How to treat and prevent infection at the burn site after being scalded by hot soy milk, and what medicine should a child take?

The child has been coughing for about a month, starting with occasional coughs, and now it’s non-stop coughing. They don’t cough when sleeping but haven’t visited a hospital yet.

If a child has thick tongue coating, red and purple edges of the tongue, and excessive eye boogers, it may be due to ‘being overheated.’ Pay attention to diet, drink plenty of water, and consider taking herbal medicine for clearing heat, reducing fire, and digesting food if necessary.

If a child experiences an increase in bowel movements and diarrhea with watery stools, it may be a sign of enteritis caused by a viral infection. It is recommended to take anti-diarrheal medication. Refer to: Children’s Diarrhea Calm Granules, Smecta Powder, etc., and take these medications with an interval of one hour between doses.

How to Deal with a Baby’s Cold Symptoms?

How to handle a child’s fever and lack of energy?

After being bitten by a mosquito and developing a fever, it is advisable to go to the hospital for a check-up and receive treatment according to your symptoms. You can adopt physical methods of cooling down, such as using a damp towel to cool the forehead. If medication is required, consider taking traditional Chinese medicine An Gong Niuhuang Wan for opsonize. Additionally, maintaining easy-to-digest and absorbable diet and good living habits is beneficial for body recovery.

Dry stools are often caused by insufficient body fluids, which can be categorized into cold and heat conditions. If accompanied by dry mouth, excessive drinking without relief, yellow urine, red tongue with little coating, or yellow tongue coating, it indicates the presence of pathogenic heat within the body, leading to fluid depletion. If there is dry mouth and tongue, not much drinking or preference for hot drinks, non-yellow urine, fatigue, aversion to cold, white or thin white tongue coating, it may be due to Qi deficiency, affecting the distribution of fluids.

Children’s coughs are often more severe than adults’, with symptoms typically including persistent coughing. When parents notice their child coughing, they often seek immediate medical assistance, resorting to medication or intravenous drips. However, these treatment methods may lead to a decrease in appetite, affecting nutrition intake and immunity. This makes children more susceptible to catching colds and coughs, forming a vicious cycle. Over time, children may experience underweight conditions and yellowish complexions.

When a baby has a fever, it is recommended to give appropriate fever-reducing medication and take physical cooling measures. If the condition does not improve, seek medical attention promptly.