Symptoms of throat burns in infants

Update Date: 2023-11-19 Source: Network

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After children's throat scald, local edema will occur quickly, which can reach the peak within 4-8 hours, accompanied by poor breathing, wheezing, hoarseness and crying. In severe cases, it will cause fever, even edema throughout the throat and block the airway, leading to asphyxia and death. Let's talk about the symptoms of a baby's throat scald.

Symptoms of throat burns in infants

1. Children are impatient and feel thirsty when playing outside. When they go home, they pour out boiling water and drink it, or take a freshly brewed teapot and suck it; When eating, I suddenly drink the vegetable soup with hot oil but no steam escaping; Eat dumplings too quickly paste in the throat and so on. These conditions are common in preschool children.

2、 Children are childish and difficult to distinguish liquid medicine. If there are high concentration corrosive liquids such as concentrated acid, strong alkali, alcohol and chlorine liquid in the home, they are often taken by children by mistake, or the solution gasification laboratory is often inhaled when playing, which will cause throat burns. These are common in children aged 2-4.

3、 After children's throat scald, local edema will occur quickly, which can reach the peak within 4-8 hours, accompanied by poor breathing, wheezing, hoarseness and crying. In severe cases, it will cause fever, even edema throughout the throat and block the airway, leading to asphyxia and death.

matters needing attention

In case of throat burns, the mild can be cured at home. First, do not give the child hard, hot food, but soft, cold food, pay attention to rest, avoid crying; Second, the use of traditional Chinese medicine Folium Isatidis, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, mint, Coptis, Platycodon grandiflorum, licorice 10 grams each, fried water, so that children frequently swallow. Patients with severe pharyngeal and laryngeal edema, who have obviously affected breathing, or who mistakenly take toxic liquid and cause toxic reaction at the same time, should be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately.