Symptoms of viral cold in baby

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The common diseases of the baby are mostly colds, and colds can be divided into bacterial colds and viral colds. Many parents can't distinguish the types of colds, so they will give the baby indiscriminate medication. For example, if the baby has an obvious viral cold, but the parents give the child antibiotics, it will not only cause the abuse of antibiotics, but also delay the baby's illness. What are the symptoms of the baby's viral cold? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of viral cold in baby

Viral cold, general runny nose symptoms than throat symptoms obvious, and accompanied by conjunctival congestion or diarrhea, than the name of measles, children's rash and so on belong to the virus infection. Bacterial infection is more obvious in pharyngeal tonsil red and pain.

The whole body is characterized by headache, aching, fatigue and weakness, loss of appetite, sometimes accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea. Some infants may have febrile convulsions (commonly known as febrile convulsions). The total number of white blood cells was normal or low.

A cold may make the baby short of water. This is due to the baby's body fever, breathing faster, cough and increased secretion in the trachea and other reasons, so more body fluid loss, so pay attention to add more liquid, the best liquid is boiled water. Drinking plenty of boiled water is very important, which can prevent dehydration, reduce the viscosity and dryness of secretions in the respiratory tract, and help the baby cough up sputum.

matters needing attention

As long as the baby's fever does not reach 38.5 degrees Celsius, you can use the physical cooling method at home, but once it exceeds, you still need to hurry to the hospital. After all, the fever is very serious at this time, which is likely to damage the baby's brain.