Anybody who catches cold always feels to get relief from this contagious sickness. A person gets easily irritated by cold and feels to get rid from cold infection. And if adult cannot share their experience of such incidents than just imagine how child must be suffering from if he/she catches cold.
Mainly viruses are the main cause of it. When the infected people sneeze or cough nearby healthy surroundings then these viruses make their way to get into nose or throat and start their work.
Symptoms-
You need to face many of health problems if infected by cold. Symptoms can be seen easily if your baby is having cold. Firstly, your baby will be sneezing and have a gooey nose. It becomes really much difficult to swallow anything whether it is a liquid like juice and even food as baby’s throat is aching. Problems may arise in respiratory tract.
Of course, because of sore throat your baby won’t feel to eat much because of irritation in throat. Chances are there that your baby may develop cough and even a slight fever having a body temperature like 101-102 degree Fahrenheit.
When steps to be taken-
Immediately consult a pediatrician if you find any cold symptoms in 3months old baby or even less than 3months. If proper steps not taken at time, then it could lead your baby to a serious ailment. Just rush to a doctor if your child is more than 3months old and you see him/her is breathing speedily and with each breath his nostrils expands.
Any person can make through baby’s body language. Your child must have developed cough and lasting for more than a week. Body pain or pains in joints is a common problem that each individual faces. Even your ears start aching. You may notice fever or body temperature like 102-103 degree Fahrenheit. Baby may get frustrated or feels giddy while suffering from bad cold. His nails or lips are becoming blue. His mucus is thick, gooey or may be green or blue in color
Steps towards Your Baby-
Doctors and various consultants tell that common cold has no perfect medicine that can solve your problem. But, surely there are easy steps that can fight against this common cold symptoms or increase your resistance power against cold infection.
Make your baby rest for long time and look whether he is taking proper dosage of medicine. Give your baby acetaminophen for fever if it is not more than 6months or else you may give ibuprofen if your child is more than that. If your child is under 3years and has developed cough then do not offer cough medicines or cough syrup which checks control unless it’s prescribed by a pediatrician. Strictly, it is advisable to keep a hold on using allopathic medicines if your child’s health aggravate for 1-2days.
Use of any rubber material thin stick will help to draw out the mucus from his nostrils, if your baby’s nose has jammed. Before doing this process, just check whether the baby’s mucus is thick or runny. If it’s too thick use of saline nose drops can soften the mucus or a humidifier used in a baby’s room can also gooey the mucus to clean the nasal secretions.
Conclusion -
Just keep the baby away from infected peoples as their disease resistance power is low to fight against such infection like cold. But still, if your child catches cold then try out every possible homely way and then follow allopathic medicine to overcome this cold problem. Take care, by making him/her relax or comfortable will soon cure your child from cold symptoms bringing him back to healthy body. Hence, now it’s completely on you how to nourish your child in different situations.