What to do if your child has a cold and coughs

Babies are the apple of their parents' eyes. Once there is any problem with the child, parents will become extremely anxious. Especially for children aged two or three, who are still in the babbling stage and cannot express their ideas or their own conditions, if they feel unwell, such as catching a cold and coughing as some children do, what should parents do when their baby coughs due to a cold?

1. Exogenous wind-heat

Symptoms: nasal congestion, runny nose, persistent fever, red face, cough with phlegm, thick and yellow phlegm, sore and swollen throat, dry mouth and desire to drink water, etc.

Chinese patent medicine: For babies under 2 years old, it is suitable to choose Children's Cold Syrup, Children's Baotaikang Granules, Hulusan, and Children's Resuqing Oral Liquid; for babies over 2 years old, it is suitable to choose Children's Cold Granules, Yinhuang Oral Liquid, Children's Yanbian Granules, Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, Antiviral Oral Liquid, etc.

Western medicine: Xiaoer Baifuning, Tylenol cold syrup, Motrin syrup, etc.

2. External wind-cold

Symptoms: pale complexion, sneezing, coughing, fear of cold, runny nose, clear and thin sputum, no fever or mild fever, no thirst, no redness or swelling of the throat, etc.

Chinese patent medicine: Xiaoqinglong Granules, Qingxuan Cough Granules, Chaihuyin Granules.

Western medicine: Chengong Zaixin, Xiaobai Syrup, and Children's Paracetamol Sulfonamine.

3. Cough symptoms: Determine whether there is phlegm based on whether there is a rumbling sound in the throat.

At the beginning of a cold, there is usually an irritating dry cough with little or no sputum. It is advisable to choose a strong cough suppressant, such as Miracle Cough Syrup, Feili Cough Mixture, Jizhi Syrup, Snake Gall and Tangerine Peel Oral Liquid, and Otis Chengong Huafen. In the later stage of a cold, the cough lasts longer and there is more sputum, especially when lying flat at night. Sometimes the cough causes vomiting, and the vomit is white and sticky sputum. It is appropriate to choose expectorant and cough suppressant drugs, such as Jinzhen oral liquid, Feire Kechuan oral liquid, pediatric lung clearing granules, compound fresh bamboo sap oral liquid, children's lung clearing oral liquid, Nianjian Chuanbei cough cream, Beilai syrup, Yitanjing syrup, and ipecac syrup

4. Cold and indigestion

Symptoms: red lips, yellow and greasy tongue coating, abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, sour and smelly odor in the mouth, or vomiting, dry stools, and scanty and yellow urine.

Chinese patent medicine: Jianer Qingjie Liquid, Jiawei Baohe Pills, Xiaoer Xiaoji Zhike Oral Liquid, Zhupo Houzao Powder, Xiaoshi Antipyretic Syrup.

Parents don’t need to worry if their baby catches a cold and coughs. They can find the right solution by identifying the symptoms. In addition to the above methods, we recommend a home treatment method: (1) Boil 15g of coriander root and green onion root in water, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and drink it instead of tea. (2) Boil 20 grams of cabbage root, 3 slices of ginger and 60 grams of brown sugar together in water to easily solve the problem of baby's cold and cough. Here is a warm reminder for you: most colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotic treatment is ineffective. Misusing antibiotics will only waste the drugs and easily lead to drug resistance or allergies. Parents must be careful.

This is the solution to what to do if a child catches a cold and coughs. If parents find that their child has caught a cold and is coughing, they do not need to be too anxious, and must not blindly give them medicine. You can follow the method described above at home and boil coriander roots, onion roots and rock sugar to effectively suppress coughing. If necessary, see a doctor.