A 5-month-old baby with a cold doesn’t need medication if it’s just a mild cold symptom with nasal congestion or sneezing. Feed your baby more warm boiled water, ginger water or onion water. You can give a little acetaminophen oral solution if your baby is irritable, feverish, and has a temperature over 38.5 degrees. Nasal congestion can use hot towels to compress the root of the nose, deal with foreign bodies in the nasal cavity, do not use adult antipyretics. Cold and fever is a child’s growth process, the process of strengthening resistance, cold is also a self-healing disease, the general course of treatment is 5-7 days. Before 6 months, the baby resistance is still very strong, because breast milk has the ability to help the baby to resist diseases and foreign infectious factors, if the cold is not serious, or do not take antipyretic medicine, let the baby’s own resistance to self-healing, you can also take pediatric aminophenol xuanamin granules treatment.