What should parents do if they find their baby has a gastrointestinal cold?

Gastrointestinal colds are common in babies. At this time, mothers should pay attention to correct care and solutions, keep the indoor environment ventilated, pay attention to helping children add or remove clothes, give babies more water during the illness, and prepare nutritious and digestible food for them.

Home care strategies

1. Mothers should pay attention to keeping fresh air in the room and add or remove clothes for the baby in time when the climate changes.

2. If your baby sweats a lot after taking antipyretics, you should change the wet clothes in time after each sweating to avoid catching a cold again and worsening the condition.

3. During the fever period, give your baby more boiled water, easily digestible food, and light taste. Avoid spicy food, cold drinks, greasy food, and fried food. It is normal for babies to have a decreased appetite during illness. Mommy should not be anxious, let alone force them to eat. Giving the child's gastrointestinal tract some rest time will help the body recover as soon as possible.

4. Once the baby vomits, the mother should not panic. Let the baby lie on his side. For older babies, the baby can be placed in a prone position. This will help the vomit to flow out, keep the airway open, and avoid vomitus from being inhaled into the trachea, causing suffocation and endangering life.

5. If a family member or childcare institution has a cold, it is best not to have close contact with the child to avoid infecting the child.

Home treatment strategies

1. For babies suffering from gastrointestinal colds, in addition to taking medicines to treat colds, they should also take some Chinese medicines that can help digestion and relieve constipation, such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills, Jiawei Baohe Pills, Zhupo Houzao Powder, etc.

2. If the baby has abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and severe vomiting, you can first take Simotang oral liquid to stop vomiting and digestion, and then take other medicines about half an hour later. This will have a better effect.

3. Because the cold causes gastrointestinal digestive enzyme secretion disorders, decreased digestive function, and gastrointestinal cramps, the baby will experience abdominal pain and vomiting. The baby can be given live bacteria preparations, which are beneficial to the establishment of normal flora in the baby's gastrointestinal tract.