What should I do if my eight-month-old baby has a cold and cough?

In summer, the weather is quite hot, so almost everyone uses air conditioners and electric fans, but the resistance of the back is relatively low, especially when the temperature difference is too large in the air-conditioned room and outdoors, it is easy to catch a cold. After catching a cold, the baby will develop cough, runny nose, nasal congestion and even fever. You need to be more careful when caring for your baby with a cold. Here we will introduce some countermeasures for an eight-month-old baby with a cold and cough.

1. Bamboo Leaf Porridge

Ingredients: 20 grams of light bamboo leaves, 50 grams of millet.

practice:

1. Wash the bamboo leaves and millet and set aside.

2. Add appropriate amount of water to the light bamboo leaves and boil them to get the soup. After filtering out the residue, add millet and cook until the porridge is ready.

Health Tips:

Both fresh bamboo leaves and light bamboo leaves can clear the heart and relieve restlessness, and promote urination, but fresh bamboo leaves are more effective in clearing heart heat, cooling the stomach, and treating wind-heat in the upper part of the body; light bamboo leaves have a better diuretic effect, and are good at dissipating dampness and relieving heat. This product can clear heart fire, promote diuresis and relieve fever. People with yin deficiency should use it with caution.

2. Cabbage root soup

Ingredients: 3 cabbage roots, 7 green onions with roots.

Seasoning: appropriate amount of white sugar.

practice:

1. Wash the cabbage roots and green onion with roots, chop them and set aside.

2. Add appropriate amount of water to the cabbage roots and scallion roots, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cook for 15 minutes. Add appropriate amount of sugar and drink while hot.

Health Tips:

Cabbage produces toxins during the rotting process. The nitrite produced can cause the hemoglobin in the blood to lose its oxygen-carrying capacity, causing severe hypoxia in the human body and even life-threatening. Therefore, rotten cabbage must not be eaten. This product is suitable for children with colds. After taking it, let the child lie in bed and cover himself with a quilt to sweat. Sweating will have a better effect.

3. White radish honey

Ingredients: 1 large radish, 2 grams of ephedra.

Seasoning: 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns.

practice:

1. Wash the white radish, slice it and set aside.

2. Put white radish slices in a bowl, add honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc. and steam for 30 minutes. Take it immediately while it is hot. You will recover after lying in bed and sweating.

Health Tips:

When consuming honey, you can just drink it with warm water. Do not use boiling water, and it is not suitable to be decocted. This product can induce sweating and dispel cold, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, and is suitable for children with cold and cough.

The above article introduces some methods that can treat cough in eight-month-old babies, mainly dietary conditioning methods. In addition to these foods, salt-steamed oranges, rock sugar and snow pear soup, Sichuan loquat and snow pear soup, garlic water, etc. can all treat baby's cold and cough. Of course, you should also give your baby more water. Remember to open windows for ventilation and keep the air circulating in the room.