What to do if your baby has a runny nose after catching a cold

In daily life, we often encounter colds and runny noses, and such things also happen to babies. Due to their insufficient resistance, such things will occur. This is a very common thing. What we need to do is to observe the baby's condition in time. This is very good and is also beneficial to the baby's health.

At the beginning of a cold, you will have clear nasal discharge, but later on you may have thicker nasal discharge, and may also be accompanied by some coughing, which may last for about 7-10 days. This child's illness course is relatively long. In addition to clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, we also need to look at the child's diet and urination and defecation. If the child's stool is relatively dry, there may still be some internal heat and food accumulation. You can use some spleen-strengthening and lung-heat-clearing medicine, such as Tongrentang's Xiaoer Huashi Pills. If you have thick nasal discharge, you can use some rhinitis clearing medicine.

The nasal mucosa of children has more blood vessels than that of adults, and the secretions are more. In addition, the nervous system's regulatory function on nasal mucosal secretion and ciliary movement is not yet fully developed, and children are not good at wiping their noses by themselves, so they often have clear nasal discharge. This is a normal physiological phenomenon and there is no need to worry.

If there are two lines of snot hanging under the child's nostrils all day long or yellow-green purulent snot flows out, it is a sign of illness. People who have yellow-green, purulent nasal discharge for a long time may suffer from sinusitis. Frequent runny nose may be caused by a lack of vitamin A and vitamin B, and treatment with these two vitamins can be effective. Allergies to inhaled dust can cause a large amount of clear nasal discharge within a short period of time. A small number of children with foreign objects in their nasal cavity may also have a runny nose frequently.

Some children with nasopharyngeal lymphadenopathy also often have a runny nose, but they also have symptoms such as severe snoring, dull facial expression, and a flat nose, which can seriously affect their development and posture and should be treated in a timely manner.

In short, children with runny nose should be treated accordingly according to the cause. Strengthening cold-resistance exercises, letting children go outdoors more often, keeping the air fresh, and proper nutrition can all help prevent runny noses in children.

Principles and requirements of dietary treatment for children with colds

1. The diet should be light, soft and thin: Since the spleen and stomach functions of patients with colds are often affected, light, soft and thin foods are easy to digest and absorb, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat liquid or liquid foods such as white rice porridge, milk, cornmeal porridge, rice soup, soft noodles, egg soup, lotus root powder paste, almond powder paste, etc.

2. Drink more boiled water: People with colds often have fever and sweat, and lose a lot of water in the body. Drinking plenty of water can enhance blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and dissipate body temperature in a timely manner. Therefore, for people with colds who do not have stomach problems, drinking light green tea will have better effects. Tea has a good diuretic effect, and it also has the effects of sweating and stomachic strengthening, and can also clear away internal heat.

3. Eat more fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables can promote appetite, help digestion, replenish a large amount of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and make up for the insufficient energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. For wind-cold colds, you can eat more ginger, green onion, coriander, etc.; for wind-heat colds, you should eat more rapeseed, amaranth, water spinach, spinach, etc.; for summer-heat colds, you should eat more wild rice stem, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, etc.; when the evil heat is slightly calmer, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus root, citrus, apples, apricots, loquats, sugarcane, water chestnuts, etc.

4. Avoid irregular diet: Food, like medicine, has the properties of "four qi" and "five flavors". Different types of colds should use different foods. If you eat it casually and have an irregular diet, it will not only be detrimental to your cold, but will also make it protracted and difficult to cure. For example, if you have a cold caused by wind and cold, you should avoid eating raw or cold fruits and drinks, because the coldness of the food will cause the mucous membrane and blood vessels to contract, aggravating symptoms such as nasal congestion and sore throat. During the fever period of a wind-heat cold, you should avoid eating greasy, meaty and sweet foods, because these foods can hinder the functioning of the spleen and stomach, produce phlegm and dampness, and cause coughing and sputum, which is not good for people with a cold and sluggish spleen and stomach. Therefore, you should avoid eating big fish and meat, glutinous rice sweets, and fried cakes. During the recovery period of a wind-heat cold, you should also avoid eating spicy and hot foods such as chili peppers, dog meat, and mutton, so as to avoid damaging the qi and burning the body fluids, and helping fire to produce phlegm. In addition to avoiding greasy food, people with summer-heat and dampness colds should also avoid overly salty food such as pickles and salted hairtail, because excessive salt will condense dampness and produce phlegm, which will irritate the trachea and cause the cough to worsen, which is not conducive to recovery from the cold.

The above is about the problem of babies having a runny nose after catching a cold. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. In our lives, babies’ resistance is insufficient and they will catch colds. We must pay enough attention to it so that we can protect our babies in daily life and make them have a healthy body. This is very important. Let’s take good care of our babies.