bronchi.
The meetings are impressive: the kinesitherapist puts the little baby on his thighs in sloping position to facilitate the expulsion of secretions, the head towards his knees, on the back or on the belly and it firmly taps its thorax with the hollow of the palm of the hand. It does not make him badly but the baby coughs much, spits, cries.
After a meeting, the baby finds his smile, it is a true pleasure.

Simple gestures when a baby is caught cold

When a baby is caught cold, it is necessary to think of the moucher regularly especially before giving a feeding-bottle so that it can breathe while he drinks: either with a fly baby, or with kleenex or dry cottons twisted, inserted delicately in the nose and withdrawn all gently.
Also take care not too much not to dress baby, that its room is not too hot and that the atmosphere is not too dry.

And especially, do not smoke in the parts where the children live! The tobacco is to be proscribed in the places where live the babies, smoke involving an irritation bronchitis at everyone and in particular children and infants.

A very caught cold person, even the mom or the brothers and sisters, must avoid approaching too close a baby. The mom or the caught cold person who must take care to the baby can carry a mask (sold in pharmacy).

Continuations of a bronchiolite

In general the baby cures without after-effects.
Bronchiolites with repetition can be the shape of entry in the asthmatic disease.

To retain

When you are caught cold, avoid too approaching you the babies. Carry a mask if possible.
If a baby is caught cold, emerges his nose, supervises the good: if it is constrained to breathe, if it drinks its feeding-bottle badly and especially if he has less than 3 months, show with a doctor. If it has a bronchiolite, it will have to be hospitalized a few days to supervise it.
Kinesitherapy is the treatment of the bronchiolite.