What are the special treatments for baby cough?

Coughing is very common for babies. Generally, babies often suffer from coughing in their lives because of their poor quality. Although coughing is a common disease, it can cause great harm to the baby's body and mind, so timely treatment is the key. Although there are many ways to deal with baby's cough, there are still few that are particularly effective. So what are the special methods to deal with baby’s cough? Let’s learn about it below.

1. Rest and keep warm: Children should reduce activities, increase rest time, and slightly raise the head and chest when lying in bed to allow unobstructed breathing. Keep the indoor air fresh, maintain appropriate temperature and humidity, and avoid convection wind.

2. Ensure adequate water and nutrition supply. Encourage children to drink more water and supplement it intravenously when necessary. For children with common fever and cough, they should eat delicious, light and nutritious food. In winter, they must be given hot food. Noodles and rice soup are good. Fever and sweating consume a lot of body fluids, so you should drink more water and juice, and eat more fruits.

3. Keep the oral cavity clean. Because the child has fever, cough, and has a lot of thick sputum, severe coughing may cause vomiting, so it is necessary to maintain oral hygiene to increase comfort, improve appetite, and promote the excretion of toxins. Infants and young children can be fed an appropriate amount of boiled water after eating to clean their mouths. Older children should rinse their mouths in the morning, after meals, and before going to bed.

4. Fever care: No special treatment is required if the fever is not high. In case of high fever, physical cooling or drug cooling measures should be taken to prevent convulsions.

5. Do not bathe your child when he is sick, because bathing will increase blood circulation, which is not good for rest and will cause the child to catch a cold again. Children with a lot of phlegm will indeed have more secretions after taking a bath.

6. Observe the nature of respiratory secretions and whether sputum can be coughed up effectively; guide and encourage the child to cough effectively; if the sputum is thick, the humidity in the ward can be appropriately increased, and the indoor temperature should be maintained at around 60% to humidify the air and dilute the secretions. Ultrasonic nebulization inhalation or steam inhalation can also be used; for children who cannot cough effectively, the body position should be changed frequently, and the back should be patted to facilitate the discharge of respiratory secretions and promote the dissipation of inflammation; if the secretions are excessive and affect breathing, a suction device should be used to clear the sputum in time and keep the airway open. Oxygen inhalation can be given to those with cough and asthma symptoms.

In real life, there are many effective ways to deal with baby's cough. Therefore, there is no need for parents to worry too much. Of course, the response methods we need to take are different for different types of baby's coughs, so everyone must pay attention to this. Finally, when the baby coughs, everyone should also pay attention to their daily diet, which is also helpful for the recovery of the cough.