How should tracheitis be treated in children?

Bronchitis often occurs in children in late autumn and cold winter, which makes many parents very worried. Bronchitis in children is a chronic disease that recurs frequently and is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Bronchitis can be very harmful to children and can even be life-threatening. Next, I will introduce the traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods for children's tracheitis. Parents, please take a look.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

1. Decoction

(1) Wind-cold cough type: The cough is heavy and rapid, with thin white sputum, nasal congestion and runny nose, aversion to cold without sweating, itchy throat, fever or no fever, headache, thin white tongue coating, and floating pulse. Use 6 grams each of almond, pinellia, and schizonepeta, 10 grams each of peucedanum and perilla leaves, 3 grams of ephedra, and 3 slices of ginger. Decoction in water, twice a day, 1 dose per day.

(2) Wind-heat cough type: coughing up phlegm, which is yellow, thick and sticky, thirst, sore throat, runny nose, fever, headache, sweating, slightly yellow tongue coating, and a floating and rapid pulse. Use 10 grams each of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, forsythia, loquat leaves, and 6 grams each of almonds, peucedanum, platycodon, and scutellaria. Decoction in water, take 1 dose daily, divided into 2 doses.

(3) Heat phlegm blocking the lungs: coughing with lots of phlegm that is thick and difficult to cough up, fever with red face, red eyes and lips, irritability, yellow urine with scanty urine volume, dry stool, yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. Use 3 grams of ephedra, 15-20 grams of gypsum, 6 grams each of apricot kernel, scutellaria, peucedanum, and perilla seed, 10 grams each of Fritillaria cirrhosa and Cucurbitacin seed, and 5 grams of radish. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses; 2 doses per day can be taken if necessary.

(4) Phlegm-fluid cough type: Cough, with a lot of white and sticky phlegm that is easy to cough up, chest and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, white and greasy tongue coating, and a slippery or soft pulse. Use 10 grams each of Pinellia, Tangerine Peel, Apricot Kernel, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Poria, and Psoralea Corylifolia, 6 grams of Perilla frutescens, 1.5 grams each of White Mustard Seed and Asarum, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 dates. Decoction in water, take 1 dose daily, divided into 2 doses.

The above is the treatment method for childhood bronchitis. Everyone must be aware of the seriousness of the disease. If it is not cured in time, the vicious cycle will further expand over time, the condition will worsen and it will be difficult to cure. In order for children to grow up healthily, parents should understand that they should receive timely and thorough treatment after their children become ill to avoid the disease from becoming serious.