The climate in spring is cool in the morning and hot at noon, plus there are often changes, so it is easy to catch a cold if you don’t add or remove clothes properly, especially for small children who have weak resistance. So, what should you do when you have a spring cold? Recently, as the weather turns cooler, the number of babies with colds in outpatient clinics is also increasing, and parents are confused as to why their babies always catch colds. Is there any way to strengthen the resistance? Can I take antibiotics after getting a cold? How can I prevent my baby from being infected when someone in my family has a cold? Today, we will answer these questions for you. What is spring cold Spring is the season when everything comes to life and the temperature starts to warm up gradually, but it is also the season when colds are more frequent. Some mothers respond that their babies don’t get well after taking cold medicine, but the cold is getting worse. Spring colds are different from other seasons, as they can be caused by different triggers such as high humidity, viruses and rapid temperature changes, and if they are not treated differently, they are likely to get worse. According to the different symptoms of Chinese medicine, colds can be divided into three categories: “wind-heat”, “wind-cold” and “summer-damp”. The most common type of cold that babies get in the spring is “wind-heat cold”, which belongs to the “wind-heat evidence” of the cold. According to Chinese medicine, spring is windy and the climate turns warm, so the wind and warmth of the evil multi-phase and cause disease. For this kind of cold, mothers can heat the vinegar at home in spring, close the doors and windows, and smoke every two weeks, which can effectively kill the cold virus and microorganisms. 2, early spring, the temperature is hot and cold erratic easy to get cold, resulting in “wind-cold cold”. To prevent cold and wind, you should eat vinegar more often. In early spring, you can give your baby some drinking vinegar apple cider vinegar drink is to improve the immunity and strengthen the body. 3, “internal fire is strong, cold and flu born”. There is a folk saying, called “internal fire, the cold is born”, that is to say, the external cold is only the cause of the cold, the “internal fire” in the body is the basis for the occurrence of the cold. If your baby’s diet is overloaded with fats, oils and snacks, “internal fire” can be formed, which causes low immune function and can easily cause a cold when it encounters external cold or cold virus. Symptoms of spring colds Babies are fragile, sometimes sneezing and occasionally coughing, mothers immediately get nervous and wonder if their babies have a cold. In fact, mothers do not have to be overly sensitive, if the baby is slightly abnormal to feed medicine, it is harmful to the baby’s body. The symptoms of a baby’s cold are usually coughing as the main symptom. Moms must pay attention to whether the baby has phlegm, as the baby will not spit, mainly based on whether there is phlegm sound in the throat. At the same time, the baby cold may also appear some of the following symptoms: 1, the incubation period of the cold is mostly 2-3 days, mild symptoms only nasal symptoms, such as runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing, etc.. 2, severe cases of body temperature up to 39-40 ℃, accompanied by a sharp decrease in appetite, sleep disturbance, the occurrence of herpes and ulcers, called vesicular pharyngitis. Sometimes the tonsils are affected and follicular purulent exudate appears. Both sore throat and systemic symptoms are added, and nasopharyngeal discharge changes from thin to thick as the inflammation spreads to the sinuses, middle ear, or trachea. Among the more severe symptoms, hyperthermia and acute abdominal pain should be noted and differentially diagnosed from other diseases. Most febrile convulsions due to colds are seen in infants and young children, several times in a row for 1 to 2 days after the onset of the illness. Acute abdominal pain is sometimes severe, mostly around the umbilicus, without pressure pain, often early, mostly temporary and probably related to hyperactive bowel movements; but it can also persist, sometimes similar to the symptoms of appendicitis, mostly due to complications of acute mesenteric lymphadenitis. The first reaction of many young parents is to “hurry up and buy medicine to eat” when their baby has a cold and fever and a runny nose. Pediatricians point out that babies should not rush to take cold medicine after catching a cold. 90% of common colds are caused by viral attacks and are self-limiting diseases that can generally improve within 7 days, so drink more water, rest more and treat according to the discomfort symptoms. Even if you want to buy cold medicine, you should read the ingredients of all kinds of cold medicine to avoid overdose. How to deal with baby’s spring cold? 1. Drink more water for your baby and make sure your baby has enough rest. 2, try to use physical methods to reduce the baby’s fever. You can use warm water baths, forehead fever patches, ice packs. 3, deal with the baby’s nasal congestion. The nasal congestion is often caused by the blockage of secretions, the mother just need to use a small cotton swab to clean it. To prepare a special cotton swab for babies, and then drip some water into the baby’s nasal cavity, with cotton swabs to gently clean up. Be careful not to stick the cotton swab directly into the baby’s nasal cavity. 4, do not use a variety of cold medicine, so as not to overlap the active ingredients of drugs lead to overdose, causing harm to the child. Common cold medicines for babies are: ibuprofen, paracetamol, ribavirin, artificial oxymoron, etc. 5, the baby cold to fill the main. The diet during the cold is very important, if the diet is not proper it is easy to relapse. The diet is mainly light, vegetarian food is the first, it is appropriate to first thin and then thick, first less and then more.