What should I do if my baby has a cold, coughs and is a little wheezing?

Babies are a group of people with relatively special physical fitness. They have low immunity, are unfamiliar with the external environment, and are more susceptible to diseases. Generally speaking, a cold is not a particularly serious problem, but if a baby catches a cold, it will have a very big impact on the baby's body and may even affect the baby's normal development. So, what should we do if our baby has a cold, coughs and is a little wheezing?

My baby is coughing and wheezing. What should he eat?

1. Garlic

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, garlic is spicy, sweet and warm in nature. It can warm the middle and strengthen the stomach, help digestion and regulate qi, detoxify and kill insects. It also has the effects of protecting cardiovascular system, protecting liver function, preventing colds, and having strong bactericidal effects. Therefore, if you drink some garlic water in moderation, it will be very effective in curing children's cough.

2. Pear

When I was a child, whenever I had a cold or cough, my family would boil a pear and add sugar to it. In fact, pears do have the effect of treating coughs. Because pears themselves contain a lot of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotene and various vitamins. In addition, pear peel, pear blossoms, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, with good effects of clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It has good effects on dryness-heat cough, cold cough, measles cough and tracheitis cough.

3. Loquat

In Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, relieving gas, benefiting the lungs, and stopping vomiting, thirst and phlegm." It can be seen that loquat has a very good effect in relieving and treating children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the skin and eat it directly. But be sure to clean the leather because it is very dirty.

4. Radish

Radish has the effects of clearing heat and promoting body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting urination, and detoxifying. The simplest way is to boil a bowl of radish water for the child, which is very effective for cough. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish soup, candied radish, radish sake decoction, etc. as medicinal food to better treat children's cough.

5. Oranges

Oranges are sweet and sour, and cool in nature. For children, they have the effects of stimulating appetite, regulating qi, quenching thirst and moistening the lungs. When a child has a cough, you can roast the oranges or stir-fry them in a pan. If children eat it, the effect of treating cough will be better.

Daily care for children's cough

1. Eat a light diet

But it should be nutritious and easy to digest and absorb. If you have poor appetite, you can make some light and delicious vegetable porridge, rice soup, noodle soup and other easily digestible foods.

2. Drink more boiled water

Drink enough water to meet the child's physiological and metabolic needs. Adequate water can help dilute phlegm and make it easier to cough up. Boiled water is best, and various beverages should never be used to replace boiled water.

3. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits

It can supplement sufficient inorganic salts and vitamins, which is very beneficial for the recovery of colds and coughs. Eat more fruits and vegetables containing carotene, such as tomatoes, carrots, etc.

4. Choose drugs that can both eliminate phlegm and relieve cough

Be careful when using cough suppressants when you have phlegm to avoid phlegm accumulation and worsening of the condition! Coughs are mostly caused by thick phlegm, increased phlegm volume, and difficulty in coughing up phlegm. If the sputum is not discharged smoothly, secondary infection may occur, thereby aggravating the condition. Timely expectoration and sputum discharge will help control cough symptoms.