A baby over one month old has phlegm in his throat?

If a baby over one month old has phlegm in his throat, parents should pay attention to it. It is likely caused by bronchitis or pneumonia. Generally, respiratory tract infections can easily cause poor digestion and vomiting. Moreover, the baby is too young to spit up. It is best to take the baby to the hospital for examination and, under the doctor's guidance, give the baby some expectorant to help the baby get rid of the phlegm.

A baby over one month old has phlegm in his throat?

1. Pay attention to the air circulation in the baby's room to ensure fresh air. When the weather is cool, open the windows frequently for ventilation. The indoor temperature should be controlled at around 20 degrees and the relative humidity should be controlled at 60%.

2. When the baby wakes up in the morning, a lot of phlegm will have accumulated in the throat overnight. Sometimes the baby will cry when he wakes up. Parents can let the child cry or tease the baby to cry. When the baby cries hard, it will promote the discharge of phlegm in the trachea.

3. When the baby has phlegm in the throat, give the baby more boiled water with a temperature of more than 20 degrees during the day. This can help dilute the sticky phlegm in the baby's throat and help the baby cough out the phlegm in the trachea.

4. There is a way to help the baby to expectorate by patting the back. It is to bend the fingers together to make the palm hollow, and then let the baby lie on his side or the parent can hold the baby, and use the hollow palm to pat the baby's back from top to bottom and from outside to inside. When patting, keep the strength and feel a slight vibration. Repeat this patting for three minutes and keep patting three times a day, which can help the baby expectorate.

What to do if your baby coughs and has phlegm

Method 1: Atomization

If your baby has a cough with phlegm but no other obvious symptoms, you can use nebulization to treat it. Nebulization is a method of allowing children to inhale saline solution into their respiratory tract to dilute sputum, which helps to expel sputum from the throat as soon as possible.

Method 2: Steam method

Let your child stay in a steam-filled bathroom for about 5-10 minutes. The steam inhaled into the child's respiratory tract can "flush" the respiratory tract, thereby clearing out germs or allergens.

Method 3: Medication

Take your baby to the hospital for examination, and give your baby some cough suppressants according to the doctor's instructions, such as cough syrup, which will help your baby reduce phlegm and relieve cough.

Method 4: Patting the back

Let the child lie on the adult's thighs with the back facing up and in a bow shape. The adult uses the hollow palms to pat the child's back in a "bottom-to-top" and "outside-to-in" manner. Pay attention to the appropriate strength and control the time. Each time should not exceed 5 minutes and no more than 3 times a day.

What causes babies to cough and have phlegm in their throats?

Coughing is caused by lung disease, or other organs are diseased or infected by bacteria that affect the lungs. Generally, there are two main reasons for babies' coughing: external infection and internal injury.

Exogenous cough mainly refers to the body being invaded by wind, cold, dryness, heat, etc. In simple terms, the baby is too cold or too hot, etc. The most common complication of exogenous cough is cold, which comes violently and goes away quickly.

Internal injury cough refers to the weakness of the baby's skin, spleen, lungs, kidneys and other organs, which leads to coughing; internal injury cough does not seem to be very urgent, but it lasts for a long time and is prone to recurrence.

Therefore, when you find that your baby is coughing severely, you should send your baby to the hospital for examination in time to find out the real "culprit" of the cough and reduce the pain of daily coughing for your baby.