What should I do if my baby has a stuffy nose and coughs?

The baby's stuffy nose and cough should be caused by a cold. Not only babies will have stuffy noses and coughs when they have a cold, but adults will also have this problem. It is very painful for the baby when this happens. After all, the baby is a child and his physical resistance is very poor. So what should you do if the baby has a blocked nose and cough? Let’s take a look below.

When children catch a cold, it is key to distinguish between cold and heat - Chinese patent medicine for internal and external treatment of wind-cold and wind-heat colds in children. Children do not know the kindness of their parents unless they raise them. I am afraid that everyone can only feel the love of their parents when they become parents themselves. Infants and young children are in the initial stage of development and have weak resistance, so it is common for them to catch a cold or fever. The child is young and only knows how to cry and make a fuss. Parents have no experience and often don’t know where to start.

If your baby catches a cold easily, never give him any medicine casually. First, make sure whether the child has a cold caused by wind-cold or wind-heat.

Originally, colds caused by wind and cold are more common in cold seasons such as autumn and winter, while colds caused by wind and heat are more common in warm seasons such as spring and summer. However, now we have air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter. Moreover, babies have a purely yang body, so wind and cold can enter and turn into heat. Therefore, it is not accurate to simply classify them by seasons. You need to observe your child carefully according to the following methods.

How to distinguish between wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold

Both wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds may cause symptoms such as stopping eating and breastfeeding, fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough with sputum, convulsions, etc. in children, which are generally difficult for parents to distinguish. Here are a few tips:

1. Check whether the runny nose is clear or turbid. Clear nasal discharge is caused by wind-cold, while turbid nasal discharge is caused by wind-heat.

2. Check if there is redness and swelling in the throat. If there is no redness and swelling in the throat, it is wind-cold, and if there is redness and swelling in the throat, it is wind-heat.

3. Look at the sputum and tongue coating, white one is wind-cold, yellow one is wind-heat.

4. Sometimes the above symptoms for distinguishing between cold and heat may not be very obvious, so it depends on whether the child wants to drink water. If you are thirsty and like to drink hot drinks, or are thirsty but don’t want to drink water, it is wind-cold; if you like to drink cold drinks, it is wind-heat.

Even if you go to the hospital, general Chinese medicine practitioners will probably only use these few tricks to distinguish. If you remember them, you can become your child's Chinese medicine doctor.

Xiaoer Zhibao Pills for colds

After observation, if you are sure that your child has a cold caused by wind and cold, you can give your child Xiaoer Zhibao Pills.

Xiaoer Zhibao Pills is a famous old medicine made from 25 Chinese medicinal herbs including perilla leaves, patchouli, angelica dahurica, hawthorn (fried), Liushenqu (fried), betel nut, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Arisaema consanguineum, tangerine peel, white mustard (fried), silkworm (fried), bezoar, and realgar. Among them, perilla leaves, mint, etc. can dispel wind and cold, hawthorn, Liushenqu, malt, etc. can help digestion and relieve stagnation, Sichuan Fritillaria, white mustard seeds, etc. can relieve cough and resolve cold phlegm, and there are gastrodia elata, Uncaria rhynchophylla, amber, bezoar, etc. to calm the wind and soothe the nerves. It provides very comprehensive care for children's colds.

In addition, you can also choose Xiaoer Qingganling Tablets, which is used to treat symptoms such as fever, chills, no sweating, headache, cough and sputum caused by exogenous wind and cold, and the effect is also very good.

Some people also use Xiaoer Zhibao Pills for children's wind-heat colds, especially those accompanied by convulsions (because this medicine has a good effect of reducing fever, calming wind and stopping convulsions). However, because it contains so-called "toxic" drugs such as cinnabar and realgar, it should not be taken for a long time.

In fact, all medicines were originally called poisons, and they are all used to fight poison with poison. As long as they are not taken for a long time, there will be no harm. In fact, many classic Chinese medicines for treating children's colds contain cinnabar.

The above methods can all solve the problem of our baby's nasal congestion and cough. We parents and friends must learn them, so that we can better and faster help our babies stay away from the pain of nasal congestion and cough. We should let the baby exercise more and enhance immunity, so that they can stay away from diseases.