Baby cold cough, cough will have phlegm, parents will think of using cough medicine, but the baby often can not be as smooth as adults cough out phlegm. Sputum easily blocks the respiratory tract, causing poor breathing. Effective sputum removal is more important than cough, it can not only unblock the respiratory tract, but also partially discharge pathogenic microorganisms and foreign bodies in the airway, which plays a positive role in the dissipation of inflammation.
Cough alone does not expectorant consequences are serious
The baby's immunity is poor, and it is easy to induce respiratory diseases after a cold, and the respiratory tract has inflammation, and the secretion will naturally increase. Adults have a well-developed ciliary system in the trachea and lungs, which can transport foreign bodies and excessive secretions to the throat in the form of sputum, stimulating the body to produce cough reflexes and coughing up sputum.
This expectorant ability in infants and young children is very poor, even older children do not spit like adults, so most of the time sputum has to be blocked in the throat, trachea, or swallowed directly through the stool or vomiting. Once a large amount of sputum and germs accumulate in the respiratory tract, it can lead to bacterial infection, which in turn can develop pneumonia. Some children experience chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and even life-threatening atelectasis and heart failure.
Cough sputum can discharge too much secretion in the respiratory tract, the respiratory tract plays a protective role, if only the use of antitussive drugs will make sputum spilled in the respiratory tract, so expectorant is more important than cough.
Expectorant has a great trick
Drink plenty of cold boiled water to drain sputum
Give your baby more water, because drinking water has a good moisturizing and physical therapeutic effect on the throat, which is conducive to the elimination of local inflammation. When the baby is sick, not only has a poor appetite, but it is generally accompanied by different degrees of dehydration, which will aggravate the inflammation of the respiratory tract and the consistency of secretions. Drinking plenty of cold boiled water not only helps to reduce fever, but also moisturizes the respiratory tract and dilutes sputum so that it is easy to cough up. In addition, cold boiled water can also improve blood circulation, so that waste products or toxins generated by the body's metabolism are quickly excreted from the urine, thereby reducing the stimulation of the respiratory tract.
Pat on the back to expectorant
The method of patting the back to expectorant is usually used as an emergency when the baby's sputum does not come out. The method of operation is to let the baby lie on his side or pick up the side in between the baby's coughs. Five fingers in one hand are slightly bent, clenched into an empty fist, and gently slapped the baby's back. When shooting on the left side, lie down to the left, alternating between the two sides.
Back patting can not only promote the sputum in the baby's lungs and bronchi to loosen, drain and discharge into the atmospheric tubes, but also promote blood circulation in the heart and lungs, which is conducive to the resolution of inflammation and the early healing of the disease.
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Do not shoot for 1 hour before and after eating, because before eating, phlegm may loosely stuck in the throat, then the thing will spit out when eating; shooting after the meal, it will also cause stomach discomfort, and even spit out what you just ate.
The time to pat the back should be long enough, and the number of times should be enough; about 5 to 10 minutes at a time, 2 to 3 times a day, for three or four days in a row, you can see the effect.
In the process of phlegm shooting, always pay attention to the baby's face and breathing, if there is a purple face or breathing is not smooth, take a rest, wait for the baby to breathe smoothly and then continue.
Water vapor expels sputum
That is, the use of water vapor to help drain sputum from the respiratory tract, this method is suitable for babies over 2 years old. The method is to pour boiling water into a teacup, pick up the baby, make his mouth and nose against the cup, and the rising water vapor is inhaled into the respiratory tract with the baby's breathing, teaching the baby to deeply inhale and exhale deeply, each time for 20 minutes. Inhalation of water vapor can make the sputum in the trachea and bronchi dilute and facilitate coughing, and can also reduce the congestion and edema of the respiratory mucosa, which is conducive to the subsidence of inflammation and the discharge of sputum.
Cough medication two misconceptions
Myth 1: Many parents think that the baby's cough is inflammation of the respiratory tract, so the baby must use anti-inflammatory drugs when coughing, and even require doctors to treat it with intravenous antibiotics. In fact, this will have a lot of adverse effects on the baby. Your baby's cough is not only caused by inflammatory irritation after respiratory infection, but also allergies, soot, and foreign body irritation can also cause your baby's cough. If the cause cannot be treated, indiscriminate use of anti-inflammatory drugs to treat cough is harmful and unhelpful, and it often produces toxic side effects of the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys.
Myth two: Some parents use cough medicines for their babies at will, in fact, some cough medicines contain central anesthetic cough components, causing the accumulated sputum to block the respiratory passage, affecting breathing and ventilation, and the inflammatory substances in the respiratory tract are not easy to eliminate.
Cough has a recovery period
Baby cough is a recovery process, in fact, as long as through the formal treatment, the baby is well, a little cough does not matter. Most coughs are caused by babies who will not spit, and if they are not serious, they do not need to be treated, and they can drink some rock sugar pear water. If there is phlegm, you can properly eat a dim phlegm proprietary medicine, such as bamboo drainage.
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