How to take care of your baby’s cold and cough?

  Whenever you get a cold, most babies have a cough and parents have trouble sleeping and eating. Home care is also essential for coughing babies, so today we will introduce a few home remedies for coughing babies.  1. Elevate your baby’s head at night If your baby coughs incessantly while sleeping, elevate his or her head and the coughing symptoms will be relieved. Elevating the head is helpful for most coughs caused by infection because when lying down, secretions from the baby’s nose can easily flow down the throat, causing itchiness and aggravating the cough at night, while elevating the head reduces backward drainage of secretions. It is also necessary to change the sleeping position frequently, preferably to sleep on the left and right side in rotation to facilitate the discharge of respiratory secretions. Do not lie down to sleep immediately after feeding a coughing baby to prevent coughing from causing spitting up and mis-aspiration. In case of choking by accidental inhalation, you should immediately take the head-low-foot-high position, pat the back and encourage the baby to cough up the inhalation through coughing.  2.Water vapor coughing method The coughing baby’s symptoms will be relieved in an environment with a room temperature of about 20 degrees and humidity of about 60-65%. If your baby has a severe cough, let your baby inhale steam; or hold your baby in a bathroom full of steam for 5 minutes, the moist air will help your baby clear the mucus from the lungs and calm the cough.  3, hot water bag back cough method Hot water bag filled with about 40 degrees of hot water, wrapped with a thin towel outside, and then put on the baby’s back near the location of the lungs, which can accelerate the cold, can quickly stop the cough. This method is especially effective for coughing symptoms that appear in the early stages of cold and flu. Put on a few pieces of underwear for your baby and then apply it, and don’t burn your baby.  4. Hot drinks to stop coughing Drinking more warm plain water can make your baby’s sticky phlegm thin, relieve the tension in the respiratory mucosa, and promote coughing up phlegm. It is best to let the baby drink warm boiled water or warm milk, rice soup, etc. You can also give your baby fresh fruit juice, juice should be selected with less irritating apple juice and pear juice, etc., should not drink orange juice, grapefruit juice and other citrus juice.