Cough is a common problem that every individual needs to suffer from. Like to make your child feel relax from cough irritation you will do every homely feasible things because you will avoid all medicines & cough syrup, since there are usually side effects and harmful chemicals that may cause illness to your child. Try to avoid as much as you can for your child’s sake and always prefer some home remedies first than directly using allopathic medicine prescribed by doctor. Modern studies, tells that intake of cough syrup and the sugar ingredient that it contains may falls you sick.

Treating your baby in a natural or homely way will serve the best to calm your child’s cough. If your baby feels somewhat suffocated or giddy it is advisable to take him/her in the bathroom for warm bath. This steam therapy will lighten your child’s heart or lungs, would feel free from congestion problem. If this therapy does not work, just add some few drops of eucalyptus into the bath water. The vapors will help your baby to breathe at ease and also soothe the sore throat, which makes him/her feel relaxed & comfortable from these essential oils.

If the reason behind your baby’s cough is croup, it would be best suited to wrap her up warmly and go out along with her for a short night walk. It may sometimes tranquil your swelling or soreness because of cold air.

Offering herbal tea to your child will also work. Generally use of sage or thyme is to make tea is more advisable. The hot herbal tea will help to clear mucus out of your baby’s lungs. It would be fine to take an appointment of pediatrician to know at what age your baby can have herbal teas. This beneficiary step will really help to cure your baby’s cough to some extent.

Another option would be offering of licorice tea to treat in a natural way because of the essentials required in making of licorice tea and the antibacterial properties that fights the bacteria that are causing the cough. Just offer a warm cup of licorice tea to make your baby sleep soundly. This natural treatment will soothe the sore throat and cools the respiratory tract.

A very traditional way to make run away your baby’s cough is an herbal rub. It needs 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil by adding 2 drops of essential oil to the olive oil. Oils which are generally used in this medication are eucalyptus, sage, peppermint and rosemary oil. This medicine will surely put forward the successful result. Eucalyptus oil helps to smoothen coughing and breathe properly, while the rosemary oil will calm your child and enables to sleep well. Apply the mixture of olive oil & other essential oils on your baby’s chest and back. But if the problem is just because of the baby is small like 10months then a better option will be to wrap her in a spongy blanket or else keeping her back and chest covered as much as possible with a warm blanket. This way of treating your child will allow the herbal oil to vaporize as the body heat of the baby is increased. Thus, makes your child feel better and can inhale or exhale easily.

A new technique is humidifier. By using the same essential oils you can control your baby’s cough to a great extent and make him feel comfortable, the calmness achieved by oils makes the baby sleep soundly. At last treat your child in your mom’s way, people have found out that breast milk will soothe the aching throat. It’s a natural way to heal your baby’s cough than rushing to doctors and unnecessarily providing medicines, tablets or cough syrup having side effects. If you’re nursing and baby develops a cough then it is advisable don’t stop breastfeeding, if case is worse then increase baby’s feeding. Wisely it is said that breast milk is the best and safest way to treat your child’s sickness than seeking the other way out.