What should I do if my baby coughs and vomits while sleeping?

For new mothers, the most feared thing is that their babies will become unwell, especially emergency situations such as fever and cough. Not even a minute can be wasted. If this happens in the middle of the night, how should they deal with it urgently? I think many parents would also like to know some emergency measures to deal with their baby’s physical discomfort at night. Today we will specifically introduce how to deal with it if your baby has symptoms of coughing and vomiting while sleeping in the middle of the night. Hopefully it will help new moms deal with emergencies. Help your baby relieve pain.

Keep your baby's head elevated at night. If your baby keeps coughing while sleeping, you can raise his head and the coughing symptoms will be relieved. Elevating the head is helpful for most coughs caused by infections, because when lying flat, the baby's nasal secretions can easily flow down the throat, causing throat itching and causing the cough to worsen at night. Elevating the head can reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. You should also change your sleeping position frequently, preferably alternating between the left and right sides, which is conducive to the discharge of respiratory secretions.

2) Hot drink cough relief method. Drinking more warm drinks can make the baby's sticky phlegm thinner, relieve the tension of the respiratory mucosa, and promote coughing up phlegm. It is best to let your baby drink warm water or warm milk, rice soup, etc. You can also give your baby fresh fruit juice. The fruit juice should be less irritating such as apple juice and pear juice. It is not advisable to drink citrus juice such as orange juice and grapefruit juice.

3) External application of Chinese medicine. Some relatively safe and effective methods of external application of Chinese medicine can be used. Because many infants and young children are prone to vomiting when taking medicine for cough treatment at home due to their physiological reasons, making it difficult to feed the medicine, some external medicines can be used at this time to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

We hope that our introduction today will help new mothers deal with emergencies such as their baby coughing and vomiting in the middle of the night. The baby's body is very fragile and his immunity is relatively low. Therefore, respiratory problems often occur. Once this happens, careful care and timely treatment are required according to the baby's specific situation to avoid wasting time and causing the baby's condition to worsen.