You need to know these things about your baby's cough

What should I do if my baby coughs?

In fact, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, the treatment recommendations for mild symptoms in children are similar: continuous observation, careful medication. In China, too many "anxious" parents will communicate with doctors with a very anxious mood, and the message conveyed to doctors is "quickly eliminate this symptom, otherwise your medical skills will not work."

However, the situation is that it is unreasonable to blindly use control, repression methods, artificial intervention and elimination of inflammation, which costs everyone's time and money, and wastes some opportunities to increase children's resistance.

There are two types of parents that are often seen:

1, "excessive anxiety type", a little wind and grass, it is too anxious

2, "overconfident type", the child's cough lungs are about to come out, and they are indifferent. Don't believe it, there are really such parents, always feel that any disease can heal themselves...

The above two types are extreme, and they must not be allowed.

The first kind of parent will treat the disease with the mentality of preferring to hang a bottle of water by mistake and never let go of a germ. The consequence is that the child's late resistance is low for a long time, and he is more likely to get sick. Moreover, it is difficult to do well without hanging water in the future. Stuck in a vicious circle.

The second type of parent may delay the optimal period of treatment, resulting in unpredictable consequences.

So, the baby coughs, what to do?

1. If it is only an occasional cough, in addition, there is no other problem, then it is unlikely to be a serious disease, and most coughs are self-limited diseases and do not need to investigate the cause in depth.

2. If you feel that the cough is more severe, accompanied by fever symptoms, or the amount of urine is reduced or even breathing is difficult, you need to do further examination immediately.

3, in addition to the necessary care, it is also important to create a good environment, indoor humidity, temperature and third-hand smoke problems.

4. Don't easily try all kinds of recipes circulating on the Internet. Magic mother found that in the near future, many places will share diet therapy for cough, unless it is clearly known that the nature of the diet is in line with the child's physique and specific conditions, otherwise do not try it easily, for example, it is recommended that children who cough due to cold drink rock sugar pear water is very inappropriate.

5, it is not recommended to use cough medicine, one is because they may not have an effect on children's cough, the second is that the dosage of children is not clear, the third is that children are easily administered by several caregivers at the same time, causing overdose and increasing the risk of sudden death of children; fourth, cough medicine cold medicine may also bring many serious side effects to children. In fact, the latest research suggests that some cough medications are harmful to young children.

Cough daily care skills

1, warm brine gargling, add 1 teaspoon salt to the warm boiling water, stir well and use it to rinse the mouth, rinse the mouth for 30 seconds each time, you can sterilize and relieve the pain in the throat. This method is suitable for babies who can rinse their mouths.

2. Raise her head when the baby sleeps, and rotate the left and right sides to sleep, which is conducive to the discharge of the baby's respiratory secretions and relieves cough symptoms.

3, indoor to maintain a certain humidity and breathability, in the case of ensuring that the baby is warm, to open the window to breathe, indoor humidifier can be placed, the baby cough can be serious when he can inhale water vapor. Sit with your baby for 20 minutes in the steam generated by a hot shower, which is especially useful for dry coughs.

4. For babies with allergic cough, pillows, mattresses, quilts, plush toys, etc. at home should be cleaned frequently and exposed to the sun.

5. Pediatric tuina can also relieve and treat children's cough.

6. Drink more water during the baby's cough, which can dilute the viscous secretions and make it easy to cough up.

7. For babies who can't cough up phlegm, it is necessary for mothers to learn how to pat their backs and shoot sputum:

Pick up the baby vertically, hold one hand into an empty fist, in the baby's front chest and back (the position of the left and right lungs), divided into left and right sides (pay attention to not patting the spine and waist), respectively, from bottom to top, from the side are in the middle of the orderly pat, the sputum concentrated to the digestive tract, so as to achieve the purpose of phlegm.

When the child coughs up the sputum, parents should immediately wipe the sputum around the mouth. If the baby does not cough it up, but swallows it, there is no need to worry too much, because there are many digestive enzymes and acidic fluids in the body's digestive tract, which can also sterilize and remove foreign bodies.