What to do if your baby has a runny nose after recovering from a cold

Nowadays, there are many children in various hospitals who catch colds. Many children are still very young. The reason for this is usually closely related to the children's living environment. If the child catches a cold, or if the parents do not take good care of the child, then the child will catch a cold. There are many symptoms of a cold, but some children usually have a runny nose after catching a cold. So what should the baby do after this symptom appears?

At the beginning of a cold, you will have clear nasal discharge, but later on you may have thicker nasal discharge, and may also be accompanied by some coughing, which may last for about 7-10 days. This child's illness course is relatively long. In addition to clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, we also need to look at the child's diet and urination and defecation. If the child's stool is relatively dry, there may still be some internal heat and food accumulation. You can use some spleen-strengthening and lung-heat-clearing medicine, such as Tongrentang's Xiaoer Huashi Pills. If you have thick nasal discharge, you can use some rhinitis clearing medicine.

The nasal mucosa of children has more blood vessels than that of adults, and the secretions are more. In addition, the nervous system's regulatory function on nasal mucosal secretion and ciliary movement is not yet fully developed, and children are not good at wiping their noses by themselves, so they often have clear nasal discharge. This is a normal physiological phenomenon and there is no need to worry.

If there are two lines of snot hanging under the child's nostrils all day long or yellow-green purulent snot flows out, it is a sign of illness. People who have yellow-green, purulent nasal discharge for a long time may suffer from sinusitis. Frequent runny nose may be caused by a lack of vitamin A and vitamin B, and treatment with these two vitamins can be effective. Allergies to inhaled dust can cause a large amount of clear nasal discharge within a short period of time. A small number of children with foreign objects in their nasal cavity may also have a runny nose frequently.

Some children with nasopharyngeal lymphadenopathy also often have a runny nose, but they also have symptoms such as severe snoring, dull facial expression, and a flat nose, which can seriously affect their development and posture and should be treated in a timely manner.

In short, children with runny nose should be treated accordingly according to the cause. Strengthening cold-resistance exercises, letting children go outdoors more often, keeping the air fresh, and proper nutrition can all help prevent runny noses in children.

Principles and requirements of dietary treatment for children with colds

1. The diet should be light, soft and thin: Since the spleen and stomach functions of patients with colds are often affected, light, soft and thin foods are easy to digest and absorb, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat liquid or liquid foods such as white rice porridge, milk, cornmeal porridge, rice soup, soft noodles, egg soup, lotus root powder paste, almond powder paste, etc.

2. Drink more boiled water: People with colds often have fever and sweat, and lose a lot of water in the body. Drinking plenty of water can enhance blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and dissipate body temperature in a timely manner. Therefore, for people with colds who do not have stomach problems, drinking light green tea will have better effects. Tea has a good diuretic effect, and it also has the effects of sweating and stomachic strengthening, and can also clear away internal heat.

3. Eat more fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables can promote appetite, help digestion, replenish a large amount of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and make up for the insufficient energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. For wind-cold colds, you can eat more ginger, green onion, coriander, etc.; for wind-heat colds, you should eat more rapeseed, amaranth, water spinach, spinach, etc.; for summer-heat colds, you should eat more wild rice stem, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, etc.; when the evil heat is slightly calmer, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus root, citrus, apples, apricots, loquats, sugarcane, water chestnuts, etc.

Through the treatment methods we introduce to children, when children face this symptom, they can get timely improvement. When children have a runny nose after recovering from a cold, we need to see whether the symptoms appear after the cold has recovered or if the child has caught a cold again. There is a big difference between the two, so we need to observe carefully. If the child continues to have a runny nose and has many abnormal symptoms, we need to give the child medicine for treatment.