| When children are affected with croup, they lose their | | | | boiling a pan of water on a stove in a corner of a |
| usual cheerfulness and become irritated. There is a | | | | small room, adding a few drops of eucalyptus or |
| high pitched cracking noise with the intake of each | | | | menthol oil. This will moisten the air and help the child to |
| breath. Some of them develop barking cough. They | | | | breathe more easily. In case of a older child, fill a kettle |
| complain of a slight obtuse pain in the wind- pipe | | | | with sprout, half full of hot water, adding a little oil of |
| somewhat below its orifice. Slight swelling is formed on | | | | eucalyptus. The child should be made to inhalr steam |
| the outer side of the throat opposite the same place. It | | | | ensuing from this water. This simple remedy helps to |
| aches a little when pressed with a finger. The face | | | | open the wind-pipes and relieve the congestion. |
| seems red and looks puffed up. There is fever with | | | | If the above treatment is faithfully carried out, the fever |
| hard and very quick pulse. The breathing becomes | | | | will run its course without any trouble and complication |
| difficult, frequent and shorter. Some children are obliged | | | | or serious after- effects. The child can then be placed |
| to remain in bed, while others feel better at times and | | | | on an all fruit diet for few days. He may eat fresh juicy |
| are able to walk about. Their voice becomes hoarse | | | | fruits like apple, mango, pineapple, papaya, grapes, pear, |
| and sharp. | | | | peach, and melon during this period. Thereafter he may |
| The use of antitoxin for the treatment of this disaese | | | | be allowed to gradually adopt a well-balanced diet, |
| may apparently prove successful, but it is harmful in | | | | according to his age. The emphasis should be on |
| the long run. The disease can be prevented by | | | | whole grain cereals, raw or lightly-cooked vegetables |
| following a proper diet and avoidance of indigestion | | | | or fresh fruits. |
| and constipation. | | | | An excellent home remedy for croup is the use of |
| The real treatment for this disease, as with all other | | | | garlic. Chewing a clove of garlic dissolves the |
| fevers, is avoidance of solid foods for first few days | | | | membranes, reduces temperature and relieves the |
| of the treatment. The child-patient should be given only | | | | patient. About 15 gms. of garlic can be used in this way |
| orange juice and water in small quantities so long as | | | | after every three or four hours for a week. After the |
| the fever lasts. | | | | membrane disappears , the same quantity of garlic |
| The child with croup should be kept in bed and isolated | | | | should be chewed daily. The croup patient has no |
| from others. Cold-packs applied, after every two | | | | sense of taste or smell and merely finds the garlic hot. |
| hours, to the throat will be effective. | | | | Onion is another effective home remedy for croup. |
| If the child's breathing becomes difficult and he seems | | | | Onions should be roasted on hot ashes and juice |
| to be struggling to get his breath, immediate action | | | | extracted from them. This juice should be taken by the |
| should be taken to provide warm, moist, air to restore | | | | patient in doses of half a teaspoon mixed with equal |
| the normal himidity of the room. This can be done by | | | | quantity of honey three times daily. |