Babies cough and phlegm have always been the most headache problem for parents, and they do not want their children to take medicine and do not want their children to be infused. But the baby's cough has been bad, what to do?
Treatment of cough first of all to dissolve phlegm, if the cough is forced, sputum is not discharged, the body will still discharge foreign bodies through coughing, so let's first look at the small tricks of phlegm!
1. Patting back expectorant
The baby is lying on the mother's leg, the head is low and the foot is high, and the mother uses hollow palms, alternating on both sides of the back, which is more intense than the hiccup, and encourages the baby to cough while patting. The older baby can cough up the phlegm, although the baby can't cough it out, but you can cough the phlegm to the pharynx by patting your back, and the child will excrete it through feces after swallowing. It works best when your baby is coughing, about 3 minutes at a time. Of course, when shooting, observe the baby's reaction, and if there is obvious discomfort, stop immediately!
2. Use a hot water bottle skillfully
For babies with colds and colds and coughs, use a hot water bottle (don't be too hot) to put it on the child's back upper back, and the large vertebral points are down, which can basically be much better in one night.
3. Steam sputum removal method
The use of steam to help the baby expel phlegm is also a good way, the boiling water into a large can or teacup, pick up the baby, so that its mouth and nose to the rising water vapor and suck, so that you can moisten the baby's throat, each time lasting about 20 minutes, so that not only can dilute the sputum, conducive to sputum coughing, but also reduce the trachea and bronchial mucosa congestion and edema, reduce cough. But be careful not to let the hot water burn your baby.
4. Drinking water and excretion method
Drinking water has a good moisturizing and physiotherapeutic effect on the throat, which is conducive to the elimination of local inflammation. And drinking more boiled water can dilute sputum, which helps to reduce sputum and excrete sputum. In addition, boiled water is also very helpful for improving blood circulation, which can quickly discharge waste or toxins generated by the body's metabolism from the urine, thereby alleviating its stimulation of the respiratory tract. The temperature of boiled water is optimal at 23 ° C. If the baby does not drink Bao Mom Bao Dad should find a way to coax it, but remember not to add sugar, because sugar has a stickiness, which will cause the baby's condition to be more serious.
5. Dietary therapy and sputum removal method
Some of the foods we usually eat have the effect of coughing up phlegm. Chinese medicine believes that pears have the functions of quenching thirst, coughing and phlegm, clearing heat and lowering fire, nourishing blood and muscle, moisturizing the lungs and drying the lungs, etc. Shellfish is a good medicine for phlegm and cough, and when used together with Sydney pear and rock sugar, it will cause phlegm and cough, moisturize the lungs and nourish the yin.
Mom and Dad can eat the baby according to the baby's specific situation and whether it is easy to buy, although it will not be effective immediately, but there are no side effects, and it is easier for the baby to accept.
6. Pediatric massage
1. Push the internal gossip
(1) Position: The Bagua cave is on the palm surface and the periphery of the palm.
(2) Technique: to do massage for the baby, the strength should be moderate, there is a Bagua hole in the palm of the baby's hand, use the thumb in the baby's palm position for the center of the circle, and then massage a circle clockwise, so it is called shunting inner bagua, each massage a hundred times, twice a day.
(3) Efficacy: It can help relieve baby cough.
2. Clear the liver meridian
(1) Position: The liver meridian is located on the last joint of the front of the index finger.
(2) Technique: Use your thumb to massage along the root of your baby's index finger to the fingertip, with moderate strength, about 100 times, twice a day.
(3) Efficacy: It can effectively treat cough.
3. Push the water of the Tianhe River
(1) Position: On the inside of the baby's wrist to the direction of the elbow, the meridians are in a straight line, which is the water of the Tianhe River.
(2) Technique: Use the index finger and middle finger along the wrist, straight up the massage, it is called pushing the Water of the Tianhe River, and the meridian is massaged 100 times.
(3) Efficacy: It can effectively treat the baby's cough.
4. Clear the lungs
(1) Location: The lung meridian is located at the tip of the ring finger.
(2) Technique: Start with your thumb at the base of your baby's ring finger and massage it in a straight line 100 times in the direction of your fingertip.
(3) Efficacy: It can help the baby dredge the meridians, and the effect is very obvious to effectively treat cough.