What should I do if my baby has a cold?

The baby’s cold is mostly caused by upper respiratory tract infections, which can start from life care, symptomatic medication, and prevention work. 1. life care: baby cold symptoms are not serious, just a slight cold discomfort, you can temporarily observe, let the baby rest, feed the baby water, pay attention to diet light, balanced nutrition, pay attention to indoor ventilation, to help the baby to do a good job of daily oral and nasal hygiene, etc., generally a few days after the baby’s cold symptoms can be slowly alleviated. 2. Symptomatic medication: baby colds are mostly caused by viral infections, there is no specific antiviral drugs for colds, such as secondary bacterial infections can be used azithromycin and other antibiotics; such as the baby has a fever, the body temperature is greater than 38.5 ° C, you can orally ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and other fever-reducing drugs. The use of drugs need to be guided by a doctor. 3. Prevention: Take babies to crowded and unventilated public places, clean the living environment regularly and disinfect it properly. Let the baby exercise properly to enhance the resistance; according to the weather changes in a timely manner to the baby to increase or decrease the clothes, etc.. If your baby has a cold and the symptoms are serious, you can take your baby to a regular hospital in time.