What medicine should children take for cold and cough

Children are very prone to catching colds when they are young, because their physical fitness is relatively weak. Therefore, many parents will not take their children out when their physical fitness is relatively weak. Avoiding crowded places is a good way to prevent colds. If you still catch a cold accidentally, you should seek treatment in time. So what medicine is better for young children to take when they have a cold and cough?

Reasonable diet: The general principle is to choose easily digestible food and eat small meals frequently. Give your baby more fruit juice. The baby's diet can be thicker when the fever subsides and the digestive ability is better. As the baby's condition improves, he can generally return to his normal diet in about a week. Suitable environment: Keep your baby's room well ventilated. For babies with fever, fresh air helps the skin sweat effectively and lower body temperature. You should avoid blowing air directly towards your baby, as this will cause the blood vessels in your baby's skin to constrict and worsen the condition. Effective sweating: Encourage your baby to drink more water. Water can increase the body's cell metabolism and promote the excretion of toxins in the body. At the same time, it can effectively induce sweating, which is beneficial to lowering body temperature. The baby's clothes and bedding should not be too many or too thick, otherwise it will easily lead to persistent high fever and even induce high fever convulsions! After the baby takes antipyretic drugs, he will sweat profusely. Clothes and bedding should be changed in time when they are wet with sweat to avoid catching cold and aggravating the condition. Physical cooling: Physical cooling methods include: local heat dissipation cooling, taking a warm bath or warm water sponge bath, cold salt water enema, etc. Among them, local heat dissipation cooling method is the simplest and easiest, and is suitable for common use in the home.

1. Drink more boiled water: Due to fever, rapid breathing, coughing and increased secretions in the trachea, the child loses a lot of body fluids. Therefore, you should pay attention to replenishing more fluids. The best fluid is boiled water. Whether it is in the early prevention or the later treatment process, it is important to drink more boiled water, which is convenient for preventing dehydration and reducing the viscosity and dryness of secretions in the respiratory tract, which is conducive to the child coughing up sputum.

2. Eat more vegetables and fruits: When children have a cold, the consumption of vitamins in the body increases and the vitamin content in the blood decreases, so pay attention to eating more dark green and orange-green vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins in the diet to increase the children's resistance to disease.

3. Eat easily digestible food: Children with colds generally have poor appetite due to the impact on the activity of digestive enzymes in the stomach, and may even have symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea and constipation. Therefore, the food given to the child should be easy to digest, not too salty or too sweet, and should not be greasy or irritating.

4. Avoid eating granular hard nuts: Children with colds are prone to coughing. Be careful when eating granular hard nut snacks to prevent accidental inhalation of food into the human organs and causing foreign matter in the trachea.

5. Eat small meals frequently during illness: For children with a cold, dietary care should not only satisfy the child's taste, but also pay attention to a reasonable combination of nutrition. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, additional meals are served in the morning. The foods should be milk, egg custard, fruit, juice, chopped vegetables and thick porridge.