Is it right to check blood when the baby coughs?

Coughing is a common disease among humans. This disease may occur in all groups of people, especially babies, who have weak resistance and are most susceptible to colds and coughs. It is very uncomfortable and painful for a baby to cough, and adults become anxious and take them to the hospital. The doctor asks for a blood test, but it is inevitable to be worried about drawing blood for such a young baby. Is it right to do a blood test for a baby's cough? Let’s find out together.

It is right to check the blood of your baby when he/she is coughing, to detect whether the baby has inflammation! The key points of home care for your baby's cough are to drink water reasonably, in small amounts and frequently. No matter what kind of cough it is, you should actively let your baby drink water, and don't wait until he is thirsty to think about drinking water. If babies drink enough water, the sticky secretions can be cleared and coughed out easily. At the same time, drinking water can improve blood circulation and quickly excrete waste or toxins produced by the body's metabolism, thereby reducing irritation to the respiratory tract. Eat a light diet and avoid raw, cold and greasy foods. The diet for babies with cough should be mainly light, with more fresh vegetables and a small amount of lean meat or poultry eggs. Avoid greasy and fishy foods. Fruits are indispensable, but not too much. Do not eat oranges if you have a wind-heat cough. Avoid sour foods as they have the effect of astringing phlegm and are not conducive to eliminating phlegm.

Dietary taboos for children with cough: Keep the indoor air fresh. Open windows regularly to ventilate the home and keep the indoor temperature moderate, which helps keep the respiratory mucosa moist and the cilia on the mucosa surface moving, which helps expel phlegm. Cold resistance training to enhance physical fitness. Starting from early autumn, wash your face with cold water, take a sponge bath, or let your skin come into close contact with fresh air regularly. There are different training methods, the key is perseverance. But you must be careful to strike a balance. When a cold wave comes, you should not blindly "freeze" yourself, otherwise you will catch a cold instead of exercising. How to do cold tolerance training. The main purpose is to eliminate phlegm, and use the medication with caution. The respiratory system of children is not fully developed, and they cannot cough up phlegm as effectively as adults, so phlegm is easily retained. If cough suppressants are given as soon as a cough occurs, the cough will be stopped, but the suppressed cough will make it more difficult to expel phlegm, which will result in blockage of the respiratory tract, not only making the cough worse, but also making it easy to cause lung infection. Therefore, children's cough should be treated with expectorant in the early stages.

Recommend several dietary treatment methods;

1. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa and rock sugar. Cut the pear in half horizontally, remove the core, add 2-3 crystal sugars and 5-6 crushed Fritillaria cirrhosa, put the pear halves in a bowl, and steam for 30 minutes. It has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

2. Pear porridge. Chop three duck pears, add water and boil for half an hour, remove the residue and take out the juice, cook porridge with appropriate amount of rice, do not let it cool before eating.

3. Roast oranges. Roast the oranges over low heat until the peel turns black, then let your baby eat the warm orange flesh. Oranges are warm in nature and can help reduce phlegm and relieve coughs.

In fact, when the baby coughs, it is necessary to take the baby to the hospital for a blood test as soon as possible. This is mainly to find out whether there is some inflammation in the baby's body. And once the blood test is completed, treatment can be carried out systematically. Of course, because the baby's body and mind are relatively fragile, try not to use medication as much as possible. It is better to use some diet therapy.