1, give the baby warm and humid air:

The appropriate room temperature is 20℃, and the indoor humidity should be maintained at 60% ~ 65%. It is best to hang a hygrometer in the room for easy observation. Dry in winter and spring, use humidifier to humidify or dry clothes and towels indoors. When you have a severe cough and phlegm in your throat, let your child inhale steam or sit in the bathroom with your child, turn on hot water and let warm and humid steam enter the airway.

2, hot drinks to relieve cough:

Drinking warm drinks can make sticky phlegm thin and easy to cough up. It is best to let children drink warm boiled water or warm milk, rice soup, etc., and also to feed children fresh juice mixed with warm boiled water. Juice should be apple juice or pear juice with less irritation, and citrus juice such as orange juice and grapefruit juice should be avoided.

3. Raise the baby's head at night:

The secretions of nose and sinuses will flow to the throat when the child is lying flat, causing itching in the throat, which will aggravate the cough at night, while the head is raised, which can reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. You can put a pillow under the baby's mattress to raise his head position.

4, hot water bottle back cough:

Applying a hot water bag to the back can relieve the symptoms of cough. Fill the hot water bottle with hot water of about 40℃, wrap it with a thin towel, and then apply it to the back near the lungs, which can speed up the cold and stop the cough quickly.

5. Help your baby cough:

If the baby coughs when awake, you can pick him up, touch his back and pat him gently. Cough when you fall asleep. You can raise your upper body and lie on your side, and put a cushion or pillow on your child's shoulder and back. Let the baby sleep alternately on the left and right sides, which is conducive to the discharge of respiratory secretions.

Don't lie down and sleep immediately after feeding a cough baby to prevent aspiration caused by spitting milk due to cough. If you have inhaled and coughed by mistake, you should immediately change your head to a low position, pat your back, encourage you to cough, and cough up the inhalation.

6, external rubbing cough:

Rub the mixture of fresh ginger or garlic slices, snail mucus and egg white on the sternum from top to bottom twice a day for several minutes each time.

Dietary conditioning of children with cough

First, fast cold food.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold-forming and cold-drinking will hurt the lungs, that is to say, once the body is cold, drinking cold products can hurt the lungs of the human body, and cough is mostly caused by lung diseases, which lead to lung qi failure and lung qi going up." At this time, if the diet is still too cold, it will easily lead to lung qi occlusion, aggravated symptoms, and will not heal for a long time.

Whether children or adults, cough is often accompanied by phlegm, and the amount of phlegm is related to the spleen. Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, which is in charge of the digestion and absorption of human diet. If you eat too much cold food, it will hurt the spleen and stomach, causing the function of the spleen to decline, gathering dampness and producing phlegm.

Second, internal heat aggravates cough, and phlegm is sticky and difficult to cough up.

For children with asthma, overeating fat and sweet can cause phlegm-heat interaction, block the respiratory tract, aggravate asthma, and make the disease difficult to heal. Therefore, you should eat some light food during coughing.

Third, fast oranges.

Many people think that oranges are cough-relieving and expectorant, so they let children with cough eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and phlegm instead. The average child can't eat orange peel instead of orange meat.

Therefore, children's diet should be light during cough, and children with chronic cough can drink boiled water with pears and rock sugar, which has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough; You can also cook porridge with fresh lilies, which is very effective for children who cough for a long time and have lung qi deficiency. For children with spleen deficiency, they can usually eat more yam, or cook lotus seed porridge, barley porridge and jujube porridge.