What should I do if my 2-year-old baby has a cough and a runny nose? Parenting experts introduce

For adults, the symptoms of coughing and runny nose are easy to solve. Some people don't even need to worry about it and it will get better after a while. However, if the condition occurs in a baby around two years old, parents cannot ignore it and must pay great attention to it.

1. What to do if your 2-year-old baby has a cough and runny nose

1. If your baby's nasal discharge changes from clear to yellow, it means that the child's immune system is fighting the virus. Don't rush to use antibiotics for your baby. You can spray some water into your baby's nose. Use a few drops of saline solution to dilute the dry mucus before treating it.

2. You can also use a soft handkerchief to wipe the running nose. Because the baby's skin is very delicate, wiping too much will make the baby feel uncomfortable. So after wiping the nose, you can cover it with a wet towel and then lightly apply a little oil to prevent skin cracking and pain.

3. Use a humidifier to keep your child’s room moist and cool, and pay attention to the hygiene of the humidifier. Or let your child take a bath in a steamy bathroom. When your child is sleeping, give him a pillow to elevate his head so that his snot can flow more smoothly.

4. If the baby coughs severely, parents can try some cough relief methods, such as filling a hot water bottle with hot water at about 40°C, wrapping it with a thin towel, and then applying it to the baby's back near the lungs. This can speed up the expulsion of cold and stop the cough quickly.

2. Diet therapy for baby’s cough and runny nose

1. Grind the mung beans, put the tea leaves into a cloth bag, add a large bowl of water, boil it until half a bowl, remove the tea bag, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, which has the effect of clearing heat.

2. Lily and pear candy: lily, 1 pear, 15g white sugar. Wash the lilies and slice the pears. Mix lily, pear and sugar in a bowl, steam until cooked, let cool and take all at once. Twice a day.

3. Boil garlic and brown sugar in water, which is very effective in treating runny nose.

4. Sugarcane porridge: some fresh sugarcane, 50g polished rice. Add 400ml of polished japonica rice and cook it into porridge. Then wash and chop fresh sugarcane, squeeze out about 150ml of juice, add it to the porridge and serve. Take twice a day, morning and evening.

5. Brown sugar ginger soup: cut 10 grams of ginger into slices, add water and boil, then add 15 grams of brown sugar and drink while hot. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature and can dispel wind and cold. If your baby catches a cold in winter, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup and sweating slightly can help dispel the cold.

6. White radish soup: Slice 250 grams of white radish, add water and boil it, then drink it while it is hot. White radish has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases such as cough and sputum.

3. What medicine should babies take for cough and runny nose?

Most babies' cough and runny nose are suffering from a cold, which is more common in winter and spring. Symptoms include nasal congestion, clear runny nose, a lot of thin white and foamy phlegm, a phlegm sound in the throat, and a thin white tongue coating. The treatment of colds caused by wind and cold is mainly to dispel wind and cold and relieve cough.

Chinese patent medicine: Qingxuan cough-relieving granules, Xiaoqinglong granules, Chaihuyin granules, etc.

Western medicine: Children's acetaminophen sulfonamine, Chengong Zaixin, Xiaobai syrup, etc.

If the baby has a wind-heat cold, such as fear of wind, sweating or no sweating, headache, conjunctival congestion, nasal congestion and purulent nasal discharge, sneezing and coughing, thick white or yellow sputum, thirst and sore throat, red or swollen throat, red tongue, thin white or thin yellow tongue coating, etc., the treatment should be mainly to suppress cough and clear lung heat. The drugs that can be used are:

Chinese patent medicines: Children's Cold Relief Syrup, Hulu Powder, Children's Baotaikang Granules, Children's Heat Clearing Oral Liquid, etc.

Western medicine: Tylenol cold syrup, Pediatric Medications, Motrin syrup, etc.