What should I do if my child coughs badly in the middle of the night?

If a child coughs in the second half of the night, several factors should be considered. The first is the cold factor, especially in the autumn and winter seasons, when the temperature is relatively low at night. Children are prone to coughing due to the drop in temperature. In addition, allergies should be considered. It is possible that the child has a fever when sleeping at night, which makes it more likely to have allergies and then cough. Therefore, the cause of the child's cough should be addressed in a targeted manner. Parents can try the following solutions.

What should I do if my child coughs in the middle of the night?

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.

5. If the baby does not cough when asleep, but only when feeding, and he must cough out milk, after feeding, wipe the child's back with a dry towel (if there is sweat), be gentle, and then put another dry towel under the child, hold the child with his head slightly tilted upwards, and then pat the back gently for about ten minutes (it is best to walk around while patting). After waiting for another hour, rub the child's back to warm it up (rub your hands to warm them up first, then rub the child's spine - between the shoulder blades, and rub the back with full energy until the child's back does not hurt and is warm again).

6. Diet therapy: Do not eat sweets such as candy and biscuits. Cold, dry, and irritating foods such as peanuts, melon seeds, fried foods, etc. should also be prohibited. Drink more warm water and hold it in your mouth, which also has a good cough-relieving effect.

Pears stewed with rock sugar: Peel the fresh pears, split them in half and remove the cores. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and steam them in a pot until soft.