What to do if your child coughs at night

Nowadays, each family usually has only one child, so parents will pay special attention to their children, fearing that their children will get sick. Even so, some minor abnormalities in the child's body cannot be avoided. Some children will have symptoms such as coughing at night. Let us take a detailed look at what to do if a young child coughs at night!

1. Rest and keep warm. Children should reduce activities, increase rest time, and slightly raise the head and chest when lying in bed to allow unobstructed breathing. Keep the indoor air fresh, maintain appropriate temperature and humidity, and avoid convection wind.

2. Ensure adequate water and nutrition supply. Encourage children to drink more water and supplement it intravenously when necessary. Provide easily digestible and nutritious food, and it is advisable to eat liquid or semi-liquid food during fever.

3. Keep the oral cavity clean. Because the child has fever, cough, and has a lot of thick sputum, severe coughing may cause vomiting, so it is necessary to maintain oral hygiene to increase comfort, improve appetite, and promote the excretion of toxins. Infants and young children can be fed an appropriate amount of boiled water after eating to clean their mouths. Older children should rinse their mouths in the morning, after meals, and before going to bed.

4. Fever care: No special treatment is required if the fever is not high. In case of high fever, physical cooling or drug cooling measures should be taken to prevent convulsions.

5. Observe the nature of respiratory secretions and whether sputum can be effectively coughed up; guide and encourage children to cough effectively; if sputum is thick, the humidity in the ward can be appropriately increased, and the indoor temperature should be maintained at around 60% to humidify the air and dilute the secretions. Ultrasonic nebulization inhalation or steam inhalation can also be used; for children who cannot cough effectively, it is advisable to change body positions frequently and pat their backs to facilitate the discharge of respiratory secretions and promote the dissipation of inflammation; if there are a lot of secretions that affect breathing, use a suction device to clear sputum in time and keep the airway open. Oxygen inhalation can be given to those with cough and asthma symptoms.

6. Health education: Strengthen nutrition, carry out appropriate outdoor activities, and perform physical exercises to enhance the body's ability to adapt to temperature changes. Add or remove clothes according to temperature changes to avoid catching cold or overheating. During the epidemic of respiratory diseases, do not let children go to public places to avoid cross infection. Actively prevent malnutrition, rickets, anemia and various infectious diseases, get vaccinated on time, and enhance the body's immune capacity. The first step in treating a cough is to determine whether the disease that causes the cough is serious.

The above are the solutions to young children's night coughing. You must ensure that your children have a better sleeping environment so that they can sleep more comfortably. Secondly, let your children develop good living habits, drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables, which can improve their own immunity.