90% of infants' colds, coughs and expectorations are caused by viruses, and viral colds have a natural course. At present, there is no specific medicine that can be cured, mainly relying on the immune cells in the baby's body to resist. Generally speaking, if the baby only has mild symptoms of cough and expectoration, in many cases, parents only need to do relevant nursing, massage, diet therapy and expectoration, and the baby can get better without taking medicine.
2 under what circumstances, it will be better for the baby to cough with phlegm and not take medicine, which meets the following mild symptoms. Cough with phlegm, the baby generally does not take medicine, after the following diet and massage will be better.
1, the baby has a slight cough with phlegm, but a little stuffy nose, runny nose and a slight cough.
2, the baby's activity ability and mental state are not bad, rarely vomiting and diarrhea, no need to take medicine.
Attachment: Children with the following symptoms of cough and phlegm need to see a doctor immediately. Parents should take their children to see a doctor as soon as they have cold symptoms.
2. Parents should take their older children to the hospital immediately if one of the following situations occurs:
(1) The cold lasts for more than 5 days;
(2) The child has earache, headache and chills;
(3) The body temperature exceeds 39 degrees;
(4) Breathing frequency is obviously accelerated, making it difficult to breathe;
(5) persistent cough, no improvement in phlegm or severe cough;
(6) refusing to eat or drink milk;
(7) yellow-green, sticky nose;
(8) There is still no improvement beyond the normal course of disease.
How long does it take for the baby to cough with phlegm and not take medicine? Usually about 7 days, the baby has a slight cough and phlegm, and it will be fine without taking medicine.
A common mild cold with cough and phlegm is mostly a self-healing disease, which usually takes 7- 10 days. Its pathogenesis is as follows:
1, the first 3 days: the virus was active, and the baby had symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, cough, chills and headache.
2, 3 days later: the body recognizes the virus, the baby has fever, the cough is aggravated, and the nose is increased.
3, 6 days later: immune, the baby showed a good mental state, not afraid of cold, thick nose, phlegm outflow, is mucus wrapped in necrotic cells, representing the end of the virus phase.
4. Some babies still have slight dry cough after 2-3 weeks. As long as the cough is not heavy, drink plenty of water and pay attention to rest.
4 baby coughs with phlegm and does not take medicine to do these things quickly. Even if the baby has a cold, a cough and a lot of phlegm, as long as he can play, play games and run with children, there is no need to worry. Parents can take care of their babies in the following ways to make them better.
Dietotherapy can relieve cough and eliminate phlegm. Parents can cooperate with dietotherapy to help their baby stop cough and resolve phlegm, and then cooperate with back patting, which will get twice the result with half the effort. However, dietotherapy must pay attention to symptomatic treatment and distinguish whether the baby has a cold or a wind-heat cold. Recommend the following dietary therapies to parents:
1, cold and cough-it is advisable to eat warm, expectorant and cough-relieving food.
(1) steamed garlic water
Practice: 2-3 cloves of garlic, mashed into a bowl, added with a crystal sugar, half a bowl of water, covered with water and steamed. After the fire boils, steam on low heat 15 minutes.
Edible: after drying, let the baby drink water, 2-3 times a day, half a bowl each time.
Efficacy: Garlic is warm and enters the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. Treating cold and cough, kidney deficiency and cough is very effective, and it is convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.
(2) Baked oranges
Practice: Bake the oranges on a small fire until the orange peel turns black, and let the baby eat orange meat after drying.
Edible: 2-3 petals once, 2-3 times a day.
Efficacy: Oranges are warm and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. After eating baked oranges, the amount of sputum will be significantly reduced, and the antitussive effect is very obvious.
(3) Jiang Mo sesame oil scrambled eggs.
Practice: Put a teaspoon of sesame oil in the pot, heat the oil, put it in Jiang Mo, then beat an egg and mix well.
Eating: Eat it while it is hot before going to bed at night.
Efficacy: relieving cough and resolving phlegm, insisting on eating for a few days, the effect is obvious.
(4) coriander and soybean soup
Practice: Add10g of soybeans to water and cook for15min, then add 30g of coriander and cook for15min, and remove residues and add a little salt.
Eating: Give it to your baby several times a day.
Efficacy: relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
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2, wind and heat cough-you should eat some foods that clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
(1) Steamed Pear with Rock Sugar in North Sichuan
Practice: cut the pear horizontally, remove the core, add 2-3 crystal sugar and 5-6 crushed Fritillaria, and steam the pear in a bowl for 30 minutes.
Edible: Take it twice a day.
Efficacy: It has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
(2) white radish water
Practice: Wash the white radish, cut it into 4-5 pieces, put it in a pot, add half a bowl of water, and boil it for 5 minutes.
Edible: Drink after cooling slightly.
Efficacy: This prescription has a good effect on wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, especially for babies under two years old.
(3) horseshoe water
Practice: 3-4 horseshoes are peeled and sliced, and a bowl of water is boiled for about 5 minutes.
Edible: Give your baby water, and horseshoes can also be eaten.
Efficacy: It can clear lung heat, and has the effect of promoting fluid production, moistening lung and resolving phlegm.
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3, internal injury cough-you should eat more nourishing food, regulate your baby's spleen and stomach, and improve your baby's physique.
(1) yam porridge
Practice: peel the yam and stir it into powder, add half a bowl of water to make it into a thin paste, and pour it into the pot to burn.
Eat: Eat a bowl of yam porridge 2-3 times on an empty stomach.
Efficacy: Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach and replenish lung qi. It can not only relieve cough and asthma, but also has a good effect on anorexia, hyperhidrosis, drooling, qi deficiency and timidity in children.
Note: yam should not be cooked for a long time, otherwise the ingredients will be lost.
(2) jujube and ginkgo water
Practice: 3 pieces of red dates, 3 pieces of ginkgo biloba, half a bowl of water, slow fire 10 minutes, give it to the baby before going to bed.
Edible: This prescription is suitable for infants over 2 years old.
Efficacy: jujube is warm, benefiting qi, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach; Ginkgo biloba has the functions of astringing lung qi, relieving cough and asthma, and strengthening kidney. It is very effective for children with persistent cough, repeated colds, cough and fever, and can also treat enuresis.
(3) walnut sesame health cream
Practice: half a catty of walnut kernel, 2 ounces of black sesame seeds and half a catty of red dates are ground into powder and put into a large bowl. Add 1 tbsp honey and 3 tbsp water and mix well. Cover the bowl, steam in a large pot, bring the water to a boil, and turn to low heat for 40 minutes.
Edible: Give your baby a spoonful every morning and evening. Within a year, the baby can use white sugar instead of honey.
Efficacy: Walnut, sesame and jujube are all foods to enhance physical fitness, and honey is moist, which has a certain effect on baby's chronic cough, bronchitis and asthma.
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Massage and resolving phlegm The correct massage technique can help the baby strengthen the stomach and spleen, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. Here are some massage techniques for parents to use when their baby coughs and has phlegm:
(1) Qingfei Meridian: 500 times in 5 minutes.
Location: the baby's ring finger surface refers to the root to the fingertip.
Manipulation: Push points with the side of thumb or the pulp of finger in a straight line.
Function: purging the exterior of pyrolysis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
(2) Inbound gossip: 500 times in 5 minutes.
Location: On the baby's palm, draw a circle with the palm (Laogong point) as the center, the horizontal stripe from the center to the middle finger root as the center, and the intersection of the inner 2/3 and the outer 1/3 as the radius, and the Bagua point is on this circle.
Operation method: Parents hold the baby's four fingers except the thumb with their left hand, and push the baby's eight diagrams point with their right hand in a circle.
Function: Eat unsalable food, broaden chest and benefit diaphragm, regulate qi and eliminate phlegm.
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Drink plenty of water. When the baby coughs and has phlegm, parents should give the baby warm water. Adequate water can effectively help the baby dilute the sputum, which is conducive to the cough of sputum and the diet is as light as possible.
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Steam method is a method adopted by many parents at this time, that is, pouring boiling water into a big jar or teacup, picking up the baby, making its nose and mouth face the rising steam, and sucking, which can dilute the sputum and help to cough up phlegm on the back. At the same time, this method can also reduce congestion and edema of trachea and bronchial mucosa and reduce cough. But be careful of burns to avoid accidents.
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If the foot bath baby has cold phlegm and cough, you can soak your baby's feet, add a few slices of ginger to the foot bath water to dispel cold and relieve cough. At the same time, parents can massage the baby's soles properly to speed up blood circulation and help the cold dissipate.
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Foot massage If the baby has wind-heat cough with phlegm and sore throat, you can use foot massage to relieve the symptoms.
Massage method
1, rub the baby's feet up and down for 30 times.
2. Then massage each toe up and down for 20-40 times, focusing on both sides of the big toe root on the foot surface. This part will be very painful. Massage each foot for 5 minutes.
3. After the massage, give your baby plenty of warm water in time, or drink light salt water.
4, insist on massaging the baby twice a day, and then with diet therapy, the baby's illness will soon recover.
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Adjust the indoor environment, pay attention to ventilation, keep the air fresh, control the temperature at 25℃-26℃ and the humidity at 60%-65%. This will help the baby's respiratory tract stay moist and help the sputum to be discharged.
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Patting the back can not only loosen the sputum in children's lungs and bronchi, but also promote cardiopulmonary blood circulation, which is beneficial to the absorption of bronchial inflammation and make the disease recover as soon as possible. Therefore, if the baby coughs with phlegm, parents need to take sputum for the baby. The specific method is as follows:
1, pick up the baby, let the baby's head rest on the parents' shoulders, and then beat the baby's back with an empty fist.
2. The power of flapping should not be too great, and it should be done from top to bottom, 3-5 minutes each time, 2-3 times a day.
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Families who have the conditions to place air humidifiers can buy air humidifiers to increase the humidity of the whole room, increase the moisture in the air, let the baby dilute the sputum through breathing, and then pat the back properly, which makes it easier to discharge the sputum.
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