What should I do if my baby has a cold and spits up milk?

Many babies will spit up milk when they have a cold, which often makes parents worried. What causes the baby to spit up milk when he has a cold? What should you do if your baby spit up milk? The doctor answered this question for us through the following content. If you want to know the answer, let’s take a look with me.

Common types of baby colds and coughs include wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. The key to treating a baby’s cold and cough is to “nourish” it. It is best to relieve the baby’s symptoms through diet therapy. You can feed your baby pears. Pears have the effect of treating coughs. Pear skin, pear flowers, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, and have good effects of clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. Tremella, pear and rock sugar water is also very effective. Tremella has the effect of invigorating qi and clearing the intestines, while rock sugar nourishes the middle and replenishes qi, harmonizes the stomach and moistens the lungs, and relieves cough and reduces phlegm. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa, because the pear itself has the effect of moistening the lungs, and Fritillaria cirrhosa has the effect of relieving cough. Generally, after taking it once or twice, the cough will be basically cured.

If you choose to give your baby medicine, parents must first figure out what kind of cough the baby has. The symptoms of wind-cold cough are nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, phlegm in the throat, and a thin white tongue coating. Chinese medicine can use Qingxuan cough-relieving granules, Xiaoqinglong granules, Chaihuyin granules, etc. Western medicine options include pediatric acetaminophen sulfonamine, Chengong Zaixin, and Xiaobai syrup. The general symptoms of wind-heat cough are yellow and thick sputum, small amount, hoarseness, often accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, and thin yellow tongue coating. The Chinese herbal medicines for treatment include Children's Cold Relief Syrup, Hulu Powder, Children's Baotaikang Granules, and Children's Resusuqing Oral Liquid. Western medicine options include Tylenol Cold Syrup, Pediatric Baifuning, and Motrin Syrup, etc.

In addition, keep the air in the room fresh, exhaust kitchen fumes, do not smoke in the house, and open windows regularly for ventilation. To keep the indoor air moist, you can use an air humidifier. Add or remove clothes and quilts for your baby in time. Do not cover your baby too thickly or wrap him too tightly, otherwise it will cause poor regulation ability and low resistance of the body.

In short, "three parts treatment, seven parts care". Be patient in treating your baby's cold, cough and vomiting, and take more precautions in daily life.

The above content is the doctor’s answer to the question of what to do if the baby has a cold and vomits. Do parents have a better understanding of this content after reading it? Finally, I would like to remind everyone that if the baby’s condition is serious, you must take the baby to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. Our hospital has authoritative experts in this field, and everyone is welcome to come for consultation at any time.