Symptoms of food indigestion cough

Indigestion cough refers to the situation where the patient eats a large amount of food and often fails to digest it completely, the intestinal digestive function is not very good, or the patient eats something irritating, which will cause the child to have indigestion cough, often coughing up phlegm, and the cough is particularly severe, more frequent at night than during the day, and some will even cough until vomiting.

Symptoms of food indigestion cough:

There is sputum accumulation, with typical symptoms of coughing at night and not coughing during the day. Some babies will continue coughing until they vomit. If a cough caused by indigestion occurs, parents need to first solve the problem of indigestion by eating small meals frequently, rub the baby's stomach, and eat some food that helps digestion. The baby should also eat less spicy and irritating food, eat more vegetables and white porridge, and do appropriate exercise.

What are the symptoms of indigestion cough? There are many symptoms of indigestion in babies, but we should note that these symptoms do not appear at the same time, so it will affect our judgment to a certain extent. The symptoms include diarrhea, anorexia, bad breath, etc. In addition to these, food accumulation can also cause coughing symptoms. The specific symptoms are: food accumulation can cause the accumulation of phlegm, that is, the cough caused by food accumulation will have phlegm. Indigestion can lead to respiratory tract infections, among which coughing is the most common. The typical symptoms are coughing at night and not during the day. Some babies will cough until they vomit.

What should you do if you have a cough caused by indigestion? When indigestion occurs, parents need to pay attention to the baby's diet. They must make sure to eat small meals frequently to give the gastrointestinal tract time to digest the food. You also need to rub your baby's belly and eat some food that helps digestion, such as applesauce, hawthorn or probiotics. Babies should eat less spicy and cold foods, and can eat more vegetables and white porridge. Proper exercise is very important.

Based on the above, we know that baby's indigestion will have a great impact on the baby's health, especially affecting the baby's health. The baby is prone to illness, and indigestion cough is one of the symptoms. The most obvious symptom of indigestion is that you don’t cough during the day, but cough more severely at night. When encountering this symptom, we need to pay attention to the baby's diet and help the baby's gastrointestinal tract restore power, so as to eliminate the baby's food accumulation at the root and relieve the symptoms of coughing.

Keep the air fresh

Pay attention to the air circulation in your baby's room to ensure fresh air. When the weather is cool, open the windows frequently for ventilation. The indoor temperature should be controlled at around 20 degrees and the relative humidity should be controlled at 60%.

Feed boiled water

When the baby has phlegm in the throat, give the baby more boiled water with a temperature of more than 20 degrees during the day. This can help dilute the thick phlegm in the baby's throat and help the baby cough out the phlegm in the trachea.

Pat on the back

There is a way to help the baby expel phlegm by patting the back, which is the burping method. Just bend your fingers together to make your palm hollow, and then let the baby lie on his side or the parent can hold the baby, and use the hollow palm to pat the baby's back from top to bottom and from outside to inside. When patting, keep the strength and feel a slight vibration. Repeat this patting for three minutes and keep patting three times a day to help the baby expel phlegm.