What should I do if my child coughs and has yellow phlegm and yellow nasal discharge?

When your child has a cough and has yellow phlegm, do not let him or her eat spicy or sweet foods, as these foods will only aggravate the symptoms of the cough. Some parents may have the habit of letting their children eat rock sugar and snow pear when their children cough. In order to make the food taste better, they will add a lot of rock sugar when making it. This practice is incorrect. Too much sugar will make the cough worse. Here we will briefly introduce some methods for dealing with children's cough with yellow phlegm.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children have a "pure yang body" and a hot constitution, so most of the colds children catch are lung heat colds. The clinical manifestations of lung heat mainly include fever, repeated coughing, yellow and thick phlegm, thick yellow tongue coating, sore throat, etc. Some children also have symptoms such as bad breath, dry stools, and yellow urine. The treatment of lung heat mainly focuses on clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma. Eating foods such as lily, tremella, grapefruit, etc. can invigorate qi, clear intestines, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

If a child coughs up yellow and sticky phlegm, it is usually a sign of inflammation, such as bronchitis with infection. First, let the child drink more water, and second, use some cough and anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Xiaoer Kechuan Ling, plus a pediatric antibiotic, such as Zailin or Cephalexin. Your baby's cough with phlegm may be caused by a cold or a symptom of bronchial pneumonia. First, measure the baby's temperature. If the baby has a fever, take timely antipyretic measures and use anti-cold drugs and cough and expectorant drugs to control the condition. Keep warm and avoid catching cold. In addition, you can make some rock sugar pear juice or Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs stewed with snow pear for your baby, which is also effective in relieving cough and phlegm. Drink more water and keep warm to prevent catching a cold.

Air humidification is a phenomenon that many parents and friends ignore. When a child coughs, if he breathes in dry air, the machine will easily irritate the respiratory tract, and the cough will become more and more severe. In order to avoid this phenomenon, the weather is dry in autumn and winter, and you can place an air humidifier at home, or you can appropriately sprinkle a little water on the ground to increase the humidity of the air, which will have a certain effect on relieving the child's cough.