Precautions for infants with cold and vomiting

Parents should be careful about their children's low immunity. This can be ignored, especially when the child catches a cold. Many parents are at a loss because the child is too small. Parents will worry that they will not be able to take good care of the child. So at this time, what should the baby do if he catches a cold and vomits at the airport?

1. Maintain open airways

When vomiting is severe, vomitus may spray out of the nasal cavity. Parents need to immediately clear the foreign objects in the nasal cavity to keep the respiratory tract open. If vomiting occurs when the baby is standing upright or lying in bed, you can first let the baby lean forward or maintain a side-lying position to allow the vomit to flow out easily and prevent the baby from inhaling vomit, thereby avoiding suffocation or aspiration pneumonia.

2. Keep your mouth clean

After vomiting, some stomach acid, digested, and undigested food residues will remain in the mouth. The unpleasant taste will make the baby more uncomfortable. So for younger babies, parents can clean their mouths with wet gauze and boiled water; for older babies, they can rinse their mouths with warm boiled water to keep their mouths clean.

3. Fast briefly, then eat a light meal

Often parents panic when they see their children vomiting, and feel sorry for the children, so when the vomiting stops, they rush to feed them, which results in a second wave of vomiting (they may vomit more than they eat!). In fact, the best way to deal with vomiting is to temporarily fast for four to six hours, including not drinking water or milk, and wait for the vomiting reaction to pass. During this period, if the baby cries for water, you can moisten his mouth with a cotton swab dipped in water. For older babies, you can give him a lollipop.

When the symptoms improve and the baby is more comfortable, give the baby several small amounts of electrolyte solution (sports drinks can be used instead, but if diarrhea occurs at the same time, the sports drinks should be diluted before drinking). If there is no obvious nausea, vomiting, or abdominal distension, light food (such as porridge, dry rice, white bread, steamed buns) can be given again, but dairy products and greasy foods (such foods can cause bloating or nausea) should be avoided for two to three days.

In the above article, we learned about babies vomiting due to colds. First of all, parents should pay attention to this phenomenon in daily life. Do not feed the children too much, and do not let the children eat too much. Especially after taking medicine, be sure to pat the child's back to relax the child's internal organs.