Eight-month-old babies with viral colds need to strengthen daily care, symptomatic treatment (such as reasonable fever reduction) and causative treatment.
1. Enhance daily care: such babies need to drink more water, eat a reasonable diet, pay attention to warmth and room ventilation.
2. Symptomatic treatment: viral “cold” babies have fever during the course of the disease, and need to reasonably reduce fever, such as temperature over 38.5 ℃ can use ibuprofen suspension drops, and not more than 38.5 ℃ can be through warm baths or the use of antipyretic patches and other ways to reduce physical temperature.
Some babies may have nasal congestion, saline drops can be used to relieve the symptoms.
3. Causal treatment: the disease is mostly self-limiting, can be combined with some of the antiviral efficacy of the Chinese medicine with the treatment, such as antiviral oral solution.
The above medications should be used under the guidance of a physician, and it is recommended to actively seek medical advice and treatment from a specialist.