What to do if your child coughs and has phlegm while sleeping

If a child coughs and has phlegm while sleeping, the quality of his sleep at night will definitely be reduced. Over time, due to lack of sleep, his resistance will decrease, so the cough may worsen, and the primary disease that causes the cough will also become more and more serious due to the decrease in resistance. Therefore, a child's cough with phlegm is not a small problem and should be treated promptly by a doctor once discovered. Here we will introduce some issues that you should pay attention to when your child coughs and has phlegm while sleeping.

The temperature of your baby's room should be consistent with that of other rooms. The cold air from other rooms will not enter the baby's room when the door is opened. When the indoor temperature is too high, the pores all over the body are in an open state; when encountering cold air, the baby's pores cannot shrink as quickly as adults to block the invasion of cold wind. Lacking protection, viruses and bacteria will take advantage of the opportunity to enter. Getting enough sleep and fluids is crucial for babies with a cough. Lack of sleep not only affects the baby's growth and development, but also reduces the baby's resistance. Babies with low resistance will catch colds repeatedly, which is one of the main reasons for babies' coughs.

Dry throat is one of the causes of pharyngitis in babies, and pharyngitis is a common cause of chronic cough in babies. Therefore, babies should drink more water to replenish the water needed in the body, which can flush the throat and prevent it from drying out. Spicy and sweet foods will aggravate your baby's cough symptoms. Mothers often like to cook rock sugar and pear water for babies who have coughs. If too much rock sugar is added, it will not only fail to relieve the cough, but will make the cough worse due to its excessive sweetness.

If a child coughs and has phlegm and not enough attention is paid in the early stages, for example, if upper respiratory tract infection is not taken seriously, then when it becomes serious, the inflammation will spread to the bronchi and may eventually lead to bronchopneumonia. At this time, it will be more difficult to treat, and the child will have a fever and may be left with unpredictable sequelae.