What to do if your child keeps coughing

Cough is a disease we often encounter. Cough affects a wide range of people, whether they are old or young, they will develop a cough if they are not careful. When a child is sick, family members will be very worried, especially babies, whose physiological organs are not fully developed. Therefore, once they are sick, the family will be on high alert. And if the cough lasts for a long time, it will make everyone feel distressed. So what should we do when a child keeps coughing?

1. If your baby coughs while he is awake, pick him up, stroke his back and pat him gently. If the child keeps coughing while falling asleep, you can raise the upper body and lie on the side, and use a cushion or pillow to support the child's shoulders and back. Let your baby sleep on his left or right side alternately, which is conducive to the discharge of respiratory secretions. Do not let a coughing baby lie down to sleep immediately after feeding to prevent spitting up milk due to coughing and causing aspiration. If the patient has accidentally inhaled and choked, you should immediately lower the patient's head, pat his back, and encourage him to cough so that he can cough out the inhaled material.

2. Secretions from the nose and sinuses will flow into the throat when the child lies flat, causing throat itching and causing the cough to worsen at night. Raising the head can reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. You can place a pillow under your baby's mattress to elevate his head.

3. When the cough is severe and there is phlegm in the throat, you can let the child inhale steam or sit in the bathroom with the child, turn on the hot water, and let the warm and humid steam enter the airway.

4. Drinking more warm drinks can make sticky phlegm thinner and easier to cough out. It is best to let children drink warm water, warm milk, rice soup, etc. You can also feed children fresh fruit juice mixed with warm water. Choose juices with less stimulation such as apple juice or pear juice, and avoid feeding citrus juices such as orange juice and grapefruit juice.

What should I do if my child keeps coughing? This is an issue that many adults are very concerned about, because when a baby coughs, not only will the child's throat hurt, but it will also make the adults feel heartbroken. Children should not be given medicines indiscriminately. Therefore, when a child coughs, be sure to send the child to a regular hospital in time so that the child can be better treated to prevent the baby from suffering more pain.