Patient's question:
Nursing 1–3 times, with dry cough before each feeding, yellow-green, paste-like stool; otherwise normal. At 15 days old, took phenobarbital for jaundice treatment for one week, with no improvement. After stopping phenobarbital, began taking traditional Chinese medicine (ingredients: Poria, Bupleurum, fried Bupleurum fruit, licorice, Costus) for 2 days (2 times) and experienced dry cough again; symptoms returned soon after.Previous treatment and outcomes: After stopping the two jaundice treatments, switched to taking Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium longum granules (once daily) and applied Dinggui'er abdominal patch to the navel, but no improvement was seen.
Type of assistance needed: How to alleviate the above symptoms, and what might be the underlying causes of these symptoms?
Doctor's answer:
If the baby bends their knees to their chest, looks very upset, and seems to be in the agony of hiccups, it may have swallowed a lot of air while feeding. Pay close attention to the baby's feeding posture: always keep their head higher than their abdomen. Crying can cause the baby to swallow too much air, so changing the diaper before they become too uncomfortable can prevent falling into this vicious cycle.