"stridor" :ONE OF THE EMERGENCIES IN CHILDREN חרום נשמתי אצל ילדים

pseudo-croup = "stridor"



today i would like to give you-as parents- a very usefull tip for children with stridor.

most stridors are more scaring [mafchid] then really dangerous.

there are however situations in which a stridor can become a real emergency.



it is hard to describe you in all details what a stridor [pseudo-croup] is,but for practical reasons one can describe this as a situation whereby a young child wakes up [mostly in the middle of the night] with shortness of breath and one hears a heavy wheeze[tsiftsuf] while the child is inhaling[noshem=machnis awir],together with a hoarse [tsarud],barking cough.



often the child improves when he is brought to the window/balcony/in fresh air.



a good thing to have at home ,if a child suffers now and then from stridor ,is the following homeopathic mixture:



hepar sulph / aconit / spongia ,all of them D30 ,together in a bottle [30 cc is enough]



give frequently,during an attack,even every 5 to 10 minutes a few drops on the tongue.

often after a few doses the attack abates[mafsik]

for certainity one can give then, a few days before sleep , a few drops.

these can be repeated as often as necessary in case of further attacks.

in fact i have seen [heard from parents]that this combination worked virtually always.



highly recommended that emergency rooms would adopt this practise as well.



in any yeshuv/kibbutz/community: keep a bottle with these drops at hand.



this homeopathic combination is not my own finding,one will find it in most homepathic books.

i just have quite a bit of experience with it.



do realize that a stridor may be a symptom of various conditions/diseases.

[ achild may have swalloed a foreign object [guf zar] ]etc

if one is in doubt take the child to a doctor without waiting.

any case of cyanosis [kichalon],

drooling[harbe rok me-ha-pe],

extreme restlesness,

[extreme ]drowsiness

should be a sign to have the child be examined straight away.



in any case however -if one has these drops available- give frequently a few drops [2drops are enough]even if the child is in the hospital.