What to do if a child has a cough

A child's cough can cause serious damage to the lungs because their lungs are not fully developed and their trachea is particularly fragile. If they cough for a long time, it will cause great damage to their trachea and lungs. Therefore, many parents want to fully understand what to do if a child coughs. A detailed introduction is given below so that you can have a comprehensive understanding.

1. Turn your child over or pat his back frequently. This will promote blood circulation in the lungs and loosen the phlegm in the bronchi to make it easier to discharge. Patting the back: The sick child lies on his side or is held up to lie on his side. The parent bends his five fingers slightly into a semi-circle, that is, half-clenched into a fist, and gently pats the sick child's back, alternating between the two sides. The force of the tapping should not be too great, and it should be done from top to bottom and from outside to inside in sequence. Pat each side for 3 to 5 minutes, 2 to 3 times a day.

2. Do not give your child cough medicine before finding out the cause of his cough. Some young parents, when they find their children have a slight cough, are eager to feed their children various cough suppressants and cough syrups. After entering the human body, cough suppressants can quickly act on the cough center and produce a strong cough suppressant effect. Although this practice can temporarily relieve cough symptoms, it can cause a large amount of sputum and germs to accumulate in the respiratory tract, leading to secondary bacterial infection. In severe cases, it can cause chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and even atelectasis and heart failure, which are life-threatening.

3. If the child has obvious inflammatory symptoms while coughing, such as fever, yellow and sticky sputum, increased white blood cell count in the blood, etc., antibacterial drugs should be used in time under the guidance of a doctor.

4. If your child has a cough, you can boil water with a piece of ginger and a clove of garlic every day and give it to the baby to drink, and the baby should drink more warm water. Use a green moxa stick to smoke the lower abdomen to the navel for 2 minutes, then drink a cup of warm water, once a week, be careful not to scald the child. You can't eat cold food and you can't catch cold. If your child is sick and has a poor appetite, he can give him loach soup once. Replenish Qi deficiency and warm the spleen and stomach.

The above is a detailed introduction on what to do when a child has a cough. So after a comprehensive understanding, every parent should pay attention when their child has a cough. The above is a comprehensive answer. You can understand what to do through the above introduction, and treat your child’s cough with the correct method to make your child recover as soon as possible.