How to care for your baby with bronchitis

In fact, in the process of taking care of the baby, the specific arrangements for nursing care for healthy babies and sick babies are also different. This is because some diseases have strict requirements for the preparation of nursing matters, and the baby's bronchitis symptoms may be aggravated due to improper care. Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Keep warm: Temperature changes, especially cold stimulation can reduce the local resistance of the bronchial mucosa and aggravate bronchitis. Therefore, parents should add or remove clothes for the children in time according to the temperature changes, especially cover the children with quilts when sleeping to keep the body temperature above 36.5℃.

2. Feed more water: Children with bronchitis will have varying degrees of fever, and water evaporation is large, so you should pay attention to feeding the children more water. It can be supplemented with sugar water or sugar and salt water, or with rice soup or egg soup. The diet is mainly semi-liquid to increase the water content in the body and meet the body's needs.

3. Adequate nutrition: When children suffer from bronchitis, they consume a lot of nutrients. In addition, fever and bacterial toxins affect gastrointestinal function and cause poor digestion and absorption. Therefore, nutritional deficiencies in the children's bodies cannot be ignored. In this regard, parents should adopt the method of small meals and frequent meals for their children, and provide them with light, nutritious, balanced and easily digestible semi-liquid or liquid diets, such as porridge, cooked noodles, egg custard, fresh vegetables, fruit juice, etc.

4. Turn over and pat the back: When the child coughs and expectorates, it indicates that the secretions in the bronchial tubes have increased. In order to promote the smooth discharge of secretions, nebulizer inhalation can be used to help expectorate, 2-3 times a day, each time for 5-20 minutes. If it is an infant, in addition to patting the back, you should also help the child turn over once every 1-2 hours, so that the child remains in a semi-recumbent position to facilitate the discharge of phlegm.

5. Reduce fever: Children with bronchitis usually have a low-to-moderate fever. If the body temperature is below 38.5℃, there is generally no need to give antipyretics. The treatment should focus on the cause of the disease to solve the problem fundamentally. If the body temperature is high, older children can be cooled physically, such as by applying a cold towel to the head or bathing with warm water. However, this method is not suitable for young children, and medication should be used to reduce the temperature if necessary.

How to care for a baby with bronchitis? In fact, the five measures mentioned in the article, including keeping warm, feeding plenty of water, adequate nutrition, turning over and patting the back, and reducing fever, are care from all aspects of the life of baby bronchitis patients. Therefore, parents must not take the care of their baby's bronchitis symptoms lightly.