What to do if your child has a cold, cough or vomiting

Nowadays, parents pay special attention to their children's health. Special protection is given to children. However, it is still inevitable that children will suffer from pediatric colds. Some children only have runny nose when they have a cold, while others will cough, have a runny nose, red throat, and even vomit. This is a headache for parents. So, what should parents do if children have a cold, cough, and vomit? Let’s find out together.

Cough is the most common respiratory symptom after a cold in children, and almost all lung diseases have coughing symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when children cough, the disease is in the lungs. The main reason why children are prone to coughing is that their lungs are delicate and often insufficient, as well as their internal deficiencies such as weak defensive defenses and weak ability to resist pathogens. In clinical practice, we often see many children who cannot adapt to sudden changes in climate and suffer from repeated colds and coughs. These children have poor adaptability to the external environment, weak resistance, and are particularly susceptible to various pathogenic factors. In addition to the fact that children are in an immature stage of growth and development, it is also because most of these children prefer sweets and greasy food. In addition, the room temperature is too warm, or they are too pampered, wearing fur clothes and quilts, which affects the children's ability to dissipate heat on their own, resulting in a physique of heat accumulation in the lungs and stomach. Such children are prone to crying, flushed cheeks, and restless sleep.

If you are exposed to cold wind at night, you will experience symptoms such as fever, runny nose, cough, sore throat, and difficulty coughing up phlegm. Some children, due to improper diet and excessive consumption of cold drinks and ice food, gradually develop anorexia which is caused by the cold damaging the spleen. Due to long-term loss of appetite, weak spleen and stomach, weakened digestion and absorption functions, nutrition cannot meet the body's needs, which reduces resistance. At this time, if affected by external wind and cold, it is easy to cause a cold. The disease recurs repeatedly, often with nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and excessive sputum. Treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs and cough suppressants and expectorants is ineffective, resulting in a prolonged course of the disease. It can be seen that it is very important for parents to feed their children properly. Regarding children's colds and coughs, parents should pay attention to the following points: First, during the influenza season, children with fever, colds and coughs should have a longer course of illness. After diagnosis and treatment by the doctor, they should take medicine and receive care at home according to the doctor's instructions. Do not take your child to the hospital repeatedly because of a persistent fever, which increases the chance of repeated infection. Second, in the early stages of a child's cold, when the condition is not serious, you can first give him some children's cold medicine; when the fever reaches above 38.5℃, take antipyretics in time, try to rest quietly, and drink plenty of water. When the condition worsens, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time. It is not advisable to handle it by yourself at this time, especially do not take adult medicines casually.

The above is the answer to what to do if a child has a cold, coughs, and vomits. Coughing can easily lead to increased abdominal pressure and cause vomiting. If a baby coughs, you should use cough suppressants and expectorants, such as Expectorant and Tylenol Cold and Cough Syrup. At the same time, make sure your baby has enough water intake to dilute the phlegm and help with the discharge of phlegm! You can also try stewing snow pears with Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs and rock sugar to relieve your child's cough and moisten his lungs.