What to do if your four-month-old baby with pneumonia won’t take milk

A four-month-old baby with pneumonia who refuses to take milk can improve his symptoms by increasing the number of feedings, giving nutritional support, and treating the original disease. 1. Increase the frequency of breastfeeding: Because pneumonia can cause the baby’s bowel movements to slow down, which affects the baby’s appetite, parents can increase the frequency of breastfeeding to improve the problem of reduced milk intake. You can also give your baby some lukewarm water in small amounts to replenish the water lost due to fever. 2. Nutritional support: If your baby’s milk intake drops severely, you can give your baby energy support through a nasal feeding tube to ensure the body’s metabolic needs. 3. Treatment of primary disease: to actively treat the primary disease, baby pneumonia once diagnosed, to follow the doctor’s instructions to give a sufficient amount of medication, full course of treatment, to be better or cured after the pneumonia, refused to eat the milk symptoms will also slowly improve. The baby suffering from pneumonia should be timely consultation, in accordance with the doctor’s instructions for targeted treatment, the disease is relieved, the symptoms of not eating milk will gradually ease or disappear.