What to do if a nine-month-old baby coughs and has phlegm? There are 4 common treatment methods for a nine-month-old baby coughing and having phlegm.

When a nine-month-old baby coughs and produces phlegm, you can pat his back gently to promote the discharge of phlegm, and insist on feeding him boiled water every day, or boil rock sugar and pear water for him to drink. At the same time, you can use steam therapy to improve the symptoms of bronchial mucosal congestion and edema. If necessary, it is best to take children's cough syrup and children's phlegm-removing and cough-relieving granules and other drugs for treatment.

When a baby is nine months old, the immune system is not fully developed yet and the baby is prone to various diseases, among which coughing and phlegm are the most common symptoms. At this time, parents will be particularly worried and hope that the baby can get better as soon as possible. So how can we effectively relieve the cough and phlegm of a nine-month-old baby?

1. Pat the back

When a nine-month-old baby has symptoms of coughing and phlegm, the back patting method can be used to improve the condition. Specifically, the baby needs to lie on his thighs, keep his back arched, and then gently pat his back with the palm of your hand, from bottom to top and from outside to inside. Each patting can last about 3-5 minutes, which can promote the flow and discharge of phlegm and help local blood circulation, thereby improving symptoms such as coughing and phlegm.

2. Drinking water method

Children with coughs are prone to symptoms of airway dehydration, which in turn aggravates respiratory inflammation and secretion viscosity. Therefore, parents are advised to feed their children as much boiled water as possible, and it is best to use cold boiled water at a temperature of about 23 degrees, which can moisten the throat and dilute secretions, which is conducive to eliminating inflammation. In addition, you can also boil some rock sugar and snow pear water for feeding, which can play a therapeutic role such as cough relief.

3. Steam method

The steam method helps to thin the sputum, promote its discharge, and effectively reduce the congestion and edema of the bronchial and tracheal mucosa, and relieve cough symptoms. Parents can hold the child in a steam-filled bathroom for a few minutes, or let the baby's nose close to a cup of boiling water so that the baby can inhale moist air.

4. Drug Law

If the cough with phlegm is severe, it is necessary to use cough and expectorant drugs under the guidance of a professional pediatrician in time. It is generally recommended to feed children with lung heat cough oral liquid, children cough syrup and children phlegm cough granules and other Chinese patent medicines. If the cough is caused by wind-heat invasion, it is necessary to use snake gall and Fritillaria liquid. However, antibiotics and similar Western medicines should be avoided as much as possible to prevent major side effects.