How to use your mouth to suction phlegm for your baby

In fact, it is not recommended that parents use their mouths to suction their children's phlegm. This is unhygienic, may cause pain to the children, and may even lead to some bacterial infections. If your child has a lot of phlegm and it is severe, you can go to the hospital to treat it. Usually a soft tube is inserted into the throat. But this cannot be done by parents. You can go to the hospital, but don’t act rashly, otherwise you will hurt the child and it will not be a problem of phlegm.

1. Pat the back

It can be used as an emergency measure to help children with expectoration when they are unable to cough up phlegm.

The specific operation is: in the intervals between the child's coughing, let the child lie on his side or hold the child up to lie on his side. The parent slightly bends the five fingers of one hand, makes a fist, and gently pats the child's back. Pat your left side and lie on your left side, alternating between the two sides. The force of the slapping should not be too great, and it should be done from top to bottom and from outside to inside, in sequence. Pat each side for at least 3-5 minutes, 2-3 times a day. The back-patting method can not only loosen the phlegm in the child's lungs and bronchi, drain it into the trachea and discharge it, but also promote blood circulation in the heart and lungs, which is beneficial to the absorption of bronchial inflammation and enables early recovery from the disease.

Let the child drink more water, especially cold boiled water at about 23 degrees, which has a good moisturizing and physical therapeutic effect on the throat and is conducive to the elimination of local inflammation. Children with coughing attacks often have varying degrees of dehydration, which can aggravate respiratory inflammation and the thickness of secretions, making them difficult to cough up. Drinking more cold boiled water can dilute the sticky secretions, making them easier to cough out, which is beneficial for relieving cough and removing phlegm. At the same time, cold boiled water can improve blood circulation, so that the waste or toxins produced by the body's metabolism can be quickly excreted from the urine, thereby reducing its irritation to the respiratory tract.

Pour boiling water into a large pot or teacup, hold the child, and let his mouth and nose face the rising steam and inhale and exhale. This can thin the phlegm and facilitate coughing up, and can also reduce congestion and edema of the trachea and bronchial mucosa and reduce coughing. But be careful to avoid burns and accidents.

It is normal for children to have phlegm when they have a cold, which means that the child can resist the invasion of dirty things. However, when it comes to the problem of phlegm, we can't just deal with it blindly. We have told you above that it is best for parents not to use their mouths to suction out the baby's phlegm. We have also introduced several methods to help children expectorate. You can refer to them and go to the hospital for treatment if necessary.