What to do if your baby has a cold, cough and runny nose

In addition to timely treatment for babies' coughs and runny noses caused by colds, you also need to keep your baby warm and treat the cough in time. If the baby coughs for a long time, it is easy to develop pneumonia. There are many ways to treat baby coughs. If the baby is too young, it is best to use medication under the guidance of a doctor, and you must take good care of the baby at ordinary times.

What to do if your baby has a cold, cough and runny nose

1. Daily care: pay attention to the baby's rest and warmth

Sick babies should reduce activities, increase rest time, and slightly raise their head and chest when lying in bed to allow for unobstructed breathing. Keep the indoor air fresh, maintain appropriate temperature and humidity, and avoid convection wind. Relieve your baby's runny nose symptoms.

2. Daily care: ensure adequate water and nutrition supply

Encourage the sick baby to drink plenty of fluids, and replenish fluids intravenously if necessary. Provide easily digestible, nutritious food, and it is advisable to eat liquid or semi-liquid food during fever.

3. Daily care: keep oral cavity clean

Because the baby catches a cold, coughs, and has a lot of thick phlegm. Severe coughing may cause vomiting, so it is necessary to maintain oral hygiene to increase comfort, improve appetite, and promote the excretion of toxins.

Babies can be fed an appropriate amount of boiled water after eating to clean their mouths. Older children should rinse their mouths in the morning, after meals, and before going to bed.

4. Daily care: effective expectoration

To enable the baby to cough up phlegm effectively, instruct and encourage the child to cough effectively;

If the sputum is thick, the humidity in the ward can be appropriately increased, and the indoor temperature should be maintained at around 60% to humidify the air and dilute the secretions;

Ultrasonic nebulization inhalation or steam inhalation can also be used; for sick babies who are weak in coughing, it is advisable to change their body positions frequently and pat their backs to make it easier for respiratory secretions to be discharged and promote the dissipation of inflammation;

If there is a lot of secretion and it affects breathing, use a suction device to clear the sputum in time and keep the airway open. People with cough and wheezing symptoms can be given oxygen inhalation.

5. Daily care: Proper care of fever symptoms

If your baby has a fever, no special treatment is needed if the fever is not high. If the fever is high, physical or drug cooling measures should be taken to prevent convulsions.

6. Daily care: taking medication

Take some children's cold medicine as instructed by the doctor. Such as: Xiaoer Cough Syrup, Children's Cold Relief Granules, etc.