What to do if your baby coughs in March

It is the common wish of every parent that every baby can grow up healthily. However, when children are young, their body resistance is relatively weak. If you are not careful when taking care of the baby, it is easy for them to get some diseases. Coughing is the most common disease. Especially for three-month-old babies, once they have a cough, parents are always particularly worried. Moreover, long-term coughing of babies can easily cause suffocation and affect the baby's rest. Let's learn about what to do if a three-month-old baby coughs.

What to do if your baby coughs in March

Because babies are young and have relatively low immunity, they can easily catch a cold if they are not careful. The cough is often the last symptom to disappear, and it often lasts for several weeks. Parents can't help but feel distressed when their baby keeps coughing. What should I do if my three-month-old baby has a cough?

1. Drink water reasonably, drink small amounts frequently. No matter what kind of cough it is, you should actively let your baby drink water, and don't wait until he is thirsty to think about drinking water. If babies drink enough water, the sticky secretions can be diluted and coughed out more easily. At the same time, drinking water can improve blood circulation and quickly excrete waste or toxins produced by the body's metabolism, thereby reducing irritation to the respiratory tract.

2. Eat a light diet and avoid raw, cold and greasy food. The diet for babies with cough should be mainly light, with more fresh vegetables and a small amount of lean meat or poultry eggs. Avoid greasy and fishy foods. Fruits are indispensable, but not too much. Do not eat oranges if you have a wind-heat cough. Avoid sour foods as they have the effect of astringing phlegm and are not conducive to eliminating phlegm.

3. Keep the indoor air fresh. Open windows regularly to ventilate the home and keep the indoor temperature moderate, which helps keep the respiratory mucosa moist and the cilia on the mucosa surface moving, which helps expel phlegm.

4. Cold resistance training to enhance physical fitness. Starting from early autumn, wash your face with cold water, take a sponge bath, or let your skin come into close contact with fresh air regularly. There are different training methods, the key is perseverance. But you must be careful to strike a balance. When a cold wave comes, you should not blindly "freeze" yourself, otherwise you will catch a cold instead of exercising.

5. Focus on expectoration and use the medicine with caution. The baby's respiratory system is not fully developed, and the baby cannot cough up phlegm as effectively as an adult, so phlegm is easily retained. If cough suppressants are given as soon as the baby coughs, the cough will be stopped, but the suppressed cough will make it more difficult to expel phlegm, which will result in blockage of the respiratory tract, not only making the cough worse, but also easily leading to lung infection. Therefore, expectorant treatment should be performed first in the early stages of a baby's cough.

The above is an introduction to what to do if a March baby coughs. We must pay great attention to such symptoms and not blindly give the baby medicine. We must understand the cause and make timely adjustments. In addition, we must pay attention to the indoor air circulation where the baby is and ensure that the baby drinks more boiled water.