What to do if your baby coughs and vomits at night

Generally speaking, if a baby has symptoms of coughing for a long time, it is very easy for the lungs to be damaged due to coughing, and even affect the life of the child. Therefore, when parents find that their children have symptoms of coughing and vomiting, they should try their best to take measures to stop coughing and prevent vomiting. So, what should you do if your baby coughs and vomits at night? Let me give you a detailed introduction below, I hope you will understand.

Baby's cough and vomiting are mainly caused by bronchitis accompanied by indigestion. During the treatment period, the baby should first adjust the diet, pay attention to changes in indoor temperature, drink more water during coughing, and do not eat spicy or too salty food, which will aggravate the baby's condition. Eating some easily digestible food will help relieve the baby's vomiting symptoms. In severe cases, oral digestive drugs can be used for treatment. Coughs can be treated with oral cough suppressants. If there is no effect, timely infusion or nebulization inhalation treatment should be given to avoid chronic bronchitis.

When your baby is coughing and vomiting, parents should take the following care measures:

1. When a child vomits, place him or her on the bed and let him or her lie quietly. Place a basin beside the bed to prevent the child from vomiting again. Pay attention to the vomiting situation, the relationship between vomiting and diet and coughing, the number of vomiting, the vomited stomach contents, etc.

2. Let the baby sit up and turn his head to one side to prevent vomit from entering the trachea. After vomiting, rinse your mouth with warm water to clean your mouth and remove bad odor in your mouth. You can clean the mouth by feeding water frequently.

3. Feed water frequently and allow the baby to drink small amounts frequently to ensure water supply. Give your child some light salt water or sugar water every 10-15 minutes. The water temperature should be hot in winter and cool in summer. Pay attention to whether the skin on your child's hands is dry to prevent dehydration.

4. Don’t rush to feed your child when he or she is vomiting, otherwise it will only aggravate the vomiting. Pay attention to your diet, don't eat too much, and try to eat small meals frequently. Do not eat greasy, spicy or sour foods to avoid irritating the stomach and intestines. After vomiting, you should first eat liquid food or semi-liquid food (such as rice porridge or noodles), and gradually transition to a normal diet.

5. Try to rest in bed and avoid changing your body position frequently, otherwise it will easily cause vomiting again. When vomiting is severe, the child should be held up or let the baby sit up. This will not only make the child feel more comfortable, but more importantly, there is no need to worry about the child's vomited food choking into the trachea and blocking the respiratory tract.

6. When children vomit, their clothes and sheets often get dirty. Be sure to change them frequently. If there is any odor left, it will more easily induce vomiting in children.

From the above, we can see that most babies' coughing and vomiting are related to indigestion caused by their diet. At this time, what we need to do is to actively care for the sick children. At the same time, when children have symptoms of coughing and vomiting, find out the causes of these symptoms as soon as possible and take measures to prevent them.