What should I do if my five-month-old child coughs and has phlegm?

For children, colds and coughs are common. If you are not careful, your baby may cough and have phlegm, especially in spring when this phenomenon is most likely to occur. This is mainly due to the fact that the bacterial infection in spring is too serious. Therefore, you must appropriately increase your baby's resistance so that they will not easily have such a situation. When such a situation occurs, you must be careful to protect their bodies.

Coughing is a protective reflex action of the human body. It expels secretions and inflammatory substances in the trachea from the body, blocks foreign matter from entering the trachea, and prevents accumulation of bronchial secretions. Parents should use expectorants under the guidance of a doctor. Do not use codeine or poppy shell-based cough suppressants as they may suppress the cough center and hinder expectoration.

For cough with a lot of sputum due to lung heat, or cough with a lot of sputum due to bronchitis or pneumonia, you can use the Chinese patent medicine "Pediatric Lung Heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid", which has the functions of clearing lung heat, reducing fever, relieving cough, and having antiviral, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. The main ingredients of the medicine, ephedra and licorice, have a strong expectorant effect. ① Ephedra volatile oil has a certain expectorant effect. It can promote the secretion of phenol red in the trachea, play a role in expectoration and expectoration. At the same time, it can also increase the peristalsis of bronchial cilia and promote expectoration. ② Licorice can promote the secretion of pharyngeal and bronchial mucosa, dilute thick sputum and make it easier to cough up.

1. Clear lung heat

Pears are cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can clear away heat and resolve phlegm. After peeling the pears, take out the core, add 1 to 3 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, and stew them in water. Eat one pear twice a day. Or you can choose the method of the late famous doctor Pu Fuzhou, use 3-5 grams of the Chinese medicine ephedra, mash or pound it, put it into the heart of the pear, steam it and eat it.

2. Bronchitis cough, sputum, wheezing

Honey and white radish juice: Take 1 large white radish and 100 grams of honey. Wash the radish, hollow out the center, add honey, put it in a large bowl, add water and steam for 20 minutes. Eat when cooked. Take once in the morning and evening every day, in appropriate amount. Suitable for patients with acute bronchitis and excessive sputum.

3. Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough

Sugarcane and water chestnut drink: 1 piece of red-skinned sugarcane, 10 water chestnuts. Wash and peel the sugarcane, squeeze out the juice, and use water chestnuts to squeeze out the juice. Pour the two juices into a cup and mix well.

First of all, parents must find out the reason why their baby coughs and has phlegm, so that they can take better treatment methods, especially for babies who are more than 5 months old, whose physical constitution is particularly poor. Try not to give them some drugs with too strong side effects, otherwise their liver will not be able to excrete toxins so smoothly. Try to take some Chinese patent medicines with less toxic side effects.