What to do if your baby has a cold and coughs with phlegm

The methods of cold, cough and phlegm generally include medicine, diet and so on.

1. Drugs**: When sputum is difficult to discharge, oral antitussive expectorant drugs**, such as ambroxol hydrochloride, compound licorice tablets and other drugs, and supplemented with antibiotics, such as cefixime or amoxicillin. 2. Diet conditioning:

It can also be relieved by some dietary therapy, such as drinking warm ginger brown sugar water and stewing pears with rock sugar, which can play a role in relieving cough and reducing phlegm. If the patient has a cough and the phlegm does not improve after a cold, it is recommended that the patient go to the hospital in time to take a tablet to prevent bronchitis or pneumonia.

You should eat a light diet and should not eat fried, barbecued, spicy and other foods, as well as cold drinks, coffee, etc. You can drink plenty of water, and using water can dilute phlegm, which is more conducive to coughing up phlegm. Attention should be paid to prohibiting smoking and drinking, and eating more expectorant fruits and vegetables, such as loquat, pears, radish, etc.

You can prepare pears for colds and coughs with phlegm, dig out the core in the middle after cutting, then put in two to three rock sugars, and then put the pears in a bowl and steam them in a pot. Prepare the carrots and wash them, then cut them into four or five thick slices, then put them in a pot, add half a bowl of water, then put them on a fire to boil, then simmer them over low heat for five minutes, and drink them when the water is cold. You can also drink ginger and garlic brown sugar water.

If there is still no improvement after the above measures, it is recommended to go to the hospital for medical treatment in time.

If the baby has a cold and cough and phlegm in the throat, the baby should be taken to a regular hospital to screen for a cold**, and use anti-cold, cough and phlegm drugs under the guidance of a doctor**, and at the same time, life conditioning should also be carried out.

1.Screening**: After the baby has a cold, cough and phlegm symptoms, you can take the baby to a regular hospital to find a doctor for physical examination, chest X-ray, throat swab, blood routine and other related examinations, to clarify the type of pathogenic microorganisms, that is, to clarify the cold**.

Medications** are generally required, and children should follow their doctor's instructions for medication.

2.Medications**: Baby cold medication includes medication for pathogens** and symptomatic medication**.

1) Pathogen**: For colds caused by viral infections, antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir can be used**. In severe disease with secondary bacterial infection, antimicrobial drugs such as cefuroxime, penicillin, and clarithromycin may be used**.

2) Symptomatic**: If the baby has symptoms of high fever after a cold, you can use acetaminophen or ibuprofen and other antipyretic and analgesic drugs to treat the symptoms. If you have symptoms of cough and phlegm, you can use cough and phlegm drugs such as ambroxol and pediatric cough syrup**, and if necessary, they should be nebulized.

Specific medication should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.

3.Life conditioning: To let the baby rest properly, be sure to encourage the baby to drink more water, give the baby easy to digest food, and maintain indoor air circulation. During the epidemic of respiratory diseases, do not take your baby to public places, and wear a mask for your baby when you go out.

Baby colds are usually caused by viral infections, and generally have symptoms such as runny nose, nasal congestion or cough and phlegm. However, parents do not need to worry, this is also a normal physiological response of the human body, which can ensure the smooth airway, as long as it is actively carried out, it can be effectively improved and avoid the suffering of the baby. So, what should I do if my baby has a cold and phlegm in his throat?

1.Adjust your sleeping position. If the baby's cough is more severe at night, you can adjust the sleeping position, such as making the upper half of life significantly higher than the lower body, which can effectively relieve the cough.

2.Regulate your diet. Do not consume eggs during the cough, as eggs will only have the effect of aggravating the condition. You can prepare pear water for your child, with a little sweetness, which is more acceptable to your child, and pear water has the effect of moistening the lungs, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough.

3.Drink plenty of fluids. If the baby is dehydrated, it will lead to concentrated respiratory secretions, easy to form phlegm plugs, affecting breathing, especially at night, drinking more water can replenish water, prevent sputum from becoming viscous, relatively easy to discharge.

4.Atomization. You can do nebulization for the baby, relieve spasms, cough and phlegm, such as budesonide, ipratropium bromide, albuterol, etc., which need a doctor's prescription and use according to the doctor's instructions.

5.Increase the humidity in the room. When the baby coughs and has phlegm, it may be that the indoor air is dry, for this case, it is necessary to pay attention to increasing the indoor humidity, if the indoor humidity is suitable, the respiratory mucosa can be in a moist state, so that the sputum is easier to discharge.

For ten-month-old babies with cough symptoms, it is best to control the indoor humidity at 60% to 65%.

6.Oral medications. The baby can take oral traditional Chinese medicine to clear away heat and detoxify, such as pediatric cough suppressant, pulmonary cough, cough and asthma, etc., or Western medicine, such as ambroxol hydrochloride and ambroterol hydrochloride, which can be selected according to the baby's age.

1.If you ask your mother what to eat to dissolve phlegm for your baby, I believe that most mothers will think of pears at the first time. Pears do have a good expectorant effect, Bao Ma can give the baby some soup with pears and rock sugar, let it cool and feed it to the baby.

Two or three times a day, feed some according to the baby's stomach and intestines each time. If the baby's stomach is very healthy, pear meat can also be fed to the baby.

2.Sugar cane. Sugarcane is also a good product for cough and phlegm, but the baby cannot eat sugarcane directly, because sugarcane is relatively hard, and the mother can squeeze it into juice for the baby to drink. However, there is a lot of sugar in cane, so don't overfeed your baby. You can also dilute the sugar in the sugarcane juice with some water, which can avoid diarrhea in the baby.

In addition to paying attention to diet, you can also use some physical methods to help your child reduce phlegm, such as slapping your child's back with an empty fist, which can also have the effect of reducing phlegm. When this happens to your child, avoid eating food that is too cold.

Pat on the backIf the baby's phlegm can't cough up, it can be used in an emergency to help the baby expel phlegm. Bend the fingers together, so that the palm is hollow, and then let the baby lie on the side or be held by the parents, with the hollow palm from the bottom to the top, from the outside to the inside to pat the baby's back, when patting the back, you need to pay attention to the strength, feel the child has a slight early vibration on it. 3 minutes each time, 3 times a day, can effectively help the baby to pass phlegm.

Pat on the back can promote the loosening of the sputum in the baby's lungs and bronchi, drain and discharge to the atmospheric tube, and also promote blood circulation in the heart and lungs, which is conducive to the absorption of bronchial inflammation.

Drink waterIn addition, you can also let the baby drink more water, especially about 20 warm boiled water, which has a good moisturizing and physical effect on the throat, which is conducive to the elimination of local inflammation. Drinking plenty of water can also dilute the viscous secretions, which are easy to cough up, which is good for cough suppressants and expectoration.

MedicationIf the baby has a lot of phlegm, don't take cough medicine casually, so as not to inhibit the cough center, which is not conducive to expectoration. Only when the phlegm is small and viscous and not easy to cough up, you can choose cough and expectorant medicine for your baby under the guidance of a doctor. Atomization. Atomization inhalation is also an option to dispel phlegm**, especially for young babies, it is difficult for children to take medicine or other **ways, so atomization is a good choice.

However, the medicine that the child nebulized cannot be made by his own thoughts, and the pediatrician needs to prescribe different drugs according to different situations.