#asktheexperts Hi Doctor.. My baby is coughing whenever she is sleeping no problem while awake. She coughs maybe 4-5 times usually and gets back to sleep..Cough comes only while sleeping..I make her sleep elevated still no use. It's like she was to throw up. Please let me know how I can get ride of the cough

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Cough along with Cold and fever most of the time is a  viral illness or allergic and it needs supportive care along with proper hydration needs to be maintained. you can give steam inhalation which may be useful .
cough needs to be treated with medicine like anti allergic  expectorant bronchodilators antitussives or cough suppresents medicine which should be given only after a proper evaluation by the doctor according to the type of cough and need.
In severe cough nebulisation can be given where medicine directly gets dilivered in the respiratory tract.
Also if fever isftt there paracetamhol can be given to reduce the fever and the dose is 15 mg/ kg body weight and can be repeated after 6 hours again if required .
Home remedies like Tulsi & ginger mix in honey can be tried for soothing.

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Well when the bodies in the rest position and if there is little bit of congestion also it actually comes out during the time of lying down by the bodies at rest so you give ginger juice and honey mixture to the child 3 to 4 times in the day and specially half an hour before you put your child to sleep if there is no benefit then you can also nebulise the child half an hour before you put your child to sleep with regular saline water

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There is no fever and she is active throughout the day..I wonder if it may be reflux because she chews after coughing..any remedies for indigestion I can give her