Treating cold baby

Baby's cold

Infants suffer from infections of the airway, throat, nose and mouth, as well as colds, frequent coughs and sneezes as a result of their infection with the virus, which makes the breathing process difficult for them, so they cannot breastfeed. It is still in the growth stage.

Cold is a common non-serious infectious disease for the winter, and we will learn more about the causes of colds in infants and ways to prevent and treat it.

Symptoms of a cold cramp in the infant.

• The infant feels tired and is less mobile.
• He suffers from pain in the pharynx.
•  It develops coughing, congestion, sneezing, runny nose and red eyes.
• The baby loses his appetite.
•  He had enlarged lymph nodes.
• His voice changed and decreased so that the mother feels hoarseness.
• High temperature.

Ways to protect the infant from cold

• The need to place the child in a warm place in the winter and warm it well.
• Avoid approaching the infant by people with a cold.
• Avoid smoking in the infant.
• Avoid using a child's towel for more than a day.
• Do not exaggerate the spray of perfumed clothes on the infant's clothes, which could cause an allergy and then a cold.
• Ventilate the room the child is in on a daily basis.

Treating colds

•  Take care to breastfeed a child (breastfeeding) at least three times a day, because breast milk enhances the child's resistance and also contains anti-disease.
• Use of a rinse (saline solution).
• Position the infant vertically so that he does not feel suffocated due to the accumulation of mucus.
• Paint the baby's nose with a little petroleum jelly to moisturize it.
•  Putting the baby in warm water reduces the temperature in his body, as it reduces muscle pain, and avoids using cold water.
• Moisturizing his room with steam.
• Avoid giving him cough medication without consulting his doctor.
• Excessive fluid intake, such as water and natural juices, that help increase moisture in the body.
•  Allow the infant to sleep long enough.
•  Give the child a fever if he is more than three months old and read the leaflet.

Time to consult a doctor

• If the mother does not feel the improvement of her baby within 3 days and his temperature continues to rise, in order to avoid suffering from sinus infections.
•   If his temperature becomes normal and the mother does not feel the improvement of her child, to avoid suffering from allergic nasal infections.
•   If the child has difficulty breathing and coughing significantly accompanied by sputum and expulsion.
• If its temperature reaches above thirty-nine degrees Celsius.
• When the quantities of breastfeeding decreased.
• When enlarged lymph nodes appear in the neck area.
•  When there is pain in the abdomen, chest or ears.