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What can I do about children's coughs, which often recur?

What can I do about children's coughs, which often recur?

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What's wrong with a child who likes to have recurring colds and coughs? What should I do?
Sick to the point of hospitalization and relapse after recovery and discharge.

A: Coughing is supposed to be a reflex action of the human respiratory tract to clean itself and protect breathing.

  • There are beneficial aspects, but repeated colds and coughs can easily lead to a number of other co-morbidities that are not good for the pediatric respiratory tract.

  • Therefore, there is a need for timelyTreatment.

  • Generally speaking, Western and Chinese medicines are fine, however, due to its recurring nature, dietary therapy and daily maintenance are recommended.


What is it about children who like to have recurring colds and coughs?

  • Repeated colds in children are recommended to go to the regular hospital to check the bone density and blood calcium. This is because calcium deficiency in children also has the potential to cause low immunity and cause recurrent respiratory infections.


  • The causes of pediatric cough are also diverse. For example, respiratory tract infections, allergies, foreign body irritation, can cause pediatric cough, if the child has a cough, pay attention not to blindly use anti-inflammatory drugs to treat, otherwise it will increase the burden on the kidneys, and even cause gastrointestinal tract and kidney toxic side effects.



What should I do if my child has recurrent colds and coughs?

1. Apply salt externally to the back.

In fact, hot compresses are a nowhicheverGreen therapy with toxic side effects.

Again, because of the comfort level, it is especially effective in treating pediatric treatment difficulties.


Specific practices:

  • Toss the salt in the pan

  • Stir-fry until lightly browned

  • Wrap up well with a cloth, until the temperature is not hot, put it on the back of the child, repeated compresses, can be relieved.


2. Dietary treatment.

In normal life, it is better to be light and drink plenty of warm water. There are also foods that can be useful in treating recurring colds and coughs in children. For exampleEating more fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C, or supplementing multivitamin preparations to ensure comprehensive nutrition is also one of the measures that can effectively strengthen the resistance of children.


For example, there are the following foods:

  • snow pear with rock candy
  • 梨肓
  • silver tree-ear soup

All three of these can be used to moisturize the lungs and quench thirst, and are also good for thePediatric colds and coughsIt has a mitigating effect.


3. Apply and soak with Chinese medicine.

As we all know, the human body is a number of acupuncture points, the use of Chinese medicine to compress the navel of the child or a number of acupuncture points, but also can alleviate the symptoms of frequent colds and coughs children, it is recommended to use those who relieve coughs and phlegm efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, the correct and reasonable to the children with traditional Chinese medicine compresses, soaking.


4. Some other notes.

  • Ensure that your child gets enough sleep while getting some exercise in moderation.

  • In addition, to live in the house, it is recommended to open the windows more, to maintain the circulation of fresh air, so that children have a process of adaptation to the environment.

  • At the same time, if the situation is serious, for example, if the pediatrician has a high fever, it is necessary to promptly carry out cooling treatment, and it is recommended that it is best to go to the hospital for treatment.


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Why do children have recurrent colds and coughs?

1. Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency can lead to recurrent upper respiratory tract infections.

2. Malnourished pediatric cellular immunity is also deficient and prone to illness, and reduced nutritional intake during illness can also exacerbate malnutrition.

3, there are allergic genetic constitution of children, prone to recurrent colds, in fact, allergic rhinitis performance and recurrent cold inflammation symptoms.

4, living environment and space with pollution or allergens exist, such as formaldehyde, pollen, dust mites and so on.

5. Frequent exposure to second-hand smoke makes you more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases.

6, the common viral cold abuse of antibiotics, resulting in flora disorders are also easy to get sick.

What about recurring colds?

1, whether rhinitis symptoms, please otolaryngology examination.

2, whether there is an immunodeficiency, you can check the immunoglobulin.

3、Check for allergens to clarify the presence of allergic factors.

4, pay attention to exclude the living environment pollution or humidity.

5. It is also important to exercise, get enough sleep, and not abuse antibiotics.

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September is the time of summer and fall, the change of season, the temperature is extremely unstable, the temperature difference between morning and evening is big, seasonal viruses, bacteria are easy to breed. And children's nasal hair and bronchial cilia are not well developed, resistance is low, so it is easy to have a cold, cough and so on.Baby cough is divided into two kinds of dry cough and wet cough, in order to stop the baby cough, we must first understand the type of baby cough, and then treat the symptoms.

1. Dry cough

A child with dry cough has an itchy, dry throat and other discomforts, and does not cough up phlegm or coughs up a small amount of phlegm. The child should drink plenty of warm boiled water, eat a light diet, and have the right humidity and temperature in the house. If your child develops a high fever or has difficulty breathing, he or she should seek medical attention.

2. Wet cough

Children with wet cough cough more sputum, the sputum can be clear or thick. The child should eat more apples and pears and drink warm drinks such as warm boiled water, radish and honey water, warm milk and so on. Meanwhile the child's wet cough symptoms can be reduced in an environment with 60-65% humidity. Parents can let the child sit in the bathroom with water vapor for 3-8 minutes, water vapor can play a role in removing phlegm and cough. If the above methods can not play a role in relieving cough, parents should take their children to the doctor in time to see a doctor under the guidance of medication.

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The child coughs for three or four months, you do not go to the hospital to check the child's condition, the heart is really not generally big. Children coughing for more than a month clinically need to be considered as a chronic cough, leading to chronic cough has many causes, 0 ~ 6 years old children with chronic cough causes cough variant asthma, respiratory tract infections and infections caused by cough, upper airway cough syndrome, prolonged bacterial bronchitis, and gastroesophageal reflux. Among these diseases, cough variant asthma is the most common cause of chronic cough in infants, toddlers and preschoolers (0-6 years).

How is cough variant asthma diagnosed? If the child has a persistent cough for more than a month, the cough is phlegmless and predominantly dry. The cough is more intense at night and early in the morning and worsens after inhaling cold air. There is no clinical evidence of infection, or prolonged anti-infective treatment is ineffective. The child's pulmonary ventilation is normal, and bronchial provocation tests suggest airway hyperresponsiveness. Patients with a family history of allergic disease are present. If the child's parents are allergic to alcohol or crabs, more attention is needed. Such a child will achieve better results with diagnostic treatment with bronchodilators.

The child can be given a choice of oral beta2 agonists (e.g., propecia, terbutaline, salbutamol, etc.) or transdermally-absorbed beta2 agonist (tolterol) patches for topical application. Inhaled glucocorticoids or oral leukotriene receptor antagonists (montelukast) are required for two months when a child is diagnosed with cough-variant asthma. The best thing to do is to go to a healthcare facility for a thorough examination to clarify the cause of the disease so that the medicine can be used, don't you think?

Autumn and winter seasons, the weather is dry, the child would have been easy to cough, coupled with air pollution is becoming more and more serious, it is very easy to recurring symptoms, my child in the age of 3 to 5 years old is so, winter bath, even wash your hair will lead to coughing, coughing is more than half a month, not a few days and relapse, that period of time every morning as soon as I got up, coughing, coughing, coughing, face is red, three days to go to the hospital, the old expert of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, four or five times. Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall of Fame of the old experts to see four or five times, acupuncture and massage also tried, Chuanbei Snow Pear also drank, herbal foot soak is also in use, forced to drink the soup and medicine for a full two months, a slight improvement in the physique, but the child refused to drink, the back of the children's hospital to do the nebulizer, with three kinds of medicine, the effect is really good, three or four days on the pressure of the. After that, I bought myself a nebulizer, a cough to do, basically within three days to stop coughing.

Spring is coming, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, and many parents feel that the high flu season is over and they finally don't have to worry about their children's health every day, however, they have overlooked one problem:Spring is the season for coughs

In the childcare exchange group, baby moms often respond: the child always cough, take the medicine is not very effective, sometimes see the child continues to cough, really worried that the child will cough out bronchitis, or even pneumonia. Through the screen can feel the deep concern. I believe that many parents are very concerned about the problem of children coughing, why the child always coughing medicine does not work? What are the ways to improve the situation? Followed by a piece of editorial to understand it.
Why is it that children always cough and medication doesn't work?
The dry climate and changing temperatures of spring, coupled with the recovery of all things lead to an increase in allergens, it is very easy to cause children to cough. There are many reasons for coughing, such as colds, allergies, pharyngitis, etc. If you don't treat the symptoms, even if you take more cough medicine, it won't have much effect. In most cases, the cough is caused by a cold, the child has been coughing to cough out the phlegm in the throat, often this case, the key to treating the cough in the phlegm rather than cough. Chemical phlegm is not necessarily to take medicine, parents do a good job of these 3 work, better than the effect of medicine.
1、Patting the child's back to dissolve phlegm
Smaller children will not spit on their own, so they can only keep coughing, trying to cough out the phlegm, but this method has little effect and is very dangerous, phlegm in the throat can not be coughed up, the more it accumulates will lead to asphyxiation. At this time, parents can pat the child's back, will stick in the airway wall of the phlegm shock down, to help the baby phlegm. When patting the back, arching the palm, from top to bottom, back and forth patting, patting strength should be properly controlled to avoid causing discomfort to the child. One thing to note is that don't pat your child's back after a meal to avoid vomiting.
2、Keep a light diet and eat less food that aggravates coughing
Older family members often say: salt produces phlegm, during the child's cold and cough, to maintain a light diet, minimize the consumption of too salty, too sweet, too greasy food, spicy food, cold drinks and seafood, etc. Try not to eat, to avoid the production of phlegm, so that the cough worsened. Be sure to drink more water, parents can give the child drink some pear water or carrot water, can also play the role of phlegm cough.
3. Create a comfortable environment for children to move around
Your child's environment is important, and when indoors, it's important to keep the air fresh with good ventilation. Spring climate is dry, indoor humidity should be controlled, too dry can also irritate the throat, resulting in coughing. Usually use wet rags to mop the floor, reduce dust, dust and other foreign matter can easily enter the child's respiratory tract, causing a violent cough. When you go out, do not go to the crowded, dense, poorly ventilated places, encounter hazy weather, go out and be sure to bring a mask.

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First of all, before treating your baby's cough we need to know what are all the causes of your baby's cough?

1. Coughs not caused by bacterial infections:In recent years, the incidence of recurrent cough due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and respiratory viral infections has increased year by year, especially in babies with predominantly spasmodic, continuous coughing, with a high likelihood of Mycoplasma infection.

2. Upper airway cough syndrome:It mainly refers to postnasal drip syndrome, usually these children have allergic rhinitis or sinusitis, mainly manifested as a decrease in coughing after sleep, coughing is obvious in the early morning or when the position changes, and there are also symptoms of allergic rhinitis or sinusitis.

3. Bronchial foreign bodies:There is a part of the bronchial foreign body performance is very bizarre, just manifested as a child's repeated spasmodic cough, especially after activity or excitement obvious, quiet coughing significantly better, this situation should pay attention to the baby there is no recent history of choking and coughing, must be excluded from the foreign body Oh.

4. Cough variant asthma:When the above 3 causes of cough are ruled out, we have to consider allergy-induced cough, characterized by an aggravation of the cough that is closely related to exposure to allergens, and a significant improvement of the cough after the use of hormonal nebulization.

So what's the treatment for the baby?

1. Improve pathogen examination to exclude mycoplasma infection or viral infection;

2. Improve chest DR examination to exclude bronchial foreign body and bronchial stenosis;

3. Improve allergen testing;

4. Targeted treatment after clarifying the cause of the disease, if it is mycoplasma infection, you can standardize the treatment according to the guidelines for the treatment of mycoplasma infection, if it is a foreign body, you need to bronchoscopy to remove the foreign body, if it is allergic rhinitis or cough variant asthma.Active treatment with antihistamines and antileukotrienes is required along with strict allergen avoidance.


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What's wrong with a child who likes to have recurring colds and coughs? What should I do? Sick to the point of hospitalization, recovering and being discharged and then relapsing.

Why do babies who are sick and clearly recovering come back soon?

1, the baby's organs are very delicate, the body function is weak, the ability to resist disease is weak. If the baby is sick and takes medicine and infusion, it is easy to hurt the baby's organs. The baby seems to recover, in fact, the drug is only a temporary suppression of the virus only. If you don't pay attention for a while, your baby will soon have repeated attacks.

2, usually let the baby more exercise. If the baby is relatively small, mothers and family members can give the baby more exercise exercise, if the baby will already crawl, you can prepare a crawling mat on the floor, more let in the mat to crawl.

3, the baby's diet should be light, greasy food is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. As the saying goes, "If you want your child to be safe, three points of hunger and cold."

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Hello, thanks for the invitation to answer. First of all, babies and young children are different from adults, their immunity is very weak, they are especially prone to respiratory infections, and if you are not careful, they can spread directly to the lower respiratory tract and develop bronchial or pneumonia, and the child will not be able to describe the symptoms by themselves, and many times the symptoms are very atypical. Therefore, do not be careless about your child's cough and other symptoms.

Then, it is always recommended to see the pediatrician not less, but at the very least to have the doctor look at the voice and listen to the lungs and airways to grasp the diagnosis and changes in the condition and intervene in a timely manner.

Finally, the child is still considered lung spleen qi deficiency, it is recommended that the child does not usually have acute infections during the period, must take Chinese medicine to tonify the spleen and lung qi, so that the child slowly immunity can come up. At the same time, must be instructed to use less clear heat and detoxification class of Chinese medicine, try to avoid the use of antibiotics, unless the last resort and then use, but does not mean that we have to completely exclude the Western medicine, the time to use or to use.

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At the time of the change of season, a lot of children are coughing, either gently dry cough once in a while, or coughing can not be stopped, or often wake up coughing at night, affecting the child's sleep.

Many parents are most afraid of their children coughing, because they are afraid that their children will cough and have a fever, which can easily lead to pneumonia.

In fact, pneumonia is not that easy to come by, and most of the more raspy coughs and drinking fevers are just common colds. Symptoms of pneumonia include rapid and labored breathing, chest pain, fever, vomiting and a hoarse, violent cough. Usually when you take your child to the hospital, the doctor will check the difference between a cold and pneumonia right away.

If the cough is affecting your child, we can try these things:

1. Chest physiotherapy

Patting the sides of your child's back at least 10 times on each side, four times a day, will help push mucus out of the airways.

2、Purify the air and keep the humidity of the room air

Open the windows of your room to ventilate the air when you wake up every day, and put a humidifier in the room to keep the air humidity at about 60%. Be sure not to smoke in the room and pollute the air in the room.

3、Choose the right cough medicine

If the cough does not affect the child during the day, use the first two methods. If the cough is more severe and interferes with the child's sleep, it is still necessary to give the child a suitable cough suppressant.

There are generally 3 types of cough medicines: suppressant, expectorant and a mixture of both. Different medicines are used for different coughs, and using the wrong medicine will not only be ineffective, but will also worsen the cough.

4. Drink more water, not drinks

Give your child plenty of plain water, several times a day, in small quantities, and no drinks, especially cold drinks from the refrigerator are absolutely forbidden, as they can aggravate your child's cough.

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