What causes a 4-month-old baby to cough and have phlegm?

Not only adults will catch a cold if they inhale bad air in their daily lives. Children, too, will easily catch a cold due to air environmental problems because their bodies are not well developed right after birth and their immunity is already low. For example, a 4-month-old baby may cough and have phlegm.

Parents are always worried when they hear their children coughing. As the weather gets colder, babies are more susceptible to respiratory infections, which often cause coughing. What should parents do when their baby coughs? Identification and treatment of four types of baby cough

In fact, from a medical point of view, coughing is a normal physiological defense reflex that helps clear mucus from the respiratory tract. Children under 3 years old have poor cough reflex and phlegm is not easy to expel. If parents give their children stronger cough suppressants when they see them coughing, the cough will stop temporarily, but the phlegm cannot be expelled smoothly and accumulates in the trachea and bronchi, causing tracheal obstruction. In addition, children may cough gently when they wake up in the morning. This is a physiological phenomenon. It is just clearing the mucus accumulated in the respiratory tract at night. Parents do not need to worry.

Therefore, parents must observe and listen carefully to their baby's cough to identify the disease. Cough symptom 1: Coughing with phlegm, not accompanied by wheezing or rapid breathing, and coughing at any time of day or night. Other symptoms: drowsiness, runny nose, watery eyes, and a mild fever (usually no higher than 38.6°C).

The culprit: The common cold, a viral infection of the nose, sinuses, throat and main airways of the lungs. Usually the coughing symptoms will last throughout the entire cold process (about 7-10 days), but sometimes the coughing duration will be longer (about half a month to 20 days). Treatment: Try to keep your child's nasal cavity clean. Nasal congestion or runny nose will aggravate cough symptoms. For infants and young children who cannot blow their noses, parents can use a ball-type nasal aspirator to help their children clear their nasal cavity. If your child's cough and nasal congestion symptoms persist for several days and do not improve, you should take your child to see a doctor. He could have sinusitis (a bacterial infection caused by a cold) or some other condition, such as asthma, allergies, pneumonia, or swollen lymph nodes.

In the above article, we learned that a 4-month-old baby has a cough and phlegm. For each person’s physical reasons, some methods can be chosen for treatment. When the mother breastfeeds the child, the symptoms may be transmitted to the child through her own reasons.