How to treat chronic bronchitis in children?

When a child is sick, not only will the child be very painful and uncomfortable, but parents will also be very worried and distressed. The emergence of various diseases has an impact on the baby's health. Bronchitis is a common phenomenon, and the harm is also relatively serious. It needs to be treated in time. So how to treat chronic bronchitis in children? Parents should learn more about this issue and take a look at the relevant introduction in the article.

Treatment of chronic bronchitis in children:

1. Treatment

1. General measures must pay attention to nutrition, strengthen outdoor activities and physical exercise. Related causes such as sinusitis, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, etc. should be cured promptly. After severe pneumonia, follow-up observation for a long time is necessary, especially for children with adenovirus pneumonia, who should undergo X-ray examinations until recovery. Pay attention to seasonal changes and avoid possible allergens to reduce the number of attacks. Nonspecific triple vaccine injection can increase serum interferon and leukocyte phagocytic ability and is worth trying.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Traditional Chinese Medicine calls this disease "internal injury cough", which is mostly caused by long-term cough affecting the dysfunction of internal organs. According to clinical manifestations, it is divided into phlegm cough and lung dryness cough. The treatment method is mainly to strengthen the spleen and dry dampness, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and nourish yin and moisten the lungs. The treatment can be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment combined with clinical manifestations.

(1) Cough due to phlegm and fluid: The main symptoms are coughing with a lot of phlegm. The phlegm is white and thin and easy to cough up. There is also chest tightness and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, normal tongue texture, white and greasy tongue coating, and a slippery or moist pulse. Treatment is to strengthen the spleen and dry dampness, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Erchen Decoction is often used with modifications. Prescription example: Poria 9g, Tangerine peel 9g, Pinellia 6g, Apricot kernel 6g, Perilla seed 6g, White mustard seed 1.5g. Additions and subtractions are possible: ① For loose stools and greasy white tongue coating, add 9g of stir-fried coix seed and 9g of codonopsis pilosula, and remove apricot kernel and perilla seed. ② When the phlegm sounds sticky, add 1.5g of asarum and 3g of ginger.

(2) Cough caused by dryness of the lungs: chronic cough, dry cough with little sputum, hot flashes due to yin deficiency, thirst and dry throat, or weight loss and night sweats, hot hands and soles, slightly red tongue, tongue coating or little coating, and a thin and rapid pulse. Treatment is to nourish yin, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Adenophora and Ophiopogon Decoction with modifications is often used. Prescription example: Adenophora 9g, Ophiopogon 9g, Radix Phellodendri 9g, Stemona 9g, Aster 9g, Apricot 6g, Indigo 3g, Prunus mume 9g. Addition and subtraction are as follows: ① For dry cough with little sputum that is difficult to cough up, add Fritillaria 9g. ② If the cough does not heal for a long time (without external symptoms), add Schisandra 9g or Ginkgo 9g. When chronic bronchitis occurs acutely, you can refer to the general treatment and traditional Chinese medicine treatment of acute bronchitis. It must be emphasized that most domestic and foreign scholars currently believe that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis are mostly caused by bacterial infections, so it is also very important to use relevant antibacterial drugs for treatment.

(ii) Prognosis: If the attacks of chronic bronchitis cannot be effectively controlled, it often affects the normal development of children, causes physical deterioration, or causes complications that affect the prognosis. Chronic bronchitis in children is not caused by a single cause, but may be related to multiple factors such as low immune function, bronchial foreign bodies, and congenital bronchial and pulmonary developmental abnormalities. Through pediatric chest X-ray examination or even bronchoscopy, once chronic bronchitis in children and its cause are identified, the cause must be actively eliminated, combined with anti-infection, symptomatic treatment and other measures. The vast majority of children can be cured and have a good prognosis.

The article provides a detailed introduction to the treatment methods of chronic bronchitis in children, hoping that it will be helpful to parents. People in life should understand this disease, especially parents should master the methods of treating this disease. When a child develops chronic bronchitis, be sure to take the baby to the hospital for treatment in time.