What to do if your baby coughs every morning

For example, many babies cough every morning, so many mothers are particularly worried that their babies cough every morning and pose a threat to their health. They want to fully understand what to do if their babies cough every morning? The following is a detailed answer so that you can fully understand what to do? Take your child to improve through correct treatment as soon as possible.

1. Baby cough is not necessarily a disease

In order to stop their baby's cough, parents often repeatedly beg doctors to prescribe some good medicine to stop the cough. However, the child has used many expensive medicines, so why don’t the symptoms improve much? There is a white-collar misunderstanding here - "Doctors must prescribe medicine when they see a patient, and you must take cough medicine when you have a cough."

From a medical point of view, coughing is a normal physiological defense reflex and the only way for the human body to clear respiratory mucus. Children under 3 years old have poor cough reflex and phlegm is not easy to expel. If parents give their children stronger cough suppressants as soon as they see them coughing, the cough will stop temporarily, but the phlegm cannot be expelled smoothly and accumulates in the trachea and bronchi, causing tracheal obstruction. In addition, children may cough gently when they wake up in the morning. This is a physiological phenomenon. It is just clearing the mucus accumulated in the respiratory tract at night. Parents do not need to worry.

2. Pay attention to cough caused by diseases

But at the same time, the baby's coughing symptoms should still attract enough attention from parents, because it is also a manifestation of diseases such as colds, bronchitis, pharyngitis, asthma, tuberculosis, etc. But it is worth noting that the coughs caused by different diseases are different. If parents can understand some knowledge at this time, they can immediately understand the severity of the disease, which is helpful for treatment.

Life care

1. Encourage your children to get more rest. When sleeping, you can use several pillows to support your child's back and head to prevent the secreted mucus from dripping into his throat. The baby can put a pillow under the mattress for the head;

2. Provide children with a smoke-free environment, pay attention to maintaining indoor air circulation, and avoid stimulation from gas, dust, and smoke;

3. Do not bathe your child when he is sick, because bathing will increase blood circulation, which is not good for rest and will cause the child to catch a cold again. Children with a lot of phlegm will have more secretions if they take a bath. They can only take a bath before going to bed after a week of illness, when they have a slight cough in the morning, have a good appetite, can play, and have no fever. If they sleep well, they can take a bath every other day.

4. Reduce the time of outdoor activities and avoid going to crowded public places;

5. For children who have repeated coughing and illness, they should strengthen their physical exercise to enhance their disease resistance;

6. Pay attention to weather changes, pay attention to temperature, and add or remove clothes in time.

The above introduces in detail what to do if your baby coughs in the morning? So after a comprehensive understanding, many parents must pay attention to it. If their children have been coughing in the morning for a long time, it means that there is a problem with the child’s lungs. So after a comprehensive understanding, use the correct method to treat it so that the child will no longer cough in the morning.