What to do if your child coughs and has phlegm during the day

When a child becomes sick, parents are very distressed, because children's resistance is relatively poor, and if they do not receive timely treatment, it will affect the child's normal development. When a child has a cough, it is very troublesome, especially at night when the cough is very severe. So what should we do if the child coughs and has phlegm during the day?

1 If your baby keeps coughing while sleeping, try home relief solutions such as raising your baby's head, which will relieve the coughing symptoms. Elevating the head is helpful for most coughs caused by infections, because when lying flat, the baby's nasal secretions can easily flow down the throat, causing throat itching and causing the cough to worsen at night. Elevating the head can reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. Guidance: You should also change your sleeping position frequently, preferably alternating between the left and right sides, which is conducive to the discharge of respiratory secretions. Kind tip: Do not let a baby who is coughing lie down to sleep immediately after feeding to prevent vomiting and aspiration caused by coughing. If accidental aspiration and choking occur, you should immediately put the baby in a low-head and high-feet position, pat the back gently, encourage the baby to cough, and cough out the inhaled material.

2 Consider bronchial infection or pneumonia. It is recommended to see a doctor for auscultation and fluoroscopy to confirm the diagnosis, and take an X-ray if necessary. Guidance: For colds, you can take Hutong granules, and for mild respiratory infections, you can take anti-inflammatory drugs. For coughs or sputum, you can take Xianzhuli oral liquid or Xiaoer Ma Gan granules. In severe cases, intravenous infusion is recommended.

3 Tracheitis may be caused by viral and bacterial infection, chemical stimulation, allergies, etc. Guidance: In addition to anti-inflammatory and antiviral drugs, cough and phlegm-relieving drugs such as pediatric cough granules, licorice tablets, snake gall and Fritillaria oral liquid, loquat cough syrup, etc. can be added, and some anti-allergic drugs such as chlorpheniramine, cyproheptadine or promethazine can be added. There is a folk remedy that can be used: stewing Fritillaria cirrhosa with rock sugar has a very good therapeutic effect.

The above is an introduction on what to do if a child coughs and has phlegm during the day. Coughing in children is a common occurrence. If a child has this situation, he should be treated in time so as not to affect the child’s development. Otherwise, if it is not treated for a long time, it will cause some very great harm to the child’s body.