#AskTheExpert my baby girl (6 months old) is having cold and wet cough.. some times running nose and in night she is unable to breath.. its been 6 days for cold and from today she is coughing . please prescribe some medicine for her.

A. This can occurs due to weather changes and temperature variations or simple cold and rarely infection. kindly give nasal saline drops (nasoclear /nasivion s)every three hourly and since it is a salt water/saline water it does not have any side effects and can be given again and again for nasal blockage and respiratory cough. It will dissolve mucus in nose and throat. For fever and pain give paracetamol Try to prevent temperature variations around the child and you can also give indirect steam inhalation and if there is no improvement in 2 or 3 days then meet your doctor anti cold medicine should be given by the doctor after examination