How to reduce frequent colds in babies.
A. Be vigilant during the disease prone phase
Don’t be complacent that your baby’s resistance is strong because he or she hasn’t been sick since birth, and don’t think that you can guarantee that your baby won’t get sick if you insist on breastfeeding. It is true that babies before six months of age are not yet at a high risk of disease. Once six months have passed, the mother’s immunoglobulins in the baby’s body are completely depleted and the high incidence of disease begins.
Breastfed babies may be relatively more resistant, but it varies from person to person depending on the body type. Some babies may be artificially fed and not get sick as much, while others are breastfed and often get sick. You can’t blame breast milk for this. You should believe that breast milk is always the best food for babies. It’s just individual differences and different care methods. Think about it, if your baby does not eat breast milk, maybe the chances of getting sick will be higher. That’s a long way from the topic.
So, after six months, babies need to be more vigilant than they used to be with their daily care. It’s not always the case that you won’t get sick in the past, so don’t be careless. Especially in the spring, the season of hot and cold, are the high incidence of colds and various diseases, we should pay special attention and pay attention from the mind.
Second, less clothing, less covered
In fact, after eight months, the most important adjustment in care is to reduce his clothes and covers, so that he is no longer always surrounded by a warm and sweaty environment.
(When the baby wakes up from a nap, there is less heat in the baby’s body, so take special care that the baby does not catch a cold.) When the sun is shining at noon, the vest will be removed as well. Little hands gradually become warm and moist. This is a healthy body temperature performance.
In fact, it takes courage and correct judgment to reduce clothes and quilts for babies, and MMs are always worried that their babies will catch a cold. The standard is to feel the baby’s hands after reducing the clothes and quilts, warm is the appropriate temperature. When sleeping, the feet are also warm, but not sweating, is the most comfortable temperature. The baby’s own heat dissipation and perspiration function is not perfect, adults will feel hot, sweaty and uncomfortable if they wear more clothes, while the baby is not necessarily. He can’t talk, he can only be so hot. If a baby wears too much clothing for a long time, it is not a good thing if the palms of the hands are often hot, especially dry and hot, without sweating. This will not take long, the baby will have heat in the lungs and stomach, reducing resistance and triggering respiratory infections.
Three, rather eat less than eat more
The mother, who loves her baby immensely, likes to see her baby eat more and wants to let her baby eat all the food in the world. This way is certainly not wrong, but the key is the amount must be mastered.
Each meal is strictly controlled, thick food can not exceed half a small bowl, very thin food can be a little more; daily amount of vegetables slightly increased, but less meat and vegetables, firmly not more than 1 tbsp, one day feel his digestion is not good when not eaten. Eat more fish and less meat in the meat and vegetable category. If necessary, you can cut out one complementary meal, but not milk and fruit. This is easy to digest, but also to ensure the nutrition.
In fact, the baby’s digestive system is also closely related to his immune system. If too much food is consumed, it will inevitably cause overload of the digestive and metabolic systems, and overload the kidneys and liver. Soon the food will accumulate into stagnant heat and stay in the body, preventing normal circulation, reducing resistance and causing disease.
As the old saying goes, “To have a child’s peace, three points of hunger and cold”. Indeed, how many generations of people raising children passed down the truth ah.
Fourth, water is the source of health
As we all know, water is a good thing, water can cure all diseases. But when it comes to small babies, sometimes drinking water becomes a very difficult task. Many mothers will think, drinking water is too much effort, do not love to drink even if, anyway, drink so milk, also counted as water. This is not true. The role of water is irreplaceable. After the addition of complementary foods, the baby must add water every day. A little older babies, because the food ingredients eaten gradually close to adults, must drink water every day. Generally 150 cc is the baby’s daily water needs.
The best way to drink water is of course plain water, but many babies may not accept plain water at all. My method is to give him juice and water, at first 1 to 1, then the more blended the lighter, the juice is getting less and less, almost close to plain water. Now, he has developed the habit of drinking water, when he will actively want to drink, and can also drink some plain water. Every day I will also boil some pear water for him to drink, put a couple of Sichuan peel and red dates. Little baby’s physique is generally hot type, easy to fire, often drink some pear water, moisten the lungs to dispel fire, but also play a health role.
For the baby who refuses to drink water, must not always go along with him, to find ways to change this bad habit, such as using juice with water or with a small spoon to feed. Little baby’s habits are dependent on parents to cultivate, if he does not drink water at 10 months, then by the age of one he does not drink, to two years old, three years old, if the habit of drinking water has not been developed, is very bad for health.
Drink more plain water, I think this is also an important reason for increased resistance and less illness. Moreover, the kidney function of small babies is not fully developed, often due to improper feeding kidney function is somewhat affected. Drinking water is also an important means of enhancing kidney function and filtering out toxins. The body’s metabolic system function is enhanced, the digestive system, the immune system are subsequently functioning well.
Five, when there is the first sign of illness to take measures, careful care
In fact, in many cases, when the baby has signs of illness, if the mother can carefully observe and take effective measures in time, it is possible to avoid illness.
For example, your baby starts to have a clear nose. This is obviously a precursor to a cold. If you can detect it when it starts to flow a little, it is definitely better than not knowing it until a day later. In fact, little babies also sneeze when they are irritated by airborne dust, and it is not always a cold. I would keep a close eye on him to see if he has a sniffle. If not, there is no need to make a fuss. If there is, even a little, it’s time to pay attention.
Drinking water boiled with white onion is an effective means to prevent further progression of the condition when your baby first starts to sniffle. I have read in some moms’ forums that babies who drank boiled water with white onion for a day stopped having a runny nose and, of course, the cold ended. The cooking method is very simple: use a section of white onion from the root of the onion, about the length of your finger, and boil it with water for about half an hour, making about 300 cc. You can put rock sugar to taste.
If there are some slight signs of cough, Chuanbei pear water or Chuanbei steamed pear is a good dietary treatment. When the disease is not yet initiated, grab more pear water, usually will have obvious effect.
If you are still afraid of cold and also cough, you may want to boil the two kinds of water together. I usually put a section of white onion in the Sichuan pear water, you can also add a piece of radish, both to prevent colds, and nutrition.
But there are two points to note: First, to control the development of the disease, drink enough water must be enough, usually more than 300 cc per day to be effective. If your baby has obvious symptoms, you may try to make him drink more than 100CC of water within two hours, which may have the miracle effect of cutting off the disease. Secondly, regardless of onion white water or Chuanbei pear water, are health effects or auxiliary therapeutic effects, before the disease is not initiated is effective, once the development of the disease, relying on these alone is not therapeutic effect, must be combined with drug therapy or timely to the hospital, so as not to delay the disease.
For example, if your baby’s bowel movements change from once to twice a day, if there are unchanged substances inside, or if your baby’s tongue suddenly becomes white and thick, this is a sign that your baby’s digestive system is not functioning properly. At this time, you should reduce the amount of food for your baby and try to feed things that are easy to digest and absorb, such as fruits, vegetables, egg custard and rice soup. Don’t be afraid to continue feeding your baby a lot of meat, fish, shrimp, etc. for fear of incomplete nutrition. You should know that eating less for a day or two will never affect your baby’s nutrition, but will reduce his gastrointestinal burden and improve immunity, which is good for your health.
Usually feel that the baby digestion is not very good, thick tongue, you can feed him twice Wang’s Bao Chi Wan, strengthen the spleen to dispel stagnation. Or feed some gold diflucan, lactobacillus tablets and so on, to enhance digestion. Of course, feeding yogurt is also a good way to improve indigestion.
Babies with poor digestion tend to accumulate food, and their resistance to food will be reduced, and they will easily catch a cold if they get cold. So when there are signs of indigestion, we should pay attention to it and take measures, which can really prevent illness effectively.
Six, increase the baby’s outdoor indoor activities
The benefits of exposing your baby to more fresh air and sunlight and enhancing outdoor activities are well known to mothers. Outdoor activities are the most effective means of improving the resistance of the respiratory mucosa to disease. Even in winter, in less severe weather, it is essential to expose your baby to the cold outdoor air properly, while keeping warm.
The importance of outdoor activities goes without saying, but indoor activities are equally important. In comparison, babies spend more time at home than outside. Be sure to let your baby move more, such as crawling, walking, jumping, etc., not always let him sit and play. Especially after each meal, a little stable half an hour, it is best to let the baby move around. With more activity, your baby’s body will be exercised, and not only will his appetite and digestion be better, but he will also drink more water than before. It is very normal for your baby to sweat profusely after activity, and this normal sweating and excretion is beneficial to his health.
About colostrum
I think the immune effect of colostrum is not ideal. Of course, there are individual differences in babies, maybe some babies are still very effective with colostrum. So this opinion is only for reference, I hope it will not cause colostrum manufacturers to resent.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of things that you can do to avoid getting sick, such as not blowing after sweating, not getting cold when you sleep, etc. These are some of the oldest common sense of care, so I won’t go over them here.
Lastly, I would like to tell all the mothers that they should not be too nervous about their little ones being sick. Even if we take good care of them, children always get sick. 3-4 colds per year are normal and a sign of the improvement of their own immune system. A mother’s heart is incredibly soft, and it’s only human to be anxious when your baby is sick. But what we need to learn, in addition to doing our best to avoid avoidable illnesses, is to treat your baby’s illnesses with a lighter heart and actively care for and treat him. Know that your baby will soon be back to his old healthy, lively and cute self.
Also enclosed are recipes for babies with colds.
Yin deficiency baby recipe: lily and wolfberry pork porridge
Babies with Yin deficiency are usually thin, sweaty in bed, easily upset, easily thirsty, red tongue and little tongue coating. These babies are prone to catch cold and flu due to excessive sweating, so it is recommended to eat “lily and wolfberry pork porridge” to nourish.
Ingredients: 20-30 grams of lily, 10 grams of wolfberry, minced pork and rice.
How to do: first boil the rice into porridge, then add lily, wolfberry, minced pork together until cooked.
Recipes for babies with qi deficiency: yam and pork porridge
Babies with qi deficiency are usually fat, fat, have thin tongue coating, tongue is not red, these babies are weak, also easy to catch a cold, suitable recipe is “yam and pork porridge”.
Ingredients: 20 grams of yam (or raw yam sliced), minced pork and rice.
Directions: Boil rice into porridge first, then cook yam and minced pork together until they are cooked.
For babies who already have a cold, they need to be regulated by a light and nutritious diet.
Cold and flu baby recipe: white onion and japonica rice porridge
If your baby has the following symptoms in the early stage of cold and flu: cough, sputum and thin, clear and thin nose, white tongue coating, white and dry stools, a lot of urine, and does not like to drink water, it is usually a cold and flu, mostly due to cold and catching cold. At this time, a suitable recipe for babies is “white onion and japonica rice porridge.”
Ingredients: 5-6 pieces of white onion (root of green onion), 6-7 pieces of ginger, japonica rice.
How to do it: first boil japonica rice into porridge, at the same time put white onion into the porridge, when it is almost ready add ginger and cook for 5-10 minutes and then remove from the fire.
Fever and cold baby recipe: mint and burdock congee
If your baby’s symptoms at the beginning of the cold are: coughing up phlegm, sore throat, love to drink water, sticky nose, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and faster than usual pulse, it is usually a hot cold. At this time, you need to cook “mint and burdock porridge” for your baby.
Ingredients: 6 grams of peppermint, 10 grams of burdock seeds, and the right amount of round-grained rice.
How to do it: Boil the burdock seeds for 15 minutes, take out the seeds and leave the juice for later. Boil the stalk rice into porridge, put in mint after 10 minutes, and when the porridge is almost ready, put in burdock seed juice and water, and cook for 5 minutes.
Healthy baby cold prevention recipe: Yu Ping Feng San
Ingredients: 10 grams of American ginseng or Radix Codonopsis, 10 grams of Atractylodes Macrocephalae, 6 grams of Fenghuang.
Directions: Boil water with American ginseng or Radix et Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Fructus Anemarrhenae, and then take the juice and drink it as tea. You can also take Yu Ping Feng Oral Liquid, which can help your baby effectively prevent colds and improve immunity.