Before the age of three, babies cannot proficiently cough up phlegm and wipe their noses, but when building their own immune system, they inevitably experience coughing and wheezing. What should be done if a one year old baby has phlegm in their throat and breathing sounds?
1. We can make the baby crawl on our legs, maintain a position where the baby's breathing is unobstructed, close the hands and five fingers together to form a circular arc shape, gently pat the baby's back, so that the baby can carve out thick phlegm and directly expel it from the mouth due to gravity. Making the baby lie down and tilt at a certain angle is to prevent the baby from coughing up phlegm and then swallowing it back.
2. Drink plenty of water to replenish fluids and eliminate toxins. In addition to these uses, drinking plenty of water can also dilute the thick phlegm in the throat for children. When coughing is not very severe, if the baby cannot cough up phlegm and does not cooperate with sputum tapping, we can guide the baby to drink warm water to dilute the thick phlegm, and let it enter the esophagus and be excreted through the digestive system.
3. If the phlegm in the baby's throat is very thick and the baby does not cooperate with expectoration or drinking water, then we can use an atomizer. Nowadays, hospitals have nebulized potions that have the effect of resolving phlegm. Simply place these potions in an atomizer, and they will turn into a gaseous state, allowing babies to inhale and resolve phlegm.
If there is phlegm in the child's throat that can affect breathing, parents must seek medical attention promptly and remove the phlegm from the throat to avoid causing poor breathing or even oxygen deficiency in the baby. The doctor will suction phlegm for the baby.
