What to do if your 4-month-old baby coughs

Coughing is a common respiratory disease in babies. If the temperature changes greatly and parents do not add or remove clothes for their children in time, the baby may develop coughing symptoms. If the baby has a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases, it is often accompanied by coughing symptoms. Therefore, when a child coughs, he should be treated in time. So, what should I do if my 4-month-old baby coughs?

1. Massage <br/>When a four-month-old baby has coughing symptoms, you can try to massage the baby to relieve the symptoms. The massage methods for coughs caused by different reasons are different.
1. Wind-cold cough <br/>If the baby has a wind-cold cough, the sputum coughed up is usually thin and white in color, and the baby has symptoms of fever and chills, but no sweat. At this time, you can massage the baby's Fengchi, Hegu and temples, which can effectively relieve the cough symptoms.
2. Wind-heat cough <br/>If the baby has a wind-heat cough, he will cough up yellow phlegm, have a sore throat, fever, and sweat. At this time, you can massage the baby's Liufu, Dazhui, Jianjing and other acupoints, which can also effectively relieve the symptoms.

3. Dry cough without phlegm <br/>If the baby only has a dry cough without phlegm, or with very little phlegm, you can massage the Neilaogong point, Yongquan point, and Shenshu point, which can also effectively relieve the symptoms.
2. Diet therapy
1. Pear juice <br/>If a four-month-old baby has a wind-heat cough, you can boil water with duck pears, almonds, and rock sugar, and let the baby drink some pear juice, which can effectively clear away heat and relieve cough.
2. Perilla and radish water <br/>If a four-month-old baby has a wind-heat cough, you can also boil perilla, tangerine peel, and white radish peel in water, and finally add an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Let the baby drink it while it is hot. This water can also play a good role in relieving cough.
3. Fritillaria and pear water <br/>If a 4-month-old baby has a long cough and it is a dry cough with little sputum, you can boil Fritillaria cirrhosa, pear and rock sugar in water. Let the child drink some of this water, which can also effectively relieve the symptoms.

3. Drug treatment <br/>If the baby's cough is severe and the above methods are not effective, symptomatic treatment should be given to the cause of the cough. If it is caused by a viral cold, ribavirin, children's cough syrup and other drugs can be used for treatment under the guidance of a doctor. If it is caused by bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases, cephalosporin, fresh bamboo juice and other drugs can be used for treatment, and ambroxol hydrochloride nebulization inhalation can be used in combination.