Dr Sameer awadhiyaGuardian of 2 children1 Year agoA. Cold most of the time is a viral illness where there could be running nose sneezing along with cough and it needs supportive care along with proper hydration . steam inhalation will also be useful in this .
cough needs to be treated with anti allergic and expectorant bronchodilators or antitussives medicine which should be used oncce a proper evaluation by the doctor is done and according to the type of cough its prescribed.
if any fever is there paracetamol can be given to reduce the tempetrature and the dose can be repeated again after 6 hours if required .
RashmiMom of a 10 yr 11 m old girl1 Year agoA. Air-conditioner for the child can be used from the age of one day itself so if you want to use it you can keep temperature somewhere around 24° to 25° that is ideally going to be good for the child you can use fan alongside if you want
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