What to do if your one year old baby has a little cough

A little cough in one-year-old babies may be related to colds, pediatric pneumonia, allergic reactions and other reasons, and it is necessary to choose the appropriate treatment according to different situations.
1. Colds and flu: as the resistance of one-year-old babies is relatively weak, they are easily attacked by bacteria, viruses and other disease-causing microorganisms, and often have symptoms such as swelling of the throat, fever and cough. If the fever exceeds 38.5 degrees, you can choose ibuprofen suspension and other medication under the advice of the doctor, drink more water, pay attention to warmth and rest.
2. Pediatric Pneumonia: Pediatric Pneumonia is an inflammation of the pediatric lungs caused by pathogenic microorganisms and other pathogenic infections, often occurring in children under 5 years of age, usually with fever, cough, shortness of breath, dyspnea and other symptoms, can be recommended by the doctor, choose to intravenous injection of cephalosporins, azithromycin and other medications for treatment, or oral amoxicillin capsule, cefixime granules and other drugs.
3. allergic reaction: if the one-year-old baby belongs to the allergic body, easy to cold air, dust, smoke, pollen and other allergens stimulation caused by allergic reaction, the baby will show the symptoms of dry cough, can be in the doctor’s advice to choose loratadine syrup and other anti-allergy drug treatment.
One year old baby cough should pay attention to observe the baby’s mental state, and timely clean up the mouth foreign body, avoid causing suffocation, the situation is serious should go to the hospital in time for examination and active treatment. The above medication should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.