How to protect infants' throats? Seven tips to protect throats

Children's throats are very fragile and need to be well protected. So, how to protect infants' throats?

How to protect infants' throats

1. Make sure your child gets enough sleep and proper nutrition. Only when they eat well, sleep well and are in good health can their throat be healthy.

2. Help children to stop talking and shouting loudly. Be careful not to cause children to cry loudly for no reason.

3. Before a child starts singing, do not let him do strenuous exercise to prevent congestion of the vocal cords.

4. Don’t sing if your child has a sore throat or a cold.

5. The songs selected for children should have catchy tunes and a wide range of notes. Generally, a song consisting of five or six notes (for children aged 3 to 4) or seven or eight notes (for children aged 5 to 6) is appropriate.

6. Before singing, it is best to have the children imitate the calls of some animals (such as cuckoos, chickens, ducklings, etc.). This is a necessary preparatory activity for singing, namely "practicing the voice" and "opening up the voice".

7. Do not allow children to imitate the singing of adults or singers, and teach them to sing with a natural voice.

How to help your baby get rid of phlegm

1. Be careful not to feed your baby foods that are easy to cause phlegm, such as various milk drinks, sugar, and meat, etc. If your baby has a lot of phlegm, try to reduce the time of the baby's bath. Because if there is phlegm, the bath will aggravate the symptoms. And if the baby is sick, it is best to use physical methods to treat it as much as possible and use less drugs. This way the baby will be healthier and less likely to get sick.

2. You can encourage your baby to expel phlegm when coughing, and you can pat your baby's back appropriately to help expel phlegm.

3. If the cold with phlegm is caused by bacterial infection, you still need to go to the hospital for treatment in time to cure the problem of phlegm in your baby.

Symptoms of pharyngitis in children

Hoarseness: Children with pharyngitis will have the symptom of hoarseness, which may even affect normal voice in severe cases.

Swelling and pain in the throat: Children usually feel pain and a foreign body sensation in the throat, which is more severe when speaking.

Excessive phlegm: Due to inflammation of the throat, the secretions in the throat increase, so children always have coughs and excessive phlegm.

Dietary remedies for pharyngitis in children

Radish for treating pharyngitis

Take 100 grams of white radish, slice it with skin, add 200 grams of water, boil it for 20 minutes, take the juice and add appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar, take it all at once, twice a day, avoid eating seafood, take it for 3 consecutive days to cure pharyngitis.

Mylian Rock Sugar Drink

15g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 15g of white lotus seeds, and an appropriate amount of crystal sugar, add an appropriate amount of water and cook together to make tea for drinking. It has the effects of nourishing yin and kidney, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst.