What should I do if my baby has a cold and cough? The 8 most common pitfalls! It’s best to memorize this misunderstanding guide

Colds are not serious illnesses and are even common, but they are enough to make a parent miserable. In order to shorten the course of the disease and relieve the pain of the baby, many parents do take some seemingly effective measures. For example: \”If you catch a cold, you will get better quickly if you cover yourself with sweat.\” \”Let the baby drink some honey water to stop coughing.\” \”Compound cold medicine is more comprehensive in treating colds.\” \”This medicine can\’t cure it? It\’s okay! Let\’s take this medicine!\”… If you feel that the above measures are familiar, familiar, or have even been tried before. Then you have stepped into the pit unknowingly! Do not believe? Then Mr. Xiaokang will explain it in detail and help moms and dads clear mines! What should I do if my baby has a cold and runny nose when the weather turns cold? First of all, we need to distinguish the 8 misunderstandings that cause problems for children. Misunderstanding 1: Over-treatment. When the baby is sick, it is understandable that parents are anxious, but you should not rush to the doctor when you are sick. Frequently taking your baby to the hospital for medical treatment and medicine will only make the baby sick. You are even more dizzy from the work, and you don’t know how to take it when faced with a lot of medicine. In fact, the cold is a self-healing disease. It will initially cause sneezing, nasal congestion, and runny nose, followed by fever, sore throat, and cough. But most symptoms will gradually lessen or even heal within a week or so. Therefore, there is no need for special treatment for colds. Whether you take medicine or not, the course of a cold will not change. Because cold medicine does not promote recovery, it only relieves symptoms. Taking your baby to see a doctor frequently will only lead to repeated medication and over-treatment, which is not beneficial but harmful to the baby. For parents, it will only make them feel even more… ugh~ so tired! Misunderstanding 2: Thinking that compound cold medicines are a more comprehensive treatment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearly states that children under 4 years old are not recommended to take compound cold medicines. Why is it so stipulated? ❶ This is because compound cold medicines lack dosage standards for children. Most of them are calculated based on adult dosages, and the safety factor is very low. ❷Compound medicines are actually a \”hodgepodge\”. A small pill contains a variety of effective ingredients for treating cold symptoms. This is actually not good because it will increase the risk of repeated medication and overdose of the baby. Therefore, before giving medicine to your baby, it is better to consult a doctor and ask the doctor to prescribe a single-ingredient medicine according to the baby\’s symptoms (that is, a medicine with only one active ingredient in the active ingredients item in the drug package insert). Misunderstanding 3: Blindly stopping coughing If the cough is caused by a common cold, this \”cough\” actually has a protective effect on the body because it can help the phlegm in the respiratory tract be discharged faster. Blindly giving cough medicine to your baby will cause phlegm to remain in the body and induce other respiratory infections. The correct way to relieve a cough is: pay attention to ventilation indoors, turn on a humidifier, and let the baby drink an appropriate amount of water. If your baby loses appetite and cannot sleep at night due to cough, it is recommended to seek medical treatment as soon as possible. Misunderstanding 4: Use honey to relieve coughs and reduce phlegm. Honey water is not that magical in relieving coughs. If you find it useful, you can drink some. but! Babies under 1 year old should not eat honey because of the risk of botulism. Another thing parents should remember is that the more phlegm-prone your child is, the less likely it is to eat foods that are too sweet, as they can easily produce phlegm and are sticky and difficult to cough up. If you have a cough with phlegm caused by a cold, you can take it orally to relieve the pain.Cough and Phlegm Syrup. For example: Yitanjing or children\’s cough syrup (take under the guidance of a doctor). If your baby has a cough for more than five days, he needs to see a doctor in time. Go to the hospital and have the doctor listen to the condition of his lungs to rule out lower respiratory tract infection. Misunderstanding 5: Covering the sweat to treat colds. Don’t think that covering a cold can cure a cold. This is of no use. Instead, it will cause the baby to sweat excessively, leading to rapid loss of a large amount of water containing electrolytes, causing dehydration. Severe dehydration can also cause damage to the brain and other organs, and even be life-threatening! Misunderstanding 6: Blind use of antipyretics. Fever caused by the common cold is a manifestation of the baby\’s body fighting against pathogenic bacteria, which can eliminate the virus faster. Therefore, parents should not blindly use antipyretics for their babies, let alone use alcohol to wipe or cover them. Sweat to cool down. If the baby\’s temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, the baby is in a poor mental state, and his eating, drinking and playing are affected, he can take acetaminophen (taken for more than 3 months) or ibuprofen (taken for more than 6 months) under the guidance of a doctor to reduce fever. In addition, the fever of newborns and babies with a history of febrile convulsions should be treated more aggressively. Misunderstanding 7: Use cold medicine to prevent colds. If you think that cold medicine can prevent colds, you are completely wrong! Because there is no specific medicine for the common cold. As mentioned above, cold medicine only relieves symptoms and cannot shorten the course of the disease or prevent the cold. If parents want to prevent their babies from catching colds, they should wash their children\’s hands more often to avoid the spread of the virus. As for the flu, there are preventive measures, and that is to get the flu vaccine. Misunderstanding 8: Misuse of Antibiotics Some parents use antibiotics when their babies catch a cold. In fact, antibiotics target bacterial infections, and most colds are often viral infections. Blindly taking antibiotics not only fails to cure the disease, but also causes bacteria to develop drug resistance. When bacterial infection actually occurs, the drugs may lose their efficacy. There are so many misunderstandings about colds, mothers and fathers, how many pitfalls have you stepped on? As for nasal congestion in infants and young children, Doudehui recommends that parents apply warm towels to their babies\’ noses, clean nasal secretions in time, use a humidifier indoors to maintain a certain humidity, avoid catching cold when sleeping at night, and sleep more sideways to relieve the problem. If there is nasal scab, you can put 1 to 2 drops of light salt water in the nasal cavity, rub your nose to soften the scab, and then roll it out or sneeze to expel it. You can also use a cotton swab to roll out the secretions, or use a few strands of cotton to stimulate the nostrils. , causing sneezing to spray out secretions to keep the baby\’s nasal cavity open.