Children's upper respiratory tract infection cough

If you go to a children's hospital in winter and spring, you can always hear many children coughing. Most of these children are patients with upper respiratory tract infection and cough. Respiratory tract infection is a common disease with a high incidence rate. If you don't pay attention, babies will develop such symptoms, which leads to a long course of disease and difficulty in cure after upper respiratory tract infection. So, what should we do if children have upper respiratory tract infection and cough, and how can we treat it effectively? Let’s find out together.

There are three types of pathogens that are prone to upper respiratory tract infections, one is bacterial, one is viral, and the third is mycoplasma infection. The treatment plans for the three are different, and the drugs used are naturally different. When a child becomes ill, I think every parent will know to go to the hospital for tests. During the tests, some doctors only focus on the contents of blood routine tests and ignore the detection of mycoplasma, resulting in the child taking medicine for several consecutive days without any effect. This is also a common problem in many hospitals. In fact, doctors are not omnipotent. They are also excluding one by one. The phenomenon of not being able to use the right medicine for the symptoms accurately still exists. The result is that the child tries one treatment plan after another, which is also the reason for the long course of the child's illness. If the blood routine and mycoplasma can be tested together at the beginning, then it can be ruled out whether it is caused by mycoplasma. If it is mycoplasma, it is useless to take cephalosporin and penicillin anti-inflammatory drugs blindly. Some parents feel sorry for their children to have blood drawn, and give them antibiotics when they are sick. In fact, antibiotics for children's cough may not be symptomatic. Even if the cough is caused by upper respiratory tract infection, it may not be caused by this aspect in the later stage. Therefore, when treating the problem of baby cough, you should observe at any time and change the strategy in time.

Children who have upper respiratory tract infection and cough are prone to recurrence of the disease. Mothers should pay attention to the following precautions and take good care of their children's health.

1. Pay attention to bed rest and do appropriate activities after the symptoms are relieved.

2. At night, children's body temperature is prone to rise suddenly, so it is necessary to strengthen temperature monitoring to prevent high temperature convulsions.

3. The diet should be light and easily digestible food, such as rice porridge, noodles, etc.

4. You should increase outdoor activities appropriately to improve your body's immunity.

5. Parents should pay attention to weather changes, help their babies add or take off clothes in time, and try not to go out in dusty weather.

6. The room should maintain appropriate humidity and temperature and be ventilated frequently.

7. When colds are prevalent, try to avoid taking infants and young children to public places. Infants and young children should be prevented from playing with children with colds to prevent cross infection.

After reading the above reasons and precautions for children's upper respiratory tract infection cough, parents should treat it rationally. Coughing is a protective physiological phenomenon of the baby. For coughing, it is necessary to identify the cause and then treat it symptomatically. Never assume that a cough is a cold or pneumonia and blindly treat it. If you experience any discomfort, please seek medical attention as soon as possible and follow the doctor's instructions.