What to do if your four-month-old baby coughs and has phlegm

If a four-month-old baby coughs and has phlegm, he can be fed with Western medicine such as ambroxol hydrochloride oral solution for treatment, or Chinese patent medicines such as children's cough and phlegm granules can be used to help improve the condition. At the same time, parents can use back patting and steaming to relieve the baby's symptoms, and can also make honey and pear water and similar dietary recipes to feed the child, and pay attention to keeping the room ventilated.

Four-month-old babies generally have poor immunity and are prone to coughing and phlegm due to infection or lung heat and dryness. If the situation is more serious, the cough may persist, which will undoubtedly make parents very worried, so active treatment is required. So how can a four-month-old baby's cough with phlegm be cured?
1. How to treat a four-month-old baby's cough with phlegm
1. Western medicine therapy: When the baby has symptoms of coughing and phlegm, parents must take him to the pediatric outpatient clinic for examination in time. The baby can be fed with acetylcysteine ​​granules and ambroxol hydrochloride oral solution, and vitamin D preparations can be added to play a significant role in relieving cough and reducing phlegm.
2. Chinese medicine therapy: Chinese medicine is the most effective treatment for infant cough and phlegm. The specific treatment principles are clearing away heat and resolving phlegm and clearing the lungs and relieving cough. Parents need to feed the child with drugs such as children's cough and phlegm granules, fresh bamboo sap oral liquid and children's magan granules on time. If it is caused by lung heat, children's lung heat cough and asthma oral liquid can also be used.
How to care for a four-month-old baby with cough and phlegm
1. Patting the back: In addition to giving cough suppressants, babies should also be patted on the back to help improve the cough. The specific method is to let the baby take an arched back position, and then pat the back from bottom to top. Each time, patting can last for 3-5 minutes, which can loosen phlegm and improve lung blood circulation.
2. Diet therapy: If the baby can start eating complementary foods, parents can boil honey and pear water, Sichuan loquat and rock sugar water or white radish and pear juice for the baby to drink to play a therapeutic role, thereby improving the symptoms of coughing and sputum.
3. Steam method: Parents can hold the baby in a steam-filled environment for about 5 minutes. When the baby inhales humid air, the phlegm in the throat can be thinned and it can also help reduce congestion and edema in the trachea.
4. Keep the room ventilated: The environment has a great impact on cough symptoms, so parents need to pay attention to keeping the air in the house fresh, open windows for ventilation frequently, and maintain a certain humidity in the room.