What to do if your two and a half year old baby has a dry cough

What to do if your two and a half year old baby has a dry cough

If a two-and-a-half-year-old baby has a dry cough, parents should understand the specific reasons. It is likely related to upper respiratory tract infection. Common ones include colds, tracheitis, bronchitis, or pneumonia, etc. At this time, you must pay attention to medication treatment and follow the doctor's advice on medication. In addition, you should eat some foods that moisturize the lungs and relieve coughs, and you should also let your baby drink more water.

1. Physical therapy for baby's dry cough

1. Raise your baby's head at night.

2. 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. Steam cough relief method. If your baby has a severe cough, let him/her inhale steam; or hold your baby in a steam-filled bathroom for 5 minutes. The humid air will help clear mucus from your baby's lungs and calm your cough.

4. Use a hot water bag to relieve cough. Fill a hot water bottle with hot water at about 40℃, wrap it with a thin towel, and then apply it to the baby's back near the lungs. This can speed up the expulsion of cold and is especially effective for cough symptoms that appear in the early stages of colds.

2. Dietary remedies for baby's dry cough

Egg and vinegar for cough

Ingredients: 1 egg, 1 spoon of vinegar.

Preparation method: Beat the eggs and mix well, then add vinegar and mix well again.

Usage: Take on an empty stomach one hour before meals in the morning. Take once a day for 5 consecutive days.

Radish and rock sugar for cough

Ingredients: 1 green radish, 10 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Mash the green radish, extract the juice, add rock sugar and heat.

Usage: Drink while hot. 3 times a day.

Stewed Mushrooms with Pear Juice

Ingredients: 4 duck pears, 200 grams of mushrooms, appropriate amount of rock sugar, appropriate amount of water.

Preparation method: First peel and slice 4 duck pears and squeeze them into juice. Wash and slice 200 grams of mushrooms, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar and stew together. After the mushrooms are stewed, eat them with the soup twice a day in the morning and evening.

Usage: Pears can moisten the lungs and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce internal heat. The interferon produced by the double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in mushrooms can eliminate viruses in the body, prevent and treat dry coughs in autumn and winter, and eliminate infections. It usually takes 2-3 days to take effect.

White sugar mixed eggs

Ingredients: 1 egg, appropriate amount of white sugar, 1 spoon of vegetable oil.

Preparation method: Take a fresh egg and crack it into a small bowl. Do not stir the egg yolk and egg white. Add appropriate amount of white sugar and a spoonful of vegetable oil, and steam it in a pot.

Usage: Eat all at once while hot before going to bed at night. After taking it 2-3 times, the cough will be cured. If you have a stubborn cough, you can take it more often. Babies with chronic bronchitis are prone to coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, and restlessness after catching a cold. Mix eggs with sugar and steam them before taking it, the effect is very good.

If your baby has a dry cough, you can choose to actively treat the cough using the methods described in this article. In fact, as long as the baby's cough is treated properly, it can be cured relatively quickly.