What to do if the baby chokes when drinking water

If you want to take better care of your baby and let your baby grow up healthily, you must pay attention to every detail of your baby's diet and daily life. Many parents will find that their babies are particularly prone to choking when feeding them water. This often makes parents very worried. They don’t know what the cause is, whether the child has some health problems, or the child is not developed enough and cannot drink water. Let’s learn about what to do if a baby chokes when drinking water.

What to do if the baby chokes when drinking water

Before babies drink water, they drink breast milk or milk made from milk powder. When babies drink water for the first time, they will feel very uncomfortable. This is normal. At this time, we must choose the appropriate size of the bottle opening, which should be smaller than the opening when drinking breast milk. We can only let the baby slowly accept a small amount of water first. After a period of time, the baby will slowly accept drinking water.

The water temperature should be appropriate, not too cold or too high. Generally, boiling water at 25 degrees Celsius is appropriate. If the baby drinks too cold water, it will easily cause diarrhea. If the baby drinks too hot water, the baby cannot drink it at all and it will burn the baby's mouth.

If you pay attention to the above details and the baby still chokes accidentally, then we need to make the baby cough out the water in the lungs. You need to pat the baby's back to let the baby cough out the water. If you cannot handle it yourself, it is best to send the baby to the hospital for treatment.

Babies don’t like to drink water at first. When you give water to a baby, he will hold it in his mouth instead of swallowing it, which will cause him to choke. So we should pay more attention to the method when feeding the baby water. It will be much better when the baby grows up.

The above is an introduction to what to do if a baby chokes when drinking water. After understanding it, we know that there are many reasons for this phenomenon. Therefore, parents should use a water cup that is suitable for the baby and the correct method when feeding the baby water. Do not feed the baby too much at one time. After all, babies are relatively small and it is difficult for them to adapt to drinking too much water at one time.