What to do if your seven-month-old baby has a dry cough

Babies have a relatively weak constitution, so they often suffer from various diseases. Coughing is a disease that babies are prone to. Once the child starts coughing, the parents' heartbeat will often speed up. What should we do if the baby is seven months old and keeps having a dry cough? Next, let us learn about the countermeasures for children's dry cough.

From a medical point of view, coughing is a normal physiological defense reflex and the only way for the human body to clear respiratory mucus. Children under 3 years old have poor cough reflex and phlegm is not easy to expel. If parents give their children stronger cough suppressants as soon as 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.

·Life care

1. Encourage your children to get more rest. When sleeping, you can use several pillows to support your child's back and head to prevent the secreted mucus from dripping into his throat. The baby can put a pillow under the mattress for the head;

2. Provide children with a smoke-free environment, pay attention to maintaining indoor air circulation, and avoid stimulation from gas, dust, and smoke;

3. Do not bathe your child when he is sick, because bathing will increase blood circulation, which is not good for rest and will cause the child to catch a cold again. Children with a lot of phlegm will have more secretions if they take a bath. They can only take a bath before going to bed after a week of illness, when they have a slight cough in the morning, have a good appetite, can play, and have no fever. If they sleep well, they can take a bath every other day.

4. Reduce the time of outdoor activities and avoid going to crowded public places;

5. For children who have repeated coughing and illness, they should strengthen their physical exercise to enhance their disease resistance;

6. Pay attention to weather changes, pay attention to temperature, and add or remove clothes in time.

Diet care

1. Provide children with delicious, light and nutritious food;

2. Eat less salty, sour, spicy and other strong-tasting foods;

3. Give warm food, noodles and soup are good;

4. Do not eat cold food or drink, and stay away from ice cream, popsicles, and soda.

5. In addition, when coughing, the rapid airflow takes away moisture from the respiratory mucosa, and inflammation causes dehydration of the mucosa. Therefore, parents should pay attention to letting their children drink more water and eat more fruits.

6. If the child's cough occurs suddenly, be alert to whether he has choked on something and encourage him to cough out the foreign object. Otherwise, seek medical attention immediately, every second counts.

If a seven-month-old baby keeps having a dry cough, parents must pay more attention to it. We must start from these two aspects: children's daily care and dietary care. Never feed your baby cold food. Let your baby eat more warm food such as noodles, soup, etc. If your baby's dry cough does not get better, you should immediately go to a regular hospital for a relevant examination.