My baby spits out a lot of phlegm. Is it ok?

Children have poor physical resistance and their bodies are still in the process of development. If parents are not careful, it is easy to cause irreparable harm. Therefore, parents must pay more attention to their children's growth. Especially when children have a cold or cough, parents must take them to the hospital for examination and active treatment in time.

Children's coughs are more serious than adults', and most of them will cough incessantly. When parents see their children coughing a little, they will go to the doctor, prescribe medicine, and give them intravenous drips. The result of taking medicine is that the child's appetite is poor, the nutrition is not enough, and the child's resistance is poor. This makes the child more likely to catch a cold and cough. Therefore, these children fall into a vicious circle. The children often grow thin, have a sallow complexion, and may even develop asthma. Therefore, when a child has symptoms of coughing, parents should first observe their cough to see if there are any complications and systemic symptoms, and then decide whether to seek medical attention immediately.

1. Parents can observe first and do not rush to the hospital for children with coughs

1. Although the child has a cough and fever, he is in good spirits. Most of the time, it is a cold or childhood tonsillitis.

2. Coughing continues after having a cold, fever and cough.

3. Cough and excessive sputum, but no fever and good spirits.

4. A cough that only occurs in the early morning.

5. Mild coughing when you are nervous or after exercise. Parents do not need to worry too much about the above 5 types of children's cough. They can relieve the symptoms and treat children's cough through diet therapy.

2. Children who need to see a doctor immediately have a cough

1. If a child suddenly develops severe coughing and has difficulty breathing, there may be a foreign body blocking the trachea, resulting in tracheal foreign body or esophageal foreign body. Things that are easy to swallow accidentally include peanuts, pencil cases, pills, buttons, coins, etc. This situation is very dangerous and you should go to the hospital immediately.

2. If you have a high fever, cough, wheezing and difficulty breathing, you need to be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately.

3. Babies are very susceptible to bronchiolitis, a type of pneumonia. If the child's face looks bad, often turns purple, or his breathing becomes faster, his shoulders sway when he breathes, and the lower chest wall collapses when he inhales, he should be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately.

Because coughs can be divided into exogenous coughs and endogenous coughs, and exogenous coughs can be divided into wind-cold coughs and wind-heat coughs, different types of coughs require completely different medications and diet therapy methods. Here I will teach parents a simple way to distinguish them, which is to observe their child’s tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough, which means the child has a severe cold. The sputum from the cough is thinner, white and sticky, and there is nasal congestion and runny nose. At this time, some warm, expectorant and cough-relieving foods should be eaten. If the child's tongue coating is yellow or red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the child has a lot of internal heat. The phlegm in the cough is yellow, thick, and difficult to cough up, and there is a sore throat. At this time, the child should eat some food that clears the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. Internal injury coughs are mostly long-term coughs and recurrent coughs. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their children some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, and replenish the lung qi. The specific methods are as follows:

Dietary treatment for children’s internal injury cough Internal injury cough refers to a long-term, recurring chronic cough. Or the cough may be caused by a cold or fever. Although the symptoms of the cold and fever have disappeared, the cough has not gone away.

Babies who cough repeatedly have poor appetite and no appetite due to the excessive use of anti-inflammatory and cough suppressants, and their tongue is almost covered with white coating. Therefore, parents should first regulate the baby's spleen and stomach and improve the baby's physical fitness. The specific dietary therapy is as follows:

The dietary therapy for cold and cough is suitable for babies with internal injury cough.

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