How to tell if your baby s cough is cold or hot

Condition analysis: The main symptoms of lung fever: fever, cough up yellow sputum, yellow tongue coating, sore throat, the above two symptoms can be identified as lung fever.

Suggestions: Coughing up yellow phlegm is mostly a hot cough, and coughing up white phlegm is mostly a cold cough.

Analysis: Hello, depending on the color of the phlegm, yellow phlegm is a hot cough, and white phlegm is a cold cough. In normal times, you should be careful not to eat cold foods in your diet. Pay more attention to keeping warm.

A simple way to distinguish between a hot cough and a cold cough is to look at the tongue. If the tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough, indicating a severe cold, cough with thin sputum, white and sticky, nasal congestion and runny nose. If the child's tongue is yellow and red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the child has a large internal heat, and the cough sputum is yellow and has a sore throat.

Children's disease resistance is relatively poor, it is easy to suffer from colds and coughs and other diseases when the seasons change, cough is more troublesome, it is very difficult, parents give their children a lot of medicine and it does not work, there are also many parents like to use dietary therapy to treat cough, often boil radish water for children to drink, but there is no effect, in fact, before coughing, you must distinguish what kind of cough.

How to tell if it's a hot cough or a cold cough.

1. Look**.

Cold cough: cold leads to wind chill attack the body, which is more common in winter and spring, and if you do not do a good job of keeping warm, it is easy to have cold cough.

Fever: Wind and heat into the lungs, resulting in lung heat, loss of fluid caused by stool, summer and autumn are more common, if you often eat a lot of hot food, it is easy to cause hot cough.

2. Look at the symptoms.

Cold cough: the sputum is white, relatively thin, foamy, the patient has headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, also cold and wind, the tongue is reddish, and the moss is pale.

Hot cough: the sputum is yellow, very viscous, difficult to cough out, the patient must have a dry and sore throat, thirst, accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, red tongue, yellow moss.

Preamble: The baby's cough symptoms may be caused by a cold, but the cold also has cold and heat, parents in the process, but also to understand whether the baby belongs to the wind cold cold or wind heat cold, so as to be able to better ** baby's cough symptoms. In fact, the difference between wind chill cold and wind heat cold is very big, because under normal circumstances, wind chill cold is in autumn and winter, while wind heat cold is in spring and summer, and the baby's physical symptoms will be very different.

If the baby has a cold and cold, he will be afraid of cold, and he will also have a runny nose and a headache. If the baby has a wind-heat cold, he will feel dizzy, and his body temperature will also rise, and there will be thirst and dry throat pain at this time.

After parents understand the cause of their child's cold, they should treat the symptoms, which is conducive to the child's health. Because the difference between the child's wind chill cold and wind heat cold is very big, and the two symptoms are very different, so the method is also different, and parents must identify it in time, so as to be targeted. After a period of time, the symptoms will be relieved quickly, and the child's body will be able to slowly recover its health.

If the baby has symptoms of hot cough, he will cough often during the day, and the number of coughs is also relatively frequent, at this time the baby's throat will be painful and dry, and the baby will sweat in the process of coughing. If the baby has a cold cough, the symptoms of cough will be more frequent at night, and the phlegm coughed up by the baby is very white, and there will be a clear nose, and the snot will flow out like water.

Regardless of whether the baby has a hot cough or a cold cough, parents should pay attention to it in time, and it is best to choose to take the child to the hospital for **, and take some drugs to relieve the symptoms under the guidance of a doctor. It is conducive to the child's physical health, can avoid coughing, and has a certain impact on the child, and should also do a good job of nursing in daily life, pay attention to keeping warm, and do not let the child catch a cold.

The sputum for a cold cough is white in color and the sputum for a hot cough is yellow. If the child's tongue coating is whitish and the pulse is delayed, it is a cold cough, and if the tongue coating is yellow, red, and the pulse count, it is a hot cough.

Cold cough generally refers to the cough caused by cold and cold, and hot cough generally refers to the child who wears too much heat to cause, under normal circumstances, the child's runny nose is a clear nose is a cold cough, if the child is yellow nasal discharge, it is an internal fire, is a hot cough.

Generally, if you cough hot, you will spit out some of the phlegm, and then if you cough coldly, you will have a cold baby's body or fever.

The symptoms of cold cough and hot cough are different, hot cough will have thick phlegm, cold cough is generally dry cough, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible**.

You can look at the tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white and the child's hands and feet are cold, that is the cough caused by the cold. The yellow tongue coating and red tongue indicate that there is heat in the body, and the child's hands and feet are not cold when coughing, but the face is red, the throat is swollen and sore, the urine is yellow in color, the smell is heavy, and the eyes are red, most of them are hot coughs.

If the child's hands and feet are cold and the tongue coating is white, boil water with two slices of ginger, half a spoon of brown sugar, and 3 or 4 cloves of garlic to boil water for the child to drink, drink 2 or 3 times a day, and drink until the child's hands and feet begin to heat up, give the child a glass of warm water for half an hour, and the number of coughs will decrease as the number of times the child urinates. At night, parents should soak their children's feet in warm water until they sweat slightly, so that children can sleep more and recover their strength as soon as possible. The next day, the child's hands and feet are also touched, and if the hands and feet are still cold, continue to treat them according to the above methods.

If the child's hands and feet are already warm, only drink ginger brown sugar water 1 or 2 times to consolidate it, ensure that the child drinks more warm water, the diet should be light, give the child more broth, chicken soup, do not eat fish, shrimp, yam, chili, and slowly the child will not cough. Or parents make scrambled eggs with sesame oil and ginger for the child to eat before the child goes to bed at night, the method is as follows: put a small spoon of sesame oil into the wok, put the ginger after the oil is hot, put the ginger in the oil for a while, and then pour in an egg and scramble well, feed the child while it is hot before the child goes to bed, insist on eating for a few days, and the child's cough caused by the cold can be significantly improved.

If the child's hands and feet are not cold when coughing, but the face is red, the throat is swollen and sore, the urine is yellow in color, the smell is heavy, and the eyes are also red, parents should give the child a large amount of light salt water, which can not only eliminate internal heat, but also stop coughing. At the same time, it is also necessary to boil pear water for the child to drink, moisten the lungs, and let the child rest early, and the diet should be light, and the child's condition can be controlled soon.

Cold cough: Invasion of wind and cold, caused by the loss of lung qi in Xuanxia, which is more common in winter and spring.

Hot cough: Wind and heat invade the lungs, enter the body to dissolve heat, heat burning fluid, and the lungs are not cleared, which is more common in summer and autumn.

Manifestations of cold cough: sputum is thin and white, foamy, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, or accompanied by cold intolerance, chills, no sweating, pale red tongue, thin white moss, and tight pulse.

Manifestations of hot cough: yellow and thick sputum, not easy to cough up, dry and painful throat, thirst, often accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, red tongue, thin yellow moss, pulse float or floating.

Guidance: It should be a cold cough, it is recommended to pay attention to keeping warm, do not eat raw and cold food, especially when going out, you should wear a mask, it is recommended to eat some anti-inflammatory drugs and traditional Chinese medicine such as banlan root, your situation is mostly caused by a cold, you can take it with Chuanbei loquat ointment, I hope my explanation can help you, I wish you a good day**.

If the tongue coating is white, like snow in winter, it means that the body is cold, and the phlegm of the cough is also thin, white and sticky, and has nasal congestion and runny nose. If the tongue coating is yellow and the tongue is red, it means that the internal heat is large, the phlegm of the cough is yellow and thick, it is not easy to cough, and there is a sore throat. If the cough worsens at night, or if you don't cough during the day but only cough at night, most of them are chills and weak cough.

A hot cough is a cough without an infection, such as bronchial allergies.

Cold cough is mostly non-sputum-free, or white sputum that is not easy to cough up. The cough will be worse at night, and the hot cough will have a lot of phlegm and yellow thickness, and there may be no phlegm but the cough will be coughed when you take a deep breath, which is caused by lung heat.