What to do if your child keeps having a dry cough

If the child keeps having a dry cough and we don’t know what to do when the cough is severe, we don’t know what to do. The child will definitely not be able to sleep well when the cough is uncomfortable. In the long run, it may even cause serious damage to the child’s lungs. The child must drink more water during the period of severe dry cough, so as to moisten the child’s lungs and have the effect of relieving cough. What should I do if my child keeps having a dry cough?

Most of the children with cough seen in clinical practice suffer from upper respiratory tract infections, such as pharyngitis and tonsillitis. Another part is variant cough, also known as allergic cough, etc. Children or family members with a history of allergies should pay special attention. Only a few are problems such as pneumonia and tracheitis. If a child has a cough for more than a week, parents should take him or her to see a doctor promptly instead of just buying cough medicine for the child. If there are 5 upper respiratory tract infections or 2 lower respiratory tract infections in a year, it is considered a recurrent attack and you need to have a blood test to check immunoglobulins, T cell subsets, trace elements, vitamin A, etc. to see if there is a problem with the immune system. Since most children with coughs have viral infections, antibiotic treatment is often ineffective, which is why many children do not get better even after taking medicine or getting injections. It is best not to use antibiotics to treat viral infections. It is more appropriate to use Chinese herbal medicines that clear away heat and detoxify and relieve lung and cough, such as isatis indigotica, isatis root, andrographis paniculata, honeysuckle, etc.

No chest X-ray if there is no wheezing or suffocation

Children with long-term coughs may not need to undergo many tests when they go to the hospital. An experienced doctor will determine the cause of the disease based on symptoms such as lung sounds and tonsil condition after consultation. For example, if a child has a fever and his tonsils are infected, festering, and black on the surface, it is often a bacterial infection and should be treated with antibiotics. If the tonsils are red and have cellular exudate, it is usually a viral infection. If there is no improvement after one week of antiviral treatment, consider the possibility of mycoplasma infection and check C-reactive protein and blood routine. Only one blood draw is required and there is no need to fast. Childhood disease prevention: If the child is just coughing and does not have symptoms of pneumonia such as wheezing, breath holding, or rapid breathing, a chest X-ray is generally not necessary. The radiation from X-rays has a greater impact on children and should be avoided if possible. In addition, every drug has side effects, so if the bacterial infection is not serious, try not to give it intravenously. The principle of using antibiotics is that if they can be taken orally, do not inject them intramuscularly, and if they can be injected intramuscularly, do not inject them intravenously.

If your child has a dry cough and keeps coughing, you can try this method to treat your child, but you must rule out the possibility that the child has lung heat. If the child has lung heat, when treating the child's cold and cough, you must eliminate the lung heat in time and let the child's lungs cool down. This way the child's lungs can be well cared for, which will improve the treatment effect of the cough.