1. Under what circumstances is pat-spitting technique recommended?
Coughing due to a flu or cold is always accompanied with a spitting noise, still, young kids until reaching the age of 5 or 6 are unable to cough the spit out all by themselves, so patients’ aid by a pat on the back is required to help spitting out the sputum resident in the lung.

2. Why the effect for the pat-spitting game?
Sputum resides deep in the lung, and spissated such that it is not so easy to spit out all at once for the young ones, by the working of pat-spitting method whereby the sputum clung to the wall of windpipe is shocked, loosened, and that assisted by postural inducement, would come out of the moth with a cough, your baby is then brought one step closer to total recovery.

3. What is the scientific retionale of the pat-spitting method?
By the principle of gravitation that the upper body is lighter than the lower body sputum present in the trachea, bronchi or in the lung is educed.

4. How should the pat be applied to serve better results?

1. Posturally:
   Hold the kid on parent’s knee, face down, the upper body lowered, the lower body held higher, with one hand clasping the child so that it will not fall or slip out of hand.
2. Patting:
   Set the other free hand into a cup-form with which to pat both sides of the back of the child up to the shoulder, the pat should not be too light, or no effect would ensue, both the adult and the child should not put on too much clothing lest the effect would be discounted, when the pat is through encourage the child to cough it out and drink water.

5. When to do the pat?

1. Apply the pat-spitting technique 30 minutes after intake down with tepid water of sputum-resolving drugs, just prior to going to bed, after getup in the morning, and whenever the kid coughs continually due to presence of sputum in the bronchial system, preferably right after oral intake of drugs.
2. Each round of the pat should last approx. 5 minutes.
3. It is not recommended to go for pat-spitting within 2 hours after a meal or a breastfeeding, lest vomiting should occur in suit.