What should I do if my child has a cough?

If a baby is feeling unwell, it will affect his physical development and make parents feel very uncomfortable. For example, if a common cold is not properly treated, the baby will have symptoms of coughing and sputum. Since the baby is very young, it is very difficult to take medicine, and infusion will bring certain pain to the baby. So what should I do if my child coughs?

First, what should we do if a child has a cough? We must always pay attention to the baby's physical condition. Generally, if the condition is not serious, it is not recommended to give the baby injections or medications. The problem of the baby's cough and phlegm can often be adjusted through some daily diet. You can use brown sugar and dates to make soup for your children to drink, which is very effective. Use white radish and honey to cook soup. The soup is sweet and children love it. This is also a method to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. Snow pear soup. I think every family in the north has made snow pear soup to relieve phlegm and cough. Soy milk and rock sugar. Drinking a cup of soy milk with rock sugar on an empty stomach every morning can also effectively reduce phlegm and relieve cough. I remember when I was a child, I boiled corn husks in water and drank it, which was quite effective. At least it worked for me. Tremella soup. Tremella has the effect of relieving cough and removing phlegm. It is a good choice to make porridge for children by adding rock sugar.

Second, you can first cough up the baby's phlegm, or give the coughing baby cough suppressants and expectorants, or do a nebulization treatment. In daily care, let your baby drink more water and wear loose and comfortable clothes so as not to affect the baby's breathing. A comfortable environment should be created for the baby at home and the room should be well ventilated. Parents can clasp their hands and pat the child's back from bottom to top and from outside to inside, because this is the direction of the child's lung lobes and bronchi, which can help the child to clear up phlegm. Mothers can let their children lie on their forearms and use their other hands to pat them. When patting the back, you need to use more force. Too light a force will not have much effect. You must be extra careful when caring for a coughing baby at night to prevent sputum from blocking the respiratory tract and affecting the baby's normal breathing.

What should you do if your child has a cough? When your baby has a cough and has phlegm, parents should give the baby more warm boiled water. Adequate water can effectively help the baby dilute the phlegm and facilitate coughing up the phlegm. The diet should also be as light as possible. Breastfeeding mothers should also pay attention to their diet, drink plenty of water, and eat less irritating foods, because these will be passed to the baby through breast milk.