What kind of cold medicine does a child take for a stuffy and runny nose?

Pediatric nasal congestion and runny nose has physiological factors and pathological factors, not blindly use cold medicine, should be based on the cause of the treatment.
1. Physiological factors: there are environmental hot and cold stimuli, crying and other causes of nasal congestion, parents should avoid children too hot or too cold, timely increase or decrease clothing, adjust the room temperature. Parents should try to calm the children when they cry, and the symptoms will disappear when the crying stops, so there is no need to take medication.
2. Pathological factors: common colds and rhinitis. Colds are mainly viral infections, you can use pediatric aminophenol xanthamin granules to relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose, influenza can use oseltamivir phosphate granules can also reduce symptoms and shorten the duration of the disease.
Rhinitis such as allergic rhinitis can lead to nasal congestion and runny nose, need to treat the cause, commonly used drugs are antihistamines, antibacterial drugs such as cephalosporins.
If the nasal congestion and runny nose is serious, you can go to the nearest hospital, use saline rinse under the guidance of the doctor, according to the cause of the standardized treatment, do not self-medication.