How to treat a baby’s runny nose and cough?

Babies have relatively low resistance, so if they encounter the change of seasons and sudden changes in temperature, they are very likely to catch a cold. Colds are the most common disease and almost everyone has had a cold, but it is more troublesome for children to catch a cold. Babies with colds will have runny nose, cough, nasal congestion, headache, and may even have a fever. So how should babies with runny nose and cough be treated?

We can look at the baby's tongue coating. When the child's tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough. This is a cold caused by the child catching a cold. The sputum coughed up by wind-cold cough will be thinner, and nasal congestion and runny nose will occur when coughing. If you want to treat wind-cold cough, mothers can prepare some warmer food to feed the baby. Helping the baby get rid of the cold is a fundamental solution.

In addition, let’s take a look at how to identify wind-heat cough. If the baby’s tongue coating is yellow, it may be because the child has too much internal heat and the cough is caused by wind-heat. Wind-heat cough will also be accompanied by sore throat. Generally, you need to eat some foods that can reduce heat, and also some foods that can reduce phlegm and relieve cough to regulate your body.

1. Help your baby blow his nose in time. When a child has a runny nose, it is because the body's resistance has come into play. The baby's body needs to detoxify in time. The baby is still young and cannot blow his nose by himself. Mothers must blow their noses carefully. This can not only help the baby relieve pain, but also allow the baby to detoxify in time.

2. Give your baby a hot bath. If the child has a runny nose, mothers can give the baby a hot bath. When your child is taking a bath, you can use the steam in the hot water to help the baby sweat, which will relieve the child's runny nose.

3. Coughing can easily affect the child's trachea. If the condition is serious, the most important thing parents need to do is to send the baby to the hospital for examination and let the doctor treat the baby's cough. This will reduce the impact of the child's cough on the baby's health.

The article introduces some methods to treat baby's cold, cough and runny nose. There are many ways to relieve the symptoms of a cold in life. In addition to taking medication, dietary conditioning is one of them. Eat more foods that can moisten the throat, such as pear water, garlic water, ginger water, etc. You can also massage the acupoints on your baby's nose more.