The child keeps coughing

Your child’s cough won’t go away? For parents, they are afraid that their children will melt if they hold them in their mouths, and they are afraid that they will fall if they hold them in their hands. Therefore, once a child has any problems, the ones who are most worried are the child's parents. What parents are most worried about now is their children's coughing problem, because many children will not stop coughing once they start, and it is very difficult to get better. This makes parents very distressed, and they don't know what to do.

The biggest difficulty parents face is that their children's cough is not easy to cure. Moreover, many parents lose their backbone at this time and don't know what to do. Therefore, I urgently want to know what to do if my child has a bad cough. So, let me introduce it below.

Why does your child keep coughing? The first step in diagnosis and treatment is to get a clear diagnosis. The main causes of cough include respiratory diseases (inflammation of the pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs, foreign bodies, bleeding, tumors, inhalation of irritating gases, etc.), pleural diseases, cardiovascular diseases (such as myocarditis, arrhythmia) and central factors. The cause of cough is not limited to the lungs, but the location of cough is not far from the lungs. As the saying goes, "The lung qi is like a bell that rings when it is struck." Cough is the main symptom caused by external evil or dysfunction of internal organs, which leads to dysfunction of the lung's functions of dispersing and descending, controlling qi, regulating breathing, controlling regulation, and regulating water channels.

It is important to distinguish whether a cough is infectious or allergic, acute or chronic, involving the upper or lower respiratory tract, or external or internal injury. It is also important to pay attention to the time of coughing: those who cough more often before noon have fire in the stomach, those who cough in the afternoon mostly have yin deficiency, those who cough in the evening have fire floating in the lungs, and those who cough more often at dawn have food accumulation in the stomach.

Treatment should be directed at the symptoms. When the sputum is thick and difficult to cough up, you should drink enough water to dilute the sputum. You can also use expectorants such as Qutanling, fresh bamboo juice and nebulization inhalation therapy to help expectoration. In case of severe cough, sedatives such as Phenergan can be used to stop the cough.

The above is a detailed introduction to children’s persistent cough. I hope it can be helpful to parents. In addition, parents should be reminded that when their children have health problems, they should not worry too much, and should not blindly choose medicine for their children. They must take their children to the hospital for examination in time to confirm the cause of their children's cough and provide symptomatic treatment.