YOGYAKARTA - Before talking a lot about how to deal with a cold baby, if your baby is less than 3 months old, contact the doctor at the beginning of the disease. In newborns, it is very important to ensure that more serious illness does not exist, especially if your baby has a fever.

In general, you don't need to go to a doctor if your older baby has the common cold. If you have a question or if your baby's symptoms worsen or don't disappear, it may be time to see a doctor.

Your baby doctor can generally diagnose common colds with the signs and symptoms of your baby. If your doctor suspects that your baby has a bacterial infection or other conditions, he may order chest X-rays or other tests to get rid of other causes of your baby's symptoms.

Treatment

There is no cure for the common cold. Most cases of the common cold improve without treatment, usually within a week to 10 days, but coughs can last for a week or more. Antibiotics don't work against the flu virus.

Try to make your baby more comfortable with steps such as making sure he drinks enough fluid, suck up the mucus of the nose and keep the air moist.

Free-selling drugs (OTC) generally should be avoided in infants.

fever reduction drug

You can use OTC fever depletion medication if fever makes your child uncomfortable. However, these drugs don't kill the flu virus. Fever is part of your child's natural response to the virus, so it might help let your child have a mild fever.

For fever treatment or pain in children, consider giving fever and pain drugs that are sold freely to your babies or children such as acetaminofen (Tylenol, others) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others). This is a safer alternative to pain.

For children under 3 months, don't give their acetaminofen until your baby is examined by a doctor. Do not give mothers a mother fee to children under 6 months or to children who continue to vomit or become dehydrated. Use these drugs for the shortest possible time. If you give your child pain relievers, follow the dose guide carefully. Call your doctor if you have a question about the right dose for your baby.

Children and adolescents recovering from chickenpox or flu-like symptoms should not consumeriks. This is because men have been associated with Reye syndrome, a condition that is rare but has the potential to be life-threatening, in these children.

cough and runny nose

cough and runny nose medicines are not safe for infants and children. Freely sold cough and runny nose drugs do not treat the cause of colds in children and will not treat them early and can be dangerous for your baby. Cough and runny nose drugs have serious side effects, including fatal overdoses in children under 2 years of age.

Do not use free medicine, except for hot reduction drugs and pain relievers, to treat coughs and runny noses in children under 6 years old. Also consider avoiding the use of these drugs for children under 12 years old.

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