Winter is the high season of flu, the cold weather and baby’s weak resistance, these factors together form the best conditions for the cold virus to invade. As the saying goes, the injury is in the baby’s body, and the pain is in the mother’s heart. When a baby has a cold, it always takes several days to get well. It really makes mothers heartbroken and anxious. So what care should a mother give to her baby when she has a cold? Here we share with you the care methods during a baby’s cold. Winter baby cold diet conditioning: baby cold, in the diet must be adjusted. This can enhance the baby’s resistance and drive away the cold virus as soon as possible. It is important to note that babies with different cold symptoms have a different focus in their diet. Hydration water is better than medicine, and it is necessary to feed warm water regularly to replenish the body sweating a lot with fever. Babies under half a year old should continue to be breastfed. Breast milk is easy to digest, can ensure the nutritional needs, and can be hydrated. Manual feeding, you can feed diluted whole milk, that is, 2 parts of milk powder plus 1 part of water (2:l), at this time, although the infant’s milk volume is reduced, but supplemented with water, more conducive to baby digestion and absorption. Baby fever is appropriate to drink plain water, you can properly feed some plain water to replenish the body’s vitamin C and enhance resistance to disease. The amount of water to keep the mouth and lips moist strength, do not have to be too much. Fluid diet fever baby, diet conditioning to liquid food, such as milk, lotus root powder, milk (less oil), etc.. You can also drink some mung bean soup, iced watermelon, to help cool down, diuretic anti-disease. However, for babies with diarrhea (within 6 months), poor resistance, weak peristalsis of the stomach, poor tolerance of the gastric mucosa, cold drinks are not conducive to physical recovery and should be prohibited. When the child’s body temperature drops and his appetite improves, he can be fed semi-liquid, such as minced meat porridge, noodles, thin rice, egg flower porridge, with some easily digestible food (such as clear flower fish). Diet should be light, easy to digest as the principle, oil, salt should be less, a small number of meals, do not eat spicy and stimulating food. However, it is not necessary to avoid eating, in order to prevent malnutrition and loss of resistance. For babies with fever and cough, they should not eat too much to prevent vomiting. It is advisable to eat easily digestible food and to eat less seafood and overly salty and greasy food to prevent allergies and coughing, which may aggravate the symptoms. What should I do if my baby has a stuffy nose in winter? One of the most unpleasant symptoms when you have a cold is nasal congestion. Since most babies under 4 years old can’t blow their noses yet, mothers can try the following methods to relieve congestion: Tilt your baby’s head back, put a few drops of over-the-counter saline into his nostrils, and rub gently to moisten and loosen the boogers in his nose. After a few minutes, use a nasal aspirator to suck out the water and the boogers. If your baby’s nose is so blocked that it interferes with breastfeeding, try this method 15 minutes before feeding. This way he will be able to breathe and suck at the same time. You can also put some Vaseline on the edges of your baby’s nostrils so that he doesn’t feel uncomfortable. Note that you should not use nasal spray preparations on your baby without your doctor’s permission. Spray preparations may work temporarily, but long-term use is counterproductive and can make nasal congestion worse. Use a humidifier to moisten the air in your baby’s room. Or let your baby inhale warm water steam can also help improve nasal congestion. Be careful not to make the water too hot so as not to burn your baby. A warm bath can also improve your baby’s congestion. Stuff two towels under the mattress in the area of the baby’s headrest so that one end of the mattress is slightly elevated. Putting your baby’s head a little higher in bed will help reduce the feeling of snot coming out of the back of the nose and building up in the throat, but be careful not to pile it up too high. If your baby doesn’t sleep well, maybe his head and feet will shift, causing his feet to be higher than his head, which will be counterproductive. Do not use pillows to cushion your baby’s head, because this may make your baby suffocate. Don’t put anything under the legs of the bed either, as the bed may become unstable. You may also consider letting your baby sleep for a while in his special car seat, because in the infant car seat he is in a semi-sitting position.