What to do if your child coughs at night

There are many factors that cause children to cough, which have a significant impact on their bodies. In particular, many children are prone to coughing at night. Due to unknown factors, parents are very worried and fear that the disease will cause more serious consequences to their children's health. So, what should we do if our children cough at night? Let’s take a closer look below.

1. Coughs caused by general pathogens or inflammation can be cured by taking some anti-inflammatory drugs and cough and expectorant drugs.

2. For mycoplasma infection, general anti-inflammatory drugs such as penicillin and cephalosporin are ineffective. The cough caused by mycoplasma is more severe at night, with little or no sputum, and the cough is irritating and continuous with a heavy cough. Blood can be drawn for mycoplasma testing 5 days after onset of the disease. If the result is positive, it means mycoplasma infection and the medication is azithromycin or roxithromycin. Treatment should be more than 10 days.

3. Food accumulation cough. This type of cough is more severe at night and there is phlegm in the throat. This type of cough is caused by indigestion due to irregular diet, so control your diet, eat less to give the stomach and intestines more rest, and at the same time take some medicines to aid digestion and eliminate accumulation, and take some medicines to eliminate accumulation and relieve cough.

4. Acute attacks of chronic pharyngitis can also cause coughing. This type of cough is caused by itching in the throat. The stimulation of the itching causes coughing, and infusion treatment is more effective.

5. If the cough causes pneumonia, it is difficult to cure the cough by taking medicine, and intravenous infusion is required to control it. Moreover, the cough caused by pneumonia is more obvious at night.

The above is an introduction to what to do if your child coughs at night. I hope it will be helpful to parents. There are many factors that cause children to cough. In daily life, if a child coughs at night, you can take these measures to solve the problem, avoid causing serious harm to the child's health, and help the child develop good living habits.