What to do if your baby coughs in the morning

The baby started coughing after waking up. It was normal yesterday, but it became particularly serious today. I am still very nervous. Coughing is not a minor illness. The most worrying thing is that the baby will develop pneumonia, which will have a certain impact on his physical health. After going to the hospital, the doctor gave some suggestions. Let us understand what to do if the baby coughs in the morning.

Cough is the most common symptom of respiratory diseases, especially in infants and young children who often cough due to repeated infections. Older children may not be able to be cured for two or three months due to mycoplasma infection or allergic cough. I have taken a lot of anti-inflammatory drugs, cough syrups, and Chinese patent medicines, but my cough is still sometimes mild and sometimes severe and cannot be completely cured. Cough is a common disease in pediatric outpatient clinics. Some cough suppressants and expectorants are often used. If it is caused by respiratory tract inflammation accompanied by fever, some anti-inflammatory drugs can also be added, such as amoxicillin, cefotaxime, erythromycin and the like. Most of them can be cured. If you add some Chinese patent medicines such as Dongsheng Cough Relief, Children's Lung Clearing Oral Liquid, and Tan Ling... to clear the lungs and reduce phlegm, the treatment effect may be improved. During treatment, do not buy strong cough suppressants at the pharmacy yourself, especially for babies under 2 years old. They should not take centrally acting cough suppressants containing codeine. There is no specific medicine for treating cough, so do not rush to stop the cough.

Many parents are willing to find a Chinese medicine doctor and let their children take Chinese medicine (decoctions) to treat coughs. Although taking Chinese medicine is a bit troublesome, it has no side effects and the effect is very good. There are many Chinese medicines such as Peucedanum chinense, Apricot kernel, Platycodon grandiflorum, Stemona bulb, and Radix Scutellariae that have antitussive effects. Doctors can also flexibly add or subtract medications according to each baby's different conditions. Children can take Chinese medicine in small amounts and multiple times. Decoction 100 ml per day (it can also be concentrated further) and take it in two or three times. Traditional Chinese medicine can roughly divide the treatment of cough into three situations. 1. Lung-clearing and cough-relieving method: used for the early stages of cough, which is often accompanied by symptoms such as heat dissipation, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, itchy throat, irritating cough, and a small amount of white sputum. Most of these are coughs caused by colds. In addition to the cough suppressants such as Peucedanum praeparata, Apricot kernel, and Platycodon grandiflorum, add diaphoretic and antipyretic drugs such as Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Saposhnikovia divaricata, and mint. For children with fever, add gypsum, scutellaria baicalensis, isatis root, etc. to traditional Chinese medicine. 2. Lung clearing and phlegm reduction method: used for the second or third week of onset, with symptoms of cough, yellow phlegm, runny yellow nose, children being irritable, crying, thirsty, and having dry stools. Most coughs are caused by tracheitis or pneumonia. Add lung-clearing medicines such as Morus alba bark, Phellodendron chinense, and Houttuynia cordata to the cough suppressants Stemona radix, Aster ternata, and Radix Phellodendri. This should be accompanied by the addition of expectorant drugs such as motherwort, bamboo juice, orange peel, and scutellaria baicalensis.

3. Nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs or strengthening the spleen and benefiting the lungs: These are two commonly used methods in traditional Chinese medicine to treat recurring coughs. If you have been coughing for several weeks and the condition has not improved, due to lung heat damaging the yin, dry cough with little sputum, dry and sore throat, poor appetite, and dry stool, you should use Adenophora stellaria, Ophiopogon japonicus, Scrophularia ningpoensis, and Polygonatum odoratum to nourish the lung yin, and add lung moisturizing medicines such as lily, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, loquat leaf, and Aster tataricus. Some babies are usually weak and sweat a lot, have yellow and white complexion, cough that is sometimes light and sometimes heavy, catch colds frequently, have poor appetite, and have unformed stools. These are symptoms of spleen and stomach disharmony and spleen and lung deficiency. The method of strengthening the spleen and lungs should be adopted, using Pseudostellaria baicalensis, Citrus aurantium, Poria cocos, and Pinellia ternata. If the condition is severe, add Astragalus membranaceus. Yupingfeng Granules for Chinese patent medicine. It can enhance physical fitness and improve the baby's disease resistance.

The above are the treatment methods for baby’s morning cough. Your baby's cough must not be ignored. Don't think that simply drinking more water can solve the problem of your baby's cough. This is incorrect. Your baby's cough may also be due to a lack of certain nutrients in the body. Therefore, to treat your baby's cough, you must seek a more reasonable and scientific treatment method. Don't let momentary negligence lead to more serious consequences.