How to solve the baby's cough at ten months old

Ten months is a special period for babies. Babies of this age can generally try to stand up on their own. However, ten-month-old babies are still relatively weak, and colds, fevers, and coughs are common. Severe coughing has a great impact on babies, and some may even experience nausea and vomiting. How can you solve the problem of a ten-month-old baby's cough? Let’s take a detailed look at it below.

1. You can first let your baby drink more boiled water, then steam a pear for your baby and add some honey to relieve cough.

2. Give your baby sunflower brand children's lung-clearing and cough-relieving granules

3. Children should eat a light diet during their cough period. For children with long-term cough, you can boil pears and rock sugar in water to drink, which has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. You can also cook porridge with fresh lilies, which is very effective for children who have been coughing for a long time and have weak lung qi. For children with spleen deficiency, they can eat more yam, or cook lotus seed porridge, coix seed porridge and jujube porridge.

4. Avoid eating cold food, fatty and sweet food, and oranges

5. You can often turn your child over or pat his back, which can promote blood circulation in the lungs and loosen the phlegm in the bronchi for easier discharge. The method of patting the back is as follows: the sick child lies on his side or is held up to lie on his side, and the parent bends his five fingers into a semi-circle, that is, half-clenched fists, and pats the sick child's back, alternating between both sides. The patting force should not be too strong, and it should be done from top to bottom, from outside to inside, in sequence, patting each side for 3 to 5 minutes, 2 to 3 times a day.

6. Don’t give your child antibiotics randomly

Many parents become very anxious when they see their children have a cold or cough, and they wish their children would recover immediately. So they gave their children the best medicine they could find, including antibiotics. The price of antibiotics has the characteristic of rising as the tide lifts all boats. Children who have only a minor cold will take top-level antibiotics, which will cause them to develop antibodies. When he caught a cold and cough again, no antibiotics worked. In addition, parents must insist on giving their children medication as directed by the doctor, because it takes some time for each medication to take effect. But anxious parents always hope that the medicine will cure the disease immediately. If they give their children one medicine and see if it doesn’t work, they will quickly switch to another one. The doctor said that this method of frequent dressing changes is not advisable.

7. Do not give adult medicine to children

Many families have a home medicine cabinet that contains some common medicines such as colds and cough suppressants. Some parents cannot find suitable children's cough suppressants at the moment, so they give their children a small amount of adult cough suppressants. However, some adult cough suppressants often contain ingredients that calm the central nervous system and are not suitable for children. In addition, adult drugs have not been tested for adverse reactions in children. Any toxic side effects that occur after children take the drugs will have lifelong effects on the children. Therefore, children with coughs should take children's special cough suppressants.

In addition to taking medication on time, pediatric experts recommend that when children cough, parents should give their children more water and eat more fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, tangerines, oranges, etc. Give your children less phlegm-producing foods such as oranges and meat. Other folk remedies for children’s coughs include rock sugar and pear water, and three-root soup (white radish root, coriander root, and cabbage root cooked together).

When your baby coughs at ten months old, you can use the seven methods described above to solve the problem, and the effect is quite significant. Of course, if these methods still don’t work, then you need to send your baby to the hospital for treatment. When your baby has a cough, you can give him some stewed pear water to drink, which can also help relieve the symptoms. Pay attention to your baby's nutrition in all aspects and improve his resistance.