9 month old baby coughs with phlegm

For babies who keep coughing at night, parents don’t know how to use medicine, and can’t use medicine casually, but it’s not convenient to go to the hospital at this time. The best, safest and most effective way to stop cough is pediatric massage to stop cough. The specific operation method is as follows:

(1) Clear and nourish the spleen: 500 times in 5 minutes. Position: on the outer edge of the baby’s thumb. Technique: Use the side of your thumb or the tip of your finger to push in a straight line on the acupuncture point. Function: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, eliminates stagnation and relieves stagnation.

(2) Clearing the Lung Meridian: 500 times in 5 minutes. Position: From the base to the tip of the baby’s ring finger. Technique: Use the side of your thumb or the tip of your finger to push in a straight line on the acupuncture point. Function: Clear away heat and relieve exterior symptoms, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

(3) Internal Movement of Bagua: 500 times in 5 minutes. Position: On the palm of the baby's hand, draw a circle with the palm (Laogong point) as the center and the intersection of the inner 2/3 and outer 1/3 as the radius. The Bagua point is on this circle. Technique: The parent holds the baby's four fingers except the thumb with his left hand, and pushes the baby's Bagua acupoints in a circular motion with his right hand. Function: It can promote the circulation of stagnant food, relieve chest tightness and relieve diaphragm, regulate qi and resolve phlegm.

(4) Qing Tian He Shui: 500 times in 5 minutes. Position: On the inner side of the forearm, the midpoint of the palmar crease and the elbow crease (from the main tendon to Hong Chi) is in a straight line. Technique: Push from the baby's wrist to the elbow. Function: Clears away heat, relieves exterior symptoms, purges fire and relieves restlessness.

(5) Massage Tanzhong: 150 times. Position: midline of baby’s chest, midpoint of the line connecting the two nipples. Technique: divided into kneading method and pushing method. Rub with the tips of your middle fingers for about 50 to 100 times; push with the soles of your thumbs from the Tanzhong point outwards for about 50 to 100 times. Function: Regulate qi and relieve gas, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

(6) Massage the lung point: 150 times. Location: 1.5 inches lateral to the spinous process of the baby’s third thoracic vertebra. Technique: Place the tips of both thumbs on the Feishu point, gradually press down with force, press and rub it, so that the affected area feels sour, numb, swollen and heavy. Then place the thenar eminence close to the acupoint, press down with a little force, and rub the acupoint back and forth until you feel a local heat sensation and the skin turns slightly red. Then gently knead and massage to relax. Repeat this operation for 5 to 10 minutes, once a day or every other day. Function: Clear the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and calm asthma.

(7) Massage Tiantu: 1 minute. Position: at the upper edge of the baby’s sternal notch, in the middle of the depression. Technique: Use your thumb to gently rub Tiantu. Function: Regulate Qi and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma, reduce adverse effects and stop vomiting.

(8) Push the shoulder blades apart: 150 times. Position: inner edge of the baby’s shoulder blade suture. Technique: Use both hands to make a crescent shape along the joints of both shoulder blades and push from top to bottom. Function: Regulate Qi and smooth the flow of Qi, calm asthma, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

(9) Press and rub Zusanli: 1-2 minutes. Location: 3 inches below the kneecap on the outside of the baby's kneecap, one horizontal finger (middle finger) away from the front edge of the tibia, press the depression. There is one point on each leg. To locate the acupoint, parents use the tips of their thumbs to push upward along the outer edge of the tibia at the lower end of the baby's calf. When they reach the protruding inclined bone and cannot push any further, the acupoint is one horizontal finger away from where the tip of the thumb is pointing. Technique: Place your left and right hands on the Zusanli acupoint on the same side and massage with a strength that is tolerable, combining massage and kneading. Function: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, regulates Qi and blood.

(10) Pinching the spine: 10 times. Position: baby’s back spine. Technique: Use the thumbs, index and middle fingers of both hands to pinch the skin along both sides of the spine from the coccyx to the big vertebra, and twist with both hands alternately to push forward. Effect: Loss of appetite, indigestion, regulating the spleen and stomach.

(11) Push the small horizontal lines: 100 times. Position: The horizontal lines at the junction of the baby’s little finger and palm. Technique: Press and rub this area with your thumb nail. Function: Expectorant and cough relieving.

Steam + back patting to relieve cough

If a baby keeps coughing in the middle of the night, patting the back is usually used. This can not only loosen the phlegm in the child's lungs and bronchi, drain it into the trachea and discharge it, but also promote blood circulation in the heart and lungs, which is beneficial to the absorption of bronchial inflammation and allows the disease to heal as soon as possible. In order to help clear the phlegm better, we first need to inhale the steam to help loosen the phlegm and make it easier to clear it out.

practice

1. Pour boiling water into a large can or teacup, hold the baby, and place his mouth and nose facing the rising steam and inhale and exhale. This can dilute the phlegm and make it easier to cough it out by patting the back.

2. Pick up the baby, let the baby's head rest on the parent's shoulders, and then pat the baby's back with your empty fists. 3. The force of the patting should not be too strong. It should be done from top to bottom, in sequence, for 3-5 minutes each time, and 2-3 times a day.