What to do if your baby coughs

Babies who have just turned one month old have relatively poor physical constitutions. If parents are inexperienced and do not pay attention to keeping the baby warm, the baby may catch a cold and cough. At this time, we must emphasize care. Babies should drink more water, in small amounts and frequently. At this time, the mother's diet should be lighter, and avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy foods. This is also important for breastfed babies. In addition, it is also good to massage the child more often.

1. Drink water reasonably, drink small amounts frequently.

No matter what kind of cough it is, you should actively let your baby drink water, and don't wait until he is thirsty to think about drinking water. If babies drink enough water, the sticky secretions can be diluted and coughed out more easily. At the same time, drinking water can improve blood circulation and quickly excrete waste or toxins produced by the body's metabolism, thereby reducing irritation to the respiratory tract.

2. Mothers should eat a light diet and avoid raw, cold and greasy foods.

The mother's diet should be mainly light, with more fresh vegetables and a small amount of lean meat or poultry and eggs. Avoid greasy and fishy foods. Fruits are indispensable, but not too much. Do not eat oranges if you have a wind-heat cough. Avoid sour foods as they have the effect of astringing phlegm and are not conducive to eliminating phlegm.

3. Keep the indoor air fresh.

Open windows regularly to ventilate the home and keep the indoor temperature moderate, which helps keep the respiratory mucosa moist and the cilia on the mucosa surface moving, which helps expel phlegm.

4. Cold resistance training to enhance physical fitness.

Starting from early autumn, wash your face with cold water, take a sponge bath, or let your skin come into close contact with fresh air regularly. There are different training methods, the key is perseverance. But you must be careful to strike a balance. When a cold wave comes, you should not blindly "freeze" yourself, otherwise you will catch a cold instead of exercising.

5. Focus on expectoration and use the medicine with caution.

The respiratory system of children is not fully developed, and they cannot cough up phlegm as effectively as adults, so phlegm is easily retained. If cough suppressants are given as soon as a cough occurs, the cough will be stopped, but the suppressed cough will make it more difficult to expel phlegm, which will result in blockage of the respiratory tract, not only making the cough worse, but also making it easy to cause lung infection. Therefore, children's cough should be treated with expectorant in the early stages.