What should I pay attention to when coughing causes abdominal pain

Normal coughing is a physiological characteristic and a reflex action. It may occasionally cause sputum. If abdominal pain occurs during coughing, you need to find the correct cause and take care of it. You should strengthen your physical fitness and try to prevent colds. You can also avoid overly strong coughing, which frequently affects the abdomen and causes convulsive pain in the abdomen. This is also caused by severe coughing.

1. Enhance physical fitness

Appropriate outdoor activities and physical exercise can increase the body's resistance to climate change. Get enough sleep. When sleeping, you can raise your head slightly and lie on your side to keep your airway open.

2. To prevent cough, you must first prevent cold

Improve the ability to resist "evil" and avoid external infection to prevent worsening of the condition. Colds should be treated promptly and thoroughly.

3. Adjust your life

Eat properly, get enough sleep, and live in a quiet environment with fresh air. Increase the humidity of the air. The room temperature should be preferably 20℃ and the indoor humidity should be maintained at 60%-65%. It is best to hang a hygrometer in the room for easy observation. It’s dry in winter and spring, so you can use a humidifier or hang wet clothes and towels indoors. When you have a severe cough and phlegm in your throat, you can inhale steam or turn on the hot water in the bathroom to allow warm and humid steam to enter your airways.

4. Rapid cough relief

Applying a hot water bottle to your back can relieve cough symptoms. Fill a hot water bottle with hot water at about 40℃, wrap it with a thin towel, and then apply it to the back near the lungs. This can speed up the expulsion of cold and stop coughing quickly. Drinking more warm drinks can make sticky phlegm thinner and easier to cough up. It is best to drink warm water or warm milk, or you can drink fresh fruit juice mixed with warm water. Choose less pungent juices such as apple juice or pear juice, and avoid drinking citrus juices such as orange juice and grapefruit juice. Use a mixture of fresh ginger or garlic slices, snail mucus and egg white, and apply it on the sternum from top to bottom, twice a day for a few minutes each time.

5. Enhance nutrition, relieve cough and reduce phlegm

As the saying goes: "Three parts treatment, seven parts care." For the treatment of cough, we should strengthen diet adjustment and pay attention to nourishing the lungs with food. You can eat some foods that nourish yin and promote the production of body fluids, such as lily, honey, pears, lotus seeds, white fungus, grapes, and various fresh vegetables and other soft foods, and eat less spicy and hot foods. Tremella rice porridge, lotus root rice porridge, yam rice porridge, jujube and tremella soup are available for your choice with appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar added.