What to do if your baby coughs after choking on milk

Many women are first-time mothers and have no experience in raising children. Newborns often choke on milk, which is mostly caused by incorrect feeding posture. Newborns are most likely to choke if they are feeding while lying in bed or if they wake up in the middle of the night and are groggy when feeding. So what should you do if your baby coughs after choking on milk? Perhaps the following text can help you solve some practical problems.

Frequent choking and coughing can cause malnutrition in infants, weaken the body's resistance, and often make respiratory infections difficult to cure. These factors can reduce the intake of vitamin A, forming a vicious circle.

If the baby often chokes, on the one hand, the mother should pay attention to scientific feeding methods, such as feeding the baby when the baby is fully awake, holding the baby in a semi-lateral position during feeding, standing the baby upright after feeding, patting the back gently, feeding at regular times and in fixed quantities, etc.; on the other hand, the baby should be supplemented with vitamin A in time by taking cod liver oil drops orally. The specific method is: 3 times a day, 1 drop each time. This method can treat and prevent infant choking.

Choking on milk is a common abnormal symptom in infants, especially newborns. Pay attention to the breastfeeding posture. When breastfeeding, put your feet on a small stool, hold the baby, and use the thumb and index finger of your other hand to gently pinch the nipple to feed the baby to prevent the nipple from blocking the baby's nostrils or causing the baby to choke and spit up milk due to too rapid milk.

When feeding artificially, simple ways to prevent choking include not using nipples with too large holes and promptly adjusting the baby's feeding speed. Choking on milk is an abnormal phenomenon and must be examined by a doctor and given timely and appropriate treatment. If the baby breathes smoothly after choking, it is best to find a way to let him cry hard again to observe the oxygen inhalation and exhalation movements while crying to see if there are any abnormalities (such as weak and modulated voice, difficulty in breathing, severe chest concavity, etc.). If so, send the baby to the hospital immediately. If the baby cries loudly, with full energy and rosy face, it means there is no problem.

In addition, in cases of bronchopneumonia, laryngeal cartilage softening, laryngitis, etc., the glottis cannot be closed well when swallowing, and a small amount of food enters the trachea, causing a certain degree of obstruction. The respiratory tract is blocked to eliminate the food, which manifests as choking for breastfeeding babies. Therefore, choking on milk is also a common symptom in patients with bronchopneumonia.

In fact, choking on milk is also a manifestation of self-protection, but choking on milk cannot guarantee that all the food that enters the respiratory tract will be eliminated. Residual milk can irritate the respiratory tract and aggravate respiratory infections.

In the future, you should know what to do if your baby coughs after choking on milk. If the condition does not improve after using the above methods, you must see a doctor and ask the doctor to provide targeted treatment based on the situation. If a child often chokes on milk, parents should pay attention and check if there is any problem with the esophagus.