What should I do if my four-month-old baby has a runny nose and cough? How should I use medicine if my four-month-old baby has a runny nose and cough?

If a 4-month-old baby has a runny nose and cough, parents should let the baby wear more clothes to keep warm. A professional doctor can also choose drug granules for treatment to see if there is any recovery effect. In addition, the child's diet during breastfeeding is also very important. The mother should eat less junk food and spicy food.

Children are prone to runny nose and coughing. The main reason is that the body temperature center is in a very changeable state, and it is easy to catch a cold and have a fever due to sudden changes in the outside temperature. As a parent, if you want to deal with these problems, you should think of countermeasures in advance to prevent the runny nose, cold and cough symptoms from worsening. So what should I do if my four-month-old baby has a runny nose and cough?

1. Wear more clothes to keep warm

If a baby has runny nose and cough, it may be due to cold. Parents should pay attention to keeping warm and not let the child move around in a very cold environment. If the surrounding temperature is too low, the child can move around indoors and wear more clothes. Adding or removing clothes appropriately in the morning and evening will help protect the baby's body temperature central system and reduce the symptoms of coughing and runny nose.

2. Use special children's acetaminophen granules

If the child's cough and runny nose symptoms are more obvious, daily care alone may not have much obvious treatment effect. At this time, a professional doctor can analyze it and then choose children's special anti-cough and cold medicine for treatment, which will have a better recovery effect. However, parents should also pay attention to follow the doctor's instructions and control the dosage of the medicine. If the medicine is used too much, it is easy to cause side effects, and the child's body cannot absorb it, so it is difficult to achieve the desired effect.

3. If you are breastfeeding, the mother should try to eat less spicy food

If you cannot control your appetite right after giving birth and eat too much spicy, greasy or heavy-tasting food, it may cause abnormal secretion of breast substances, and harmful ingredients will participate in the synthesis of breast milk. After the baby absorbs it, it may also lead to increased infectious problems and be more detrimental to the treatment of cough and runny nose. Avoid irritating ingredients in breast milk that may harm the baby. Therefore, after giving birth, the mother should focus on nutritious food, such as ginseng chicken soup, kiwi, apple, celery, spinach, eel, yam, etc.