What should I do if my child has a cough and phlegm while sleeping? Please, 3Q

Little babies and toddlers don't spit, but swallow it. **It should be determined by medical condition. If the doctor examines lower respiratory tract infections such as tracheitis, bronchitis, etc., a combination of antibiotics and phlegm-reducing drugs is required.

If the cough is not severe on auscultation, the focus is on anti-cold Chinese medicine and pediatric cough syrup**.

Children are a special group, and most of the cough and phlegm are caused by colds. When coughing with phlegm, parents need to observe the color of the sputum coughed up by their children and choose the best way according to the condition. Next, let's take a look at what to do if your baby coughs with phlegm.

What to do if your baby has a cough with phlegm

1. Replenish enough water

When the baby coughs with phlegm, parents should give the baby more warm boiled water, sufficient water can effectively help the baby dilute the phlegm, which is conducive to the coughing up of phlegm. Try to eat as light as possible. Breastfeeding mothers should also pay attention to their diet, drink more water, and eat less hot foods, as these will be passed on to their babies through breast milk.

2. Phlegm patting

Parents clasp their hands up and pat them from the child's back, from the bottom to the top, and from the outside to the inside, because this is the direction of the child's lung lobes and bronchi, which can promote the child's phlegm. Mom can let your child lie on your forearm and pat her with the other hand. When patting the back, it is required to use a little more force, and too light force will not have much effect.

Babies with coughs should be extra careful at night to avoid phlegm blocking the respiratory tract and affecting the baby's normal breathing.

3. Pay attention to ventilation in the room

Pay attention to ventilation indoors, keep the air fresh, control the temperature at 25 26, and the humidity between 50% and 60%. Family members try to avoid smoking at home. A little smoke smell will make the baby's respiratory tract uncomfortable, and the phlegm can not be coughed up smoothly, so for the baby's health, the home should become a smoke-free place.

4. Take cough and phlegm medicines

When the baby coughs with phlegm, oral cough and phlegm medicine should be taken orally, or nebulization**, which can moisten the respiratory tract and dilute the phlegm. However, cough suppressants should not be used, because cough suppressants and phlegm are two different things, and cough suppressants will affect the discharge of sputum and make the condition worse.

The above is the relevant content of what to do if the baby coughs with phlegm, I hope it will be helpful to everyone. When the baby coughs with phlegm, parents should give the baby more warm boiled water; Pat your back from the bottom up and from the outside to the inside for phlegm care; Pay attention to gout in the room and keep the air fresh; In severe cases, oral cough and phlegm reducers, or nebulization**.