How to deal with a child who has a cold and cough

All children love to go out and play. They hope that their parents can accompany them to parks, playgrounds and other places every day. This will make the children very happy. However, one thing you need to pay attention to when children go outdoors often is to keep them warm. Because the temperature is unstable now, if children wear too little, they can easily catch a cold. After catching a cold, they may have a cold and fever, and may also have a persistent cough. So how do parents deal with it?

1. Coughs that require immediate medical attention

1. If your child suddenly starts coughing severely and has difficulty breathing, there may be a foreign object blocking the trachea. Things that children may easily swallow by mistake include peanuts, pencil cases, pills, buttons, coins, candies, etc. At this time, parents should send their children to the hospital immediately. If they can be discovered immediately and emergency measures are taken to remove them, it will be fine. If they are not discovered, it will be very dangerous.

2. If the child has a high fever, cough, wheezing, and difficulty breathing, he or she must be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately.

3. Infants are very likely to suffer from bronchiolitis (a type of pneumonia). At this time, the child's face looks bad and often turns purple, or there are symptoms such as increased breathing, raised shoulders when breathing, and depression of the lower chest wall when inhaling. They should also be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.

2. Coughs that parents can solve on their own

1. Although the child has a cough and fever, he is in good spirits. This is most likely a cold or tonsillitis.

2. The child has a cough and a lot of phlegm, but no fever and is in good spirits.

3. Coughing that only occurs in the early morning or evening.

4. Mild coughing when you are nervous or after exercise.

5. Dry cough.

Parents do not need to worry too much about the above 5 types of coughs, as they can all be relieved and treated through diet therapy.

3. What should I do if my child coughs during the day and at night?

Children will not cough for no reason. It is usually caused by catching a cold or having a fever. As long as parents deal with it in time according to the method I introduced earlier on "What to do if the child just caught a cold", it rarely develops into pneumonia. Therefore, timely dispelling the cold in the early stage of a child's cold is the key to avoiding coughing. If the child is already coughing, the key to preventing the cough from getting worse is to prevent the child from catching cold and not feeding the child cold food.

A severe cough is one that occurs regardless of day or night, which means that the child has both heat and cold in the body. In the past, I treated wind-heat coughs and wind-cold coughs separately. Later, I found that as long as I followed the method I introduced earlier on "What to do when a child has just caught a cold", using ginger and sugar water to dispel the cold, soaking the child's feet until they sweat, and giving the child plenty of warm water to eliminate internal heat, it would not only cure the cold quickly and make the cough almost impossible to occur, but it was also very effective in treating children's coughs after catching a cold. In addition, let your child drink plenty of warm water. As they drink plenty of water and urinate frequently, viruses and bacteria will be excreted from the body in a timely manner. They will naturally not stay in the respiratory tract and cause respiratory inflammation, and the cough will be cured without treatment.

Coughing is the stimulation of inflammation, so all doctors think of anti-inflammatory drugs. Drinking plenty of warm boiled water is the most cost-effective anti-inflammatory drug that will not cause new damage to the body.

If parents find that their children are always coughing, they should first touch their children's hands and feet to see if they are cold and check if their tongue coating is white. If the child's hands and feet are cold, then you should massage the child's hands and feet, and give the child some warm water every thirty minutes, so that the child's cough symptoms will be relieved.