Should children see a Chinese doctor or a Western doctor for cough?

Is it better to see a Chinese doctor or a Western doctor when a child has a cough? I believe this is a headache for mothers. In fact, no matter it is Western medicine or Chinese medicine, as long as the condition can be cured, Western medicine has a faster treatment effect, but it cannot eliminate the root cause. Chinese medicine conditioning can not only cure the disease, but the key is to remove the root cause and improve the body's resistance. However, for the choice of cough treatment method, we can choose according to the condition.

First of all, we need to make it clear that coughing is not a disease, it is just a response of the human body to abnormalities in the body. For example, coughing may occur due to inflammation, foreign bodies, physical or chemical stimulation of the trachea, bronchial mucosa or pleura. Therefore, if you want to treat a cough, it is very important to find out the problem of the cough. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, coughs can be divided into several types: lung heat cough, lung cold cough, lung dryness cough, and chronic cough. Therefore, different causes of cough require different treatment methods. From the perspective of Western medicine, if the cough is caused by a cold, it is necessary to distinguish whether it is a viral cold or a bacterial cold. Generally speaking, a common cold will induce tonsillitis. At this time, it is necessary to take anti-inflammatory measures on the tonsils to treat the cough. It can be seen that whether it is Chinese or Western medicine, it is very important to first understand the cause of the cough for treatment.

I believe many people will have this problem, not knowing whether it is better to see a Chinese doctor or a Western doctor for cough. First of all, we need to determine the cause of the cough. For example, if you have acute pharyngitis or tonsillitis, in this case, if there is no reliable and professional Chinese medicine practitioner, the editor recommends that you see a Western doctor. Because at this time Western medicine will choose antibiotics to help you quickly reduce inflammation and relieve discomfort. There is also a situation where the cough is caused by an allergy to the pollen environment. In this case, you also need Western medicine to help you determine what you are allergic to, find out the allergens and avoid them to solve the cough problem. On the contrary, if it is a chronic cough, such as chronic pharyngitis or cough caused by lung cold, it is recommended that you choose Chinese medicine for treatment, because Chinese medicine treatment is more systematic and can solve the problem of chronic cough from the root.

Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine actually have their own professional treatment methods. What we need to be wary of is that some unprofessional doctors arbitrarily prescribe medicine to treat coughs, causing the condition to become more and more serious. Finally, I would like to remind everyone that if the cause of the cough is not found, blindly suppressing the cough is harmful to the body and can easily lead to a recurrence of the cough.