My daughter is 13 months old , she has cold n wet cough since a week, baby is active n having her Solid foods less than before. I gave her steam inhalation for every 3 hours and cheston syrup , saline drops before every feed but there is wheezing sound heard from her chest and back and has phelum

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Cough along with Cold most of the time is a  viral illness and it needs supportive care along with proper hydration. you can give steam inhalation which is very useful .
cough needs to be treated with anti allergic and expectorant bronchodilators or antitussives medicine which should be given only after a proper evaluatiovn by the doctor according to the type of cough.
if fever is there paracetamol can be given to reduce the fevfer and the dose can be repeated after 6 hours again if required .

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See Along with indirect steam in halation you can also nebulise your child twice a day and so much of steam should not be giving you can give indirect steam to your child for 10 minutes twice a day not more than that