How to treat a child who keeps coughing?

Children have relatively poor disease resistance. When the weather turns warm and cold in spring, they are prone to catching colds. At this time, they may have symptoms such as coughing and runny nose. Once some children start coughing, it will have a certain impact on their normal sleep, which will make their mothers particularly worried. So, what should you do if your child keeps coughing?

1. Elevate your baby’s head at night

Babies with coughing symptoms often have more severe coughing symptoms after falling asleep at night. This is because after lying down, the secretions in the nasal cavity will flow into the throat. When the throat is irritated, coughing symptoms will occur frequently, which will seriously affect the child's sleep. So when the baby is sleeping at night, you may wish to raise the head slightly. This can prevent the secretions in the nasal cavity from flowing into the throat and prevent the cough from worsening.

2. Steam cough relief method

When the baby keeps coughing, you can put the baby in a room with a temperature of about 20 degrees and a humidity of about 65% to relieve the coughing symptoms. You can also let the baby stay in a steamy bathroom for about 5 minutes, which will help clear the mucus in the baby's lungs and relieve the cough.

3. Hot water bag hot compress back cough relief method

When the baby has coughing symptoms, you can also use a hot water bottle filled with 40 degrees hot water to apply to the baby's back, which has a good effect of dispelling cold, and is more effective for cough symptoms caused by colds. When using a hot water bottle to apply heat to the baby's back, you must pay attention to the appropriate water temperature, and it is best to wrap it with a towel to avoid scalding the baby.

4. Hot drink cough relief method

When your baby is always coughing, you might as well let him drink some warm milk, rice soup, etc., which can dilute the mucus and make the sticky phlegm in the throat easier to cough out.

5. Juice cough relief method

When your baby coughs, you can let him drink some fruit juice that can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, such as apple juice, pear juice, etc. You can also stew pears with rock sugar, which also has a good effect of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs and reducing phlegm. But don't drink orange juice or citrus juice, so as not to make the symptoms of internal heat worse.