What should I do if my baby has a cold and is a little wheezing?

Once the weather changes a little, parents will worry because the baby's body can easily change with the seasons, and it is especially easy to catch a cold during the transition between seasons. So, what should you do if your baby has a cold and is a little wheezing? First of all, make sure to drink plenty of water and get enough sleep and rest. If the cough is severe, medication can be used to help the body's functions recover as quickly as possible. Looking at colds, the main factor is still weak physical constitution, so we should strengthen physical exercise and improve body functions on a daily basis.

If you use too many antipyretics as soon as you have a fever, not only will the above series of changes be difficult to achieve, but it may also mask the condition and delay treatment. In addition, the symptoms become atypical after the fever subsides, which also makes diagnosis difficult. Therefore, when you have a fever, do not rush to reduce it before the diagnosis is confirmed. Only choose the corresponding antipyretic analgesic when one of the following situations occurs: the fever is too high (above 39 degrees), especially in children with high fever convulsions. Although the fever is not too high, there are obvious headaches, insomnia, impaired consciousness, which affect the child's rest; due to persistent fever, the heart and lung function has been endangered, or the high fever cannot be tolerated, etc., antipyretic analgesics may be used as appropriate. After a fever is confirmed, do not simply reduce the fever, and do not use too many medications to reduce the fever.

Generally speaking, if the body temperature is below 38 degrees, there is no need to take antipyretics. Just drink plenty of water (small amounts and multiple times) and rest in bed. If the fever is above 38.5 degrees, you can use a wool patch soaked in cold water to place on the forehead, armpits, thighs and other parts of the child to cool down. Ice packs will be more effective. In case of high fever, give the child an appropriate dose of antipyretic medicine under the guidance of a doctor. Don't be in a hurry and use medicine indiscriminately.

Pediatric nutrition experts recommend that young children with a fever should undergo the following dietary adjustments.

1. Stay hydrated

Water is better than medicine. When you have a fever and sweat a lot, it is necessary to drink warm water frequently to replenish your body. For infants under six months old, continue to breastfeed. Breast milk is easy to digest, can meet nutritional needs, and replenish water. Artificial feeding can be fed with diluted whole milk, i.e.

Add 2 parts of milk powder to 1 part of water (2:1). Although the baby's milk intake is reduced, the water is replenished, which is more conducive to digestion and absorption by the baby. 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. Drink enough water to keep your lips moisturized, but don't drink too much.

2. Liquid diet

For young children with fever, the diet should mainly consist of liquid food, such as milk, lotus root powder, milk (with less oil), etc. You can also drink some mung bean soup or ice watermelon to help cool down, promote diuresis and fight disease. However, for infants (less than 6 months old) with diarrhea, who have poor resistance, weak gastric motility, and poor tolerance of gastric mucosa, cold drinks are not conducive to physical recovery and should be avoided. 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). The diet should be clean

The principle is to eat light and easy to digest food, use less oil and salt, eat small meals frequently, and avoid spicy and irritating foods. But there is no need to avoid certain foods to prevent malnutrition and decreased resistance.

3. Take sugar and salt water

If a young child has fever and diarrhea, the medicine can be taken multiple times. Take sugar and salt water. The preparation ratio is 500 ml of water, one teaspoon of sugar and half a bottle cap of salt. 500 ml can be taken within 4 hours. At the same time, you can supplement with electrolyte foods such as citrus, bananas and other fruits (high in potassium and sodium), milk and soy milk (containing calcium), rice soup, and pasta (containing zinc). For those with more severe symptoms, they should temporarily fast and receive intravenous drips to replenish water and electrolytes. After the diarrhea and vomiting are relieved, you can eat liquid food, such as rice soup, filtered vegetable juice, lotus root powder, etc., but you should avoid milk and soy milk (which can easily produce gas).

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

Children's physique is definitely weaker than that of adults. When they have a cold or wheezing, try not to inject immunoglobulin into your baby. After all, this product has certain risks, and we do not encourage parents to use it. What parents should do in daily life is to let their babies do more exercise, eat healthily, and not be partial or picky about food, so that their bodies can be healthy.