What should I do if my child has chronic cough?

Parents often encounter some problems. For example, children often cough, and even though they take medicine, it is difficult to stop the child from coughing. It not only affects the parents' rest, but also causes the children's physical unhealth. Although I have used many medicines, using too much of them is unhealthy. So why do children cough? What should parents do when their children cough? How should they choose to treat a cough?

Why do children cough: Children's coughing is a symptom, a protective reflex action. Coughing is used to clear out the "garbage" in the respiratory tract. Coughing is often accompanied by sputum, and sputum is the "garbage".

So, coughing is a good thing, and there is no need for cough suppressant treatment. No, when there is no "garbage" in the respiratory tract, but only congestion and edema, or due to long-term coughing stimulation, the cough center is in a highly excited state for a long time, then the cough is not a reflex action with a protective effect, and cough suppressants should be actively used. Even if it is protective, if the cough is severe and affects sleep and eating, it should be treated. Cough suppressant treatment also includes expectoration, reducing edema of the respiratory mucosa, and restoring the function of tracheal cilia. Therefore, cough treatment is not simply taking cough medicine. First of all, we need to analyze the primary factors of cough. Only by treating the cause of the disease can good results be achieved.

When treating cough, do not take antibiotics for a long time. Find out the cause and, on the basis of treating the primary disease, choose appropriate cough suppressants and expectorants and pay attention to care.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by deficiency of lung qi, and the treatment advocates "treating the symptoms in an emergency and strengthening the root cause in a slow manner."

Prescription for symptomatic treatment: 5 grams each of ephedra, tangerine peel, licorice, and perilla seed, 6 grams each of apricot kernel, mulberry white, poria, coltsfoot flower, and aster, and 4 grams of Belamcanda chinensis. Usage: Decoction in clear water, 2 doses a day, until the condition is relieved.

A child's cough is not actually that scary, but it is also harmful to the body. Now that we have figured out why children cough, we should prescribe the right medicine. If the baby is weak and sickly, we should pay attention to a reasonable diet and correct picky eating and bad eating habits. Of course, they also need to exercise properly, gradually strengthen their physical fitness, and seek timely treatment if they are sick, so that children can grow up healthily!