How to improve children's cold and cough

Cold is a very common disease. Medicine is the best choice for treating cold. However, if the cold is serious, it can also cause symptoms such as cough and fever. Therefore, in the process of treating cold, these symptoms should be prevented and avoided in the body. Otherwise, the treatment of cold will become very complicated. What should I do if the cold and cough don’t go away? There are some ways to improve it. The following is a detailed introduction.

Methods to improve children's cold and cough:

1. Live a regular life, ensure enough rest time, and do not go to public places with polluted air and large flow of people, such as supermarkets.

2. Eat light and easily digestible food, avoid fried, greasy food, puffed food and cold drinks. The food temperature should be appropriate, not too hot, because children with colds often have sore throats. Warm food can reduce irritation to the throat. When a child has a poor appetite, parents do not need to force him or her to eat. Instead, they can adopt the method of eating small meals frequently to increase the intake of vitamin C. When your baby has a cough, he should eat less healthy foods such as vegetables, crabs, and persimmons. If your baby is in the early stages of a cough, you can feed him some pears stewed with rock sugar. If you have a long cough and cough up white phlegm, it is not recommended to stew pears with rock sugar, but you can eat some radishes.

3. If the child has a lot of clear mucus, you can use a soft handkerchief or bib, wet it with warm water, and gently wipe away the mucus; at the same time, increase the number of times you apply facial cream, because frequent scrubbing and cold wind can easily cause abrasions or cracks on the baby's skin. After the child falls asleep at night, parents can apply some Vaseline. After a night of moisturizing, the child's skin can be repaired a lot. If the mucus is yellow and sticky, you should use a soft cotton swab to roll out the mucus in the nasal cavity when the baby cooperates, so as to avoid nasal congestion caused by excessive mucus. If you have a stuffy nose, you can cover your nostrils with a hot towel for a while, and then wipe away the snot when your nose is unblocked.

After understanding the methods to improve children's colds and coughs, you can follow the above methods when your child has a cold. However, you should pay attention to the selection of medicines for children's colds. It must be suitable for children, otherwise it will easily cause harm to the child's body. Parents should also pay attention to this. Medicine selection cannot be made at will.