Cough is a very common illness in babies, but there are many different types of coughs, and different types of coughs can be caused by different diseases. For younger babies, who are not yet articulate, parents need to determine the type of cough by the performance or sound of the cough and other accompanying symptoms in order to treat it properly. There are some coughs that need extra attention from parents. Here is a list of coughs that need attention and a few tips to help relieve your baby’s cough. What coughs should parents pay attention to? 1. Signs of laryngitis If your child coughs with a cracking or barking sound, accompanied by hoarseness, a whistle, a siren or a chicken sound in the throat when inhaling, and gradually worsens, be alert to the fact that this may be a sign of laryngitis. 2. Signs of asthma When coughing with wheezing in the throat, shortness of breath, painful expression and irritability, especially when coughing violently at night, you will wake up and have difficulty in sleeping, think whether your child has asthma. 3. Precursor symptoms of respiratory infectious diseases A cough accompanied by runny nose and fever, and similar symptoms in fellow children in the nursery or kindergarten, should be thought of as a viral upper respiratory tract infection of some infectious disease, or sometimes as a precursor symptom of some respiratory infectious disease, and should be promptly ruled out by a doctor. 4. Allergic cough The child’s cough is stronger at night than during the day, mostly dry with little sputum, without fever, and the onset will mostly be in the same season, with ineffective antibiotic treatment, often accompanied by eczema, allergic rhinitis and other allergies, then this cough may be an allergic cough. 5. Signs of pneumonia A child with a cough accompanied by fever, poor spirits, decreased appetite, shortness of breath, nasal agitation and blue lips should be considered to be suffering from pneumonia. 6. Signs of tuberculosis If a child has a dry cough, low fever in the afternoon, excessive sweating at night, poor appetite, progressive weight loss or no weight gain, and enlarged and adherent superficial lymph nodes, the child should be considered to have tuberculosis. If a child suddenly chokes and coughs while playing or eating, has difficulty breathing, and has blue lips, he or she should be careful if a foreign object is accidentally introduced into the trachea. 8. Pertussis signs If a baby coughs violently, and the cough is light in the morning and heavy in the evening, and continues to cough for more than a dozen times, and when the cough is violent, the child’s face is red, suffocating, and he or she cannot breathe, and finally there is an inspiratory cock-like tail in the throat, you should be careful if the child is suffering from whooping cough. 9. Bronchial dilatation signs If your child has a prolonged cough with a lot of sputum, sometimes thick sputum, often with blood or blood in the sputum, repeated episodes, or even frequent pneumonia in the same area, you should think about whether your child has bronchial dilatation. What should I do to relieve my baby’s cough? Here are a few tips to relieve your baby’s cough. 1. Inhale warm and humid air for your baby The room temperature should be 20°C and the indoor humidity should be maintained at 60% to 65%. It is best to hang a hygrometer in the room for easy observation. In the dry winter and spring, a humidifier can be used to humidify or dry wet clothes and wet towels indoors. If your baby coughs while awake, pick him up, stroke his back and pat him gently. If you cough incessantly while sleeping, elevate the upper half of your baby’s body to lie on its side, use a cushion or pillow on the back of your child’s shoulders, and let your baby sleep alternately on its left and right side, which facilitates the discharge of respiratory secretions. 3, elevate the baby’s head at night Elevate the baby’s head to reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. Pillows can be placed under the baby’s mattress to elevate his head. 4, hot water bags on the back to stop coughing Hot water bags on the back can relieve the symptoms of coughing. Fill a hot water bag with hot water around 40℃, wrap it with a thin towel outside, and then put it on the back near the lungs, which can accelerate the cold and stop the coughing soon. 5. External rubbing to stop coughing Use a mixture of fresh ginger or garlic sliced with egg white and rub it on the sternum from top to bottom, twice a day for a few minutes each time. 6.Hot drinks to stop coughing Drinking more warm drinks can make the sticky phlegm become thin and easy to cough out. It is best to let the child drink warm water or warm milk, rice soup, etc. You can also feed the child with warm water fresh fruit juice. Juice should be apple juice or pear juice, etc. Avoid feeding orange juice, grapefruit juice and other citrus juices. The above is a list of the types of cough that parents need to pay special attention to and a few tips to relieve coughing in babies. If your baby has a serious cough, it is best to take him or her to the hospital.