What to do if you have yellow phlegm and cough during breastfeeding

In today's families, the healthy growth of every baby is everyone's concern, especially the older generation, who love children very much. If the mother shows some abnormal symptoms, they will feel very nervous, fearing that some bad disease will affect the baby. Colds are a very common disease symptom in our lives, and even postpartum women cannot avoid it. So what should I do if I have cough and yellow phlegm during breastfeeding?

It is more effective to choose some dietary therapy methods according to different symptoms in the early stage. The following are the dietary therapy methods used for different coughs

1. For dry cough with phlegm and mucus that is difficult to clear, you can eat pears, radishes, honey, white fungus, lily roots and loquat leaves. The method of using loquat leaves is to brush off the hair on the leaves with a brush first, and then drink it as tea. For wet cough with phlegm, it is suitable to eat tangerine peel or grapefruit.

2. When the body is hot and the phlegm is yellow-green, this condition is generally called a hot cough. At this time, you can eat foods with cooling effects such as radish, winter melon, pear, seaweed, loquat leaves and persimmon. It is better to eat radish raw in pieces, which is better than cooked.

3. If the body is cold, sometimes afraid of cold, the phlegm is transparent, and there is a feeling of cold, it belongs to the cold condition. Suitable foods include garlic, ginger, onion, tangerine peel, ginkgo, walnut, etc. Add a little chopped ginger to water and drink it to keep warm. Ginkgo can treat cough and asthma.

Note: eating ginkgo raw can cause poisoning symptoms such as dizziness or convulsions, so it must be boiled. Adults can eat 10 ginkgo biloba a day, while children are limited to 5. The fruit of nandina domestica and the bark of cherry trees are those that need to be boiled before drinking.

The cause of the cough can be determined based on the duration of the cough and the cough contents:

1. Coughs caused by colds often last for several days;

2. Sudden cough is often a protective cough caused by inhaling foreign matter;

3. Chronic, persistent cough is mostly pathological, and the cause may be smoking, allergy, asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer, etc.

The color, nature, and viscosity of the coughed-up material can tell us the nature and severity of the disease.

1. If the sputum turns yellow-green, it indicates that the bacteria have ascended and infected the body, mostly upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, sinusitis, etc.

2. Dry cough accompanied by back and leg pain, fever, body temperature over 39°C, headache, sore throat, can be diagnosed as influenza;

3. If the cough is accompanied by dyspnea, wheezing, and chest tightness, it can be diagnosed as bronchial asthma;

4. If you cough up pink bloody sputum or yellow rusty sputum, accompanied by chest pain, headache, fever, and difficulty breathing, you may be infected with pneumonia.

After reading the above introduction on what to do if you cough and have yellow phlegm during breastfeeding, I think everyone should have understood it. Coughing and spitting yellow phlegm is actually related to a cold. The mother and her family should correctly understand and master the relevant knowledge in this regard, and find suitable methods for themselves to improve and treat it. Never blindly seek medical treatment and ask for medicine.