What causes a child to cough in the middle of the night?

If a young child coughs in the middle of the night, parents must pay attention to it, especially if the symptom of coughing in young children persists for a long time. The following content provides many parents with a detailed introduction to the reasons why young children cough in the middle of the night. If you want to have a comprehensive understanding, you can have a specific understanding of the following introduction as soon as possible.

1. Cold and cough

Usually, coughs caused by colds occur during the day and at night, and can range from mild to severe. Severe cases can cause fever. Cold coughs can be divided into exogenous coughs and endogenous coughs, and exogenous coughs can be divided into wind-cold coughs and wind-heat coughs.

If the child's tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough, which means the child has a severe cold. The sputum from the cough is thinner, white and sticky, and there is nasal congestion and runny nose. At this time, the child should eat some warm, expectorant and cough-relieving foods.

If the child's tongue coating is yellow and red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the child has a lot of internal heat. The phlegm in the cough is yellow, thick, and difficult to cough up, and there is a sore throat. At this time, the child should eat some food that clears the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough.

Coughs caused by internal injuries are mostly long-term and recurring coughs. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their children some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, and replenish the lung qi.

2. Allergic cough

If you have an allergy, you usually cough at night or when you wake up in the morning, but not during the day. If this cough is not diagnosed and treated promptly, approximately 42.9% of children may develop asthma symptoms and even develop bronchial asthma. 

Allergic cough is a persistent inflammatory response of the body to antigenic or non-antigenic stimuli. Children often experience persistent or recurrent severe coughing.

Allergic cough can occur in children of any age, and the cough may recur or persist for more than one month. The onset of the disease is not limited to winter and spring, and is more common at night and in the morning. The cough worsens during exercise or crying. Most children's coughs are irritating and contain sputum. There is often a family or personal history of allergies. Most children had a history of infantile eczema and allergic rhinitis during infancy. Treatment with antibiotics and cough suppressants was ineffective.

For the treatment of allergic cough, salbutamol and ketotifen are relatively effective drugs. Generally, the cough symptoms will disappear after 2-5 days of taking the medicine. Some children may need to take the medicine continuously for half a month to a month before the cough disappears. It is best to maintain ketotifen treatment for half a year, and salbutamol treatment for half a month after the cough symptoms disappear.

The reasons why young children cough in the middle of the night are introduced in detail above. Therefore, for many parents, in order to ensure that their children recover as soon as possible, they must first have a comprehensive understanding of the reasons introduced above. Through the reasons, they can compare the disease that causes their children's cough, and then treat the symptoms. This will allow their children to stop coughing in the middle of the night as soon as possible and recover as soon as possible through treatment.