What to do if your five-month-old baby coughs

When a five-month-old baby coughs, he can take some medicines to clear lung heat, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, or he can choose nebulization to relieve cough. Garlic water, pear water, radish water, tangerine peel water, three-bean drink, loquat and other dietary treatments also have a good effect of reducing phlegm and relieving cough, and you can also let your baby try them.

A five-month-old baby has a relatively poor disease resistance. If they do not take good measures to keep warm when the weather changes suddenly, they may catch a cold and cough. If they drink less water and wear more clothes, they may get angry and cough. So, what should I do if my five-month-old baby coughs?
1. Drug treatment of children's cough
1. Oral medication: If your baby coughs repeatedly, it may be caused by lung heat. At this time, you can use some medicines that clear heat, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, such as Children's Lung Heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid. This is a Chinese patent medicine and has little harm to the baby, so you can rest assured that your baby can take it to relieve the condition.
2. Nebulizer treatment: When the baby's cough is not getting better and there is a lot of sputum, nebulizer treatment can be used. Budesonide and other drugs can be nebulized to let the baby inhale the ingredients of these drugs. It can effectively relieve cough symptoms and help cough up sputum.
2. Diet therapy to relieve children's cough
1. Drink garlic water: From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, garlic can warm the stomach, help digestion and regulate qi. From the perspective of Western medicine, garlic has certain bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore, when the baby has cough symptoms due to a cold, you can boil garlic in water. The baby can drink small amounts more often, which will help improve the cough.
2. Drink pear juice: Because pears are cool in nature, eating them properly can relieve cough and reduce phlegm. So when your baby has a cough due to a cold or a fever, you can drink more pear juice, which can also relieve the cough symptoms.
3. Drinking radish water: Radish has the effect of clearing away heat, promoting salivation, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Therefore, when a five-month-old baby coughs, you can boil radish in water and drink it, or you can drink some radish soup, radish ginger juice, etc., which can alleviate the condition.
4. Drinking tangerine peel water: Because tangerine peel can strengthen the spleen and aid digestion, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, so when the baby coughs, you can drink some tangerine peel water appropriately, which can play a good role in relieving cough and reducing phlegm.
5. Drink three-bean drink: Three-bean drink is made by boiling red beans, mung beans and black beans in water. It can not only effectively clear away heat and relieve cough, but also improve the body's immunity.
6. Eat loquat: Loquat has a good cough-relieving effect, so when your baby has a cough, you can eat some loquat appropriately, which can also effectively relieve the cough symptoms.