Propolis - bee glue, which they lubricate the walls of the hive, and also close the cracks. This bitter substance has miraculous properties - antiviral, antifungal immunomodulating.
Propolis tincture for children is widely used in folk medicine. But doctors can also recommend it for use against colds, to improve immunity, as well as gastritis and many other chronic diseases, such as tonsillitis.
Treatment of children with propolis in the form of beads, which can be purchased at the pharmacy or at the beekeepers, helps with diseases of the throat, pain in the ears, and also when the baby is suffering from a runny nose. Doctors warn that there is an individual intolerance to propolis, as well as other products of beekeeping. To determine if there is an allergy in a child, it is enough to apply one or two drops of tincture to the elbow and leave it until morning. If the rash does not manifest, then you can start treatment.
Propolis for children is often used in the form of alcohol tincture. But you need to understand that dosage is very important here. It is generally accepted that the proportion is one drop of tincture for one year of the baby's life. Also proved to be effective as a means to increase immunity to children propolis in the form of alcohol-aqueous tincture. Propolis with milk for children given with bronchial asthma, angina, a common cold. It can be used in parallel with antibiotics, but not at the same time, i.e. with a break in an hour or two.
It is also useful and prevention of catarrhal diseases with the help of propolis tincture to children. It should be conducted no more than once every six months, the course can reach ten days, but a week will be enough.
Can propolis be given to children?
Doctors recommend treatment with propolis of children aged no less than three years. But this recommendation concerns only the application inside. External can be used at your discretion. Tincture lubricates the feet, if a fungus is found, the wounds and abrasions are treated. Magic healing and disinfecting effect will not keep you waiting. After a few days, improvements will be noticeable and tangible.
Tincture of propolis for children brings the greatest benefit in the composition of milk. It is enough a couple of drops of warm milk diluted in a glass or a table spoon. If a child is given a drink at night, then by morning he will feel much better, not to mention that even bronchial asthma and many other chronic diseases are treated in this way.
Propolis tincture - application for children
- For healing and disinfection of wounds and abrasions, lubricate the affected area with an alcohol-water tincture. It also helps with various forms of fungal diseases.
- With a sore throat and toothache, you need to chew a small ball of propolis.
- A few drops in warm milk dilute and give a drink before going to bed. Helps with various forms of bronchitis, tonsillitis, as well as from the dysbacteriosis of intestinal diseases.
- Lubricate with a tampon soaked in water tincture of propolis gum with stomatitis and other dental diseases.
- For the treatment of conjunctivitis and otitis, drip 2 drops in each ear or in each eye with a warm water propolis tincture.
- Treatment of a common cold in children with water propolis is very effective, subject to systematic application (up to 4 times a day).