What to do if your child coughs, especially after sleeping

Children are more likely to cough when they have cold symptoms. We know that coughing can make our throat dry and itchy, and it can also make our chest vibrate, making us feel irritated. The same thing happens when children cough, which can have a significant impact on their studies. Children cough not only during the day, but also at night, especially after lying down, when the cough will be more severe. Why is this so?

If you look closely at the vomit, you will find that the food you ate at noon or in the morning may have been basically undigested, and what you ate will come out the same way as you vomited it out.

These foods accumulate in the stomach, causing the stomach to be overburdened and indigestion. This is what Chinese medicine calls food accumulation. Indigestion generates heat, which goes up and fumigates the lungs, causing coughing.

To deal with indigestion, the first thing to do is to control your diet. Generally, after indigestion, babies will feel uncomfortable in their stomach and will not want to eat anything. Please remember at this time that the baby should not be forced to eat. If you force your baby to eat after he or she has indigestion, the indigestion will become increasingly serious. The baby's respiratory tract may also have repeated problems.

In the past, whenever Zaizai had indigestion, he could go a week without eating anything, including rice, rice, noodles... He would not even look at the food he usually liked, and would only drink a little milk every day. I let him go without food for a week. Although you will lose weight at the time, you will gain the weight back immediately after you return to a normal diet.

If the baby wants to eat, it is forbidden to feed the baby big fish and meat or various strong-flavored foods at this time. Instead, the baby should be given light vegetables and white porridge. These foods are easily absorbed and digested by the stomach.

For babies who are prone to indigestion, it is best to stop them from drinking milk at night. Drinking milk at night will make food accumulation worse and aggravate symptoms such as coughing and anorexia. Many times, indigestion caused by overeating may not necessarily lead to vomiting or night coughing, but as long as the baby is given a glass of milk before going to bed after overeating, severe symptoms of indigestion will immediately appear after sleeping for an hour or two.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. The most common thing to do during the Spring Festival holiday is to take the children to dinner with relatives and friends. At this time, we must strictly control their diet. The baby of a friend of mine drank a lot of Coke during the Chinese New Year because there was no control, which eventually led to gastric bleeding and the baby was admitted to the hospital for an IV. Therefore, do not let your baby overeat just for the sake of saving face. For children's diet, eating until they are 70% full is the most important thing.

The massage techniques for indigestion are mainly:

Pinch the four seams: Use the nail of your thumb to pinch and rub the four horizontal lines at the first joint of your baby's index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger one by one. Pinch both hands, and carefully look at the blood vessels at the four seams of these fingers. Pay special attention to pinching those that are dark, purple or black. This acupoint is not sensitive, so you need to use a little force when pinching it.

But everyone should also be careful not to use too much force. There was once a mother who was so impatient that she pinched her baby's fingers so hard that they were broken. Such force is also harmful to the baby. Therefore, all massages are based on the principle of not harming the baby.