What to do if your child coughs at night

Many parents will feel worried when their babies have symptoms of coughing. This worry is not only because the babies cannot get a good rest at night. To a large extent, once the cough is severe, it can easily lead to pneumonia, which can easily induce the onset of other diseases and bring greater pain to the baby's body. So what are the main reasons for children's cough at night? What can we do to relieve babies' coughs?

Age of coughing If a newborn baby has a cough, you should be careful about diseases such as aspiration pneumonia and congenital lung developmental abnormalities. Cough in older children is generally more common in respiratory tract infections. If a preschool baby coughs, airway infection and foreign bodies in the airway should be taken into consideration.

Coughing time: If your baby coughs in the morning, it is most likely a chronic disease, such as chronic inflammation of the upper respiratory tract and chronic bronchitis. If your baby coughs at night, it may be caused by diseases such as whooping cough and acute spasmodic laryngitis.

Baby coughing action analysis

A baby's cough can be broken down into four actions: short and deep inhalation; glottis closing; contraction of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles, increased intrapulmonary pressure; opening of the glottis, and the high-pressure air in the lungs is squeezed and ejected under the rapid contraction of the diaphragm. It is these four consecutive actions that combine to form a complete "coughing" process, and at the same time determine that coughs have different natures, rhythms, sounds and characteristics.

The nature of the cough is dry cough or irritating cough: it is more common in diseases such as upper respiratory tract infection, tracheitis, pneumonia, bronchial foreign body, etc. Wet cough or phlegm cough: more common in diseases such as bronchitis, bronchiectasis, lung abscess, tuberculosis, etc.

The rhythm of cough: single cough: more common in diseases such as laryngitis and tracheitis. Paroxysmal or spasmodic cough: common in diseases such as tracheal foreign body, whooping cough, bronchial asthma, etc. Periodic cough: common in diseases such as chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis.

The symptoms of a baby's cough at night are often caused by many reasons. At this time, parents need to observe carefully to find out the cause and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. Only in this way can the disease be eliminated from the root, the baby can have a healthy body, and the parents can have peace of mind.