What to do if your 2-year-old baby has a fever and cough

As babies grow up, the thing that worries parents the most is fever and colds. Minor symptoms like fever and cough are often ignored by parents, but these minor symptoms can often lead to major diseases such as pneumonia and upper respiratory tract infection. Let’s take a look at what to do if a two-year-old baby has a fever and cough?

Here I will teach parents a simple way to distinguish them, which is to observe the baby’s tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough, which means the baby has a severe cold. The sputum from the cough is thinner, white and sticky, and there is nasal congestion and runny nose. At this time, you should eat some warm, expectorant and cough-relieving foods. If the baby's tongue coating is yellow or red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the baby has a lot of internal heat. The phlegm is yellow, thick, and difficult to cough up, and there is a sore throat. At this time, the baby should eat some food that clears the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. Internal injury coughs are mostly long-term and recurring coughs. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their babies some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, and replenish the lung qi.

When a baby has a fever, medication should not be the main method of reducing fever. The most effective method is:

1. Increase the ambient temperature. When the ambient temperature rises, blood vessels will dilate and blood flow will increase, which will allow better heat dissipation.

2. Take a hot bath. A hot bath can promote vasodilation better than a cold bath, achieving the effect of heat dissipation.

3. Induce baby to urinate and defecate. When the baby has a fever, let him drink more water and eat more to induce urination and defecation, so as to lower the body temperature.

Coughing is the stimulation of inflammation, so all doctors think of anti-inflammatory drugs. Drinking plenty of warm boiled water is the most cost-effective anti-inflammatory drug that will not cause new damage to the body.

The above are some treatment methods for fever and cough in 2-year-old babies. Because the baby's physical constitution is relatively fragile, parents must read the instructions carefully when choosing medicines to see if they are suitable for their babies. Secondly, special attention should be paid to daily living habits to provide a good development environment for the baby.