What should I do if my one and a half year old child has a cough and fever?

What should you do if your one and a half year old child has a cough and fever? Children, especially those over one and a half years old, are generally weak. If they catch a cold or eat something wrong, they will often cough and have a fever. Therefore, as a parent, you should master some correct treatment methods. So the question is, if a one and a half year old child has a cough and fever, what should we do?

1. Replenish water: Water is better than medicine. When you have a fever and sweat a lot, it is necessary to replenish water frequently with warm water. For babies aged one and a half years, continue to breastfeed. Breast milk is easy to digest, can meet nutritional needs, and replenish water. For artificial feeding, you can feed diluted whole milk, that is, 2 parts of milk powder plus 1 part of water (2:1). Although the baby's milk intake is reduced at this time, the water is supplemented, which is more conducive to the baby's digestion and absorption. It is advisable for young children to drink boiled water when they have a fever. They can be fed some boiled water appropriately to supplement the body's vitamin C and enhance disease resistance.

2. Liquid diet: For infants with fever, the diet should mainly consist of liquid food, such as milk, lotus root powder, milk (with little oil), etc. You can also drink some mung bean soup or ice watermelon to help cool down, promote diuresis and fight disease. When the child's body temperature drops and his appetite improves, he can be fed semi-liquid food, such as minced meat porridge, noodles, rice porridge, egg drop porridge, and some easily digestible food (fish).

3. Children with fever and cough should not eat too much to prevent vomiting. They should eat easily digestible food and eat less seafood and salty and greasy food to prevent allergies and coughing and aggravate symptoms.

4. Make pear stew with rock sugar

Materials preparation:

A bag of polycrystalline rock sugar. No single crystal ones.

2 pears. Try to get juicy and thin-skinned ones. Cut the pears into small pieces.

Method: First, put an appropriate amount of water in the pot. Boil until it is about to bubble. Put an appropriate amount of rock sugar into the water. Continue to heat it on low heat. You can hear the rock sugar crackling in the water. Then add small pieces of pear and continue to simmer on low heat. Turn off the heat after about 40-60 minutes. Drink it when it is slightly hot and cool. I sometimes put the leftovers in the refrigerator and take them out and drink them the next day.

What should I do if a one and a half year old child has a cough and fever? The above is the treatment method for a one and a half year old child's cough and fever that I introduced to you. If half of the children in your family are found to have symptoms of coughing and fever, you might as well try the method introduced by the editor above, which can have a good therapeutic effect. I wish you all good health.