Children cough at night

A child’s body and beauty are very fragile. Many parents will find that their children will cough at night as soon as they reach adulthood. Some children even cough after waking up in the middle of the night. So what is going on with the child’s cough? The following article will give you a detailed introduction.

Cough is an important symptom of respiratory tract infection in children. It can be divided into dry cough and wet cough, and its symptoms can be mild or severe. In fact, coughing is not always a bad thing, it is also a protective reflex action.

The cough reflex can often effectively clear secretions in the respiratory tract or foreign objects that enter the trachea. For example, when the respiratory mucosa is inflamed, the amount of sputum increases, which reflexively causes coughing, which is conducive to expectoration. Therefore, if children use cough suppressants as soon as they have cough symptoms, it will suppress the cough reflex, hinder the discharge of respiratory secretions, and may also cause sputum to block the airway, resulting in emphysema or atelectasis.

Therefore, when children have a cough, do not use cough suppressants at the beginning. The correct approach is: maintain the humidity and temperature of the indoor air to allow air circulation; keep the respiratory tract unobstructed; let the child drink more water to thin the viscosity of his respiratory secretions to facilitate coughing up phlegm; try to use expectorants instead of cough suppressants. However, when the cough is severe, vomiting occurs and affects eating, or the chest pressure increases significantly, or it affects sleep, you may consider using a small amount of cough suppressant to relieve the cough.

We have learned the main reason why children cough at night. Friends, in life, we must pay attention to children’s diet. Eating irritating foods will cause certain irritation to children’s lungs and cause coughing.