What to do if your baby has a runny nose and cough

When a baby is just born, its body is not fully developed, so the physical constitution of the newborn is generally weak. In terms of daily life, babies generally need to wear more clothes and keep warm, especially in autumn and winter. However, many babies still often suffer from symptoms such as colds and fever. When adults have a cold or cough, they can just take some medicine, but babies have weaker constitutions and cannot eat everything they want, so many parents are very worried about their babies' colds and coughs. So what should we do if our baby has a runny nose and cough?

What to do if your baby has a cold and cough

Coughs can be divided into exogenous coughs and endogenous coughs. Coughs usually caused by colds are exogenous coughs. Among exogenous coughs, there are wind-cold coughs and wind-heat coughs. The medications for different types of coughs are completely different. Parents can distinguish between wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough by observing their child's tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, it means the child has a cold cough, which means the child has a severe cold. The sputum from the cough is thinner, whiter, and stickier, and there is also nasal congestion and runny nose. If the child's tongue coating is yellow or red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the child has a lot of internal heat. The phlegm is yellow, thick, and difficult to cough up, and there is a sore throat.

1. Caused by exogenous wind-cold: symptoms include pale complexion, fear of cold, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, clear sputum, no fever or slight fever, no thirst, no redness or swelling of the throat, etc. The following drugs can be used:

Chinese patent medicine: Qingxuan cough-relieving granules, Xiaoqinglong granules, Chaihuyin granules, etc.

Western medicine: Children's acetaminophen sulfonamine, Chengong Zaixin, Xiaobai syrup, etc.

2. Exogenous wind-heat: Symptoms include persistent fever, red face, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough with sputum, thick and yellow sputum, sore throat, red and swollen throat, dry mouth and preference for water. The following drugs can be used:

Chinese patent medicine: For babies under 2 years old, it is recommended to use children's cold syrup, Hulu powder, children's Baotaikang granules, and children's heat-clearing oral liquid; for babies under 2 years old...

I believe that friends who have read the above content have some understanding of the question of what to do if a baby has a runny nose and cough. Generally speaking, some small methods can alleviate the baby's condition, but it is not recommended for everyone to use them, because each baby's physique is different, so using folk remedies indiscriminately may aggravate the child's condition. Therefore, it is recommended that if your baby at home shows this symptom, it is best to go to the hospital for treatment.