What to do if your baby has a yellow runny nose

Yellow nasal discharge, indicating that the nasal mucosa is congested and swollen, may be caused by a cold, or rhinitis, sinusitis, or may be caused by a foreign body in the nasal cavity. Different causes, treatment measures are not the same. 1, cold: when the baby cold, especially combined with bacterial infection, there may be yellow nasal discharge. At this time, it is recommended to give the baby more water, you can use a hot towel to apply hot compresses to the baby’s nose, rinse the nasal cavity with saline, or use a nasal aspirator to clean up the baby’s nasal cavity to avoid nasal blockage. If there is fever or obvious symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, if there is a bacterial infection, can be used under the guidance of the doctor pediatric cephalexin for anti-infective treatment, if there is a fever can be used in accordance with the doctor’s instructions pediatric aminophenol huangnamin particles for antipyretic and anti-inflammatory treatment; 2, rhinitis, sinusitis: If the baby flow yellow nasal discharge of a relatively long time, not only only to consider for the cold caused by the cold, then be Highly alert to whether the baby has rhinitis or sinusitis, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner. Once diagnosed, timely treatment, can use physiological sea saline or nasal wash thoroughly clean the nasal cavity, but also for the baby to use mometasone furoate nasal spray and other glucocorticoid drugs anti-inflammatory treatment, but also can be taken orally nasal abundance Tongkiao particles or nasal abundance Shu oral solution, to alleviate the symptoms of the baby running yellow nose. For serious sinusitis need to improve the examination and surgical treatment, commonly used endoscopic sinus surgery, mainly to rebuild the nasal cavity, sinus ventilation and drainage, to restore the normal function of the nose; 3, nasal foreign body: the age of small babies may be stuffed with a foreign body into the nasal cavity, when the nasal cavity of the foreign body caused by the infection, there will also be a yellow runny nose, if the time is longer, you can also smell the odor. At this time, it is recommended that timely consultation, so that the ENT doctor as soon as possible to remove the foreign body, and at the same time to give anti-infection treatment, commonly used drugs are amoxicillin, cefaclor, azithromycin and other antibiotics.