What to do if your child coughs and has phlegm

When a child coughs and has phlegm, you must actively check to find out the cause. For example, if it may be caused by a cold, then you must actively treat the cold. If it is caused by pneumonia, then you should pay enough attention to it and receive treatment as soon as possible to avoid delays in the disease. If a normal child has a cough and phlegm, the child should drink more water and get enough sleep. Good sleep can relax the muscles of the whole body, thereby reducing the reactivity to external stimuli, and the coughing phenomenon will be relieved to a certain extent.

If a child has recurring cough or a cold cough that never goes away, it is usually a cough caused by lung heat. The main clinical manifestations of lung-heat cough are repeated coughing and coughing up yellow sputum, accompanied by dry mouth, sore throat, constipation, red urine, fever or wheezing, red tongue, and thin yellow or greasy yellow tongue coating. Commonly used Chinese patent medicines such as Children's Lung Heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid can be used for clinical treatment. It is a professional medicine for clearing lung heat, relieving cough and reducing phlegm for children. It is effective for lung heat cough and children's persistent cough.

Children with coughs should pay special attention to daily care: keep the indoor air fresh, open windows for ventilation frequently, and strengthen air disinfection. Disinfect sputum and sputum collection utensils. Pay attention to oral hygiene and rinse your mouth after expectoration. Depending on the location of the lesion, use hollow palms to pat the back or perform body drainage to ensure smooth discharge of sputum. When the phlegm is thick and difficult to cough up, you can take bamboo juice water orally to eliminate phlegm as prescribed by your doctor. Babies should drink more water. In addition to meeting the body's need for water, sufficient water can help dilute phlegm, making it easier to cough up, increase urine volume, and promote the excretion of harmful substances.

It is very important to adjust your diet when you have a cough. You should never eat foods that help produce dampness and phlegm. These foods are more common such as fish, shrimp and other seafood. Eating these foods will cause more phlegm when you cough, so parents should not prepare these foods for their children. When you have a cough, you should avoid eating foods such as pepper, chili, and ginger.