What medicine should children take for influenza and cough

Nowadays, many children often suffer from many minor symptoms caused by influenza. The most common ones are runny nose and sneezing from time to time in the early stage of the disease, accompanied by mild cough. At this time, parents always don’t care, thinking that coughing is normal and is mostly caused by dry weather. In fact, this is not the case. What is the best medicine for children's influenza cough? This has always been a concern for everyone.

Chinese medicine prescription for preventing and treating influenza and cough

1. Flu symptoms and diagnosis

Now the main influenza diseases are still influenza A and influenza B. Influenza is called a thousand-faced virus and is easy to mutate. Symptoms of influenza include: fever, high fever, body temperature above 39 degrees, headache, body aches, fatigue, runny nose, sore throat and cough. Some patients have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. The disease occurs in clusters, concentrated in kindergartens, schools and families, and is highly contagious. Influenza is prevalent, and children, the elderly, and people with weakened immunity and chronic diseases are susceptible to infection. Influenza is different from the common cold. Its symptoms are severe, and persistent fever often causes viral pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, myocarditis, nephritis, and even multiple organ failure and death. For a clear diagnosis of influenza A or B, a routine blood test will show a white blood cell count of less than 4,000, elevated lymphocytes, and a platelet count of less than 100,000; and a lymph, throat swab or blood test will test positive for influenza virus.

2. Understand the symptoms of each step of influenza development and how to prescribe the right medicine

This winter's flu, Chinese medicine believes that this flu is a kind of warm epidemic, which is caused by the external evil of the warm epidemic and causes fever, body pain, etc., with symptoms of external cold and internal heat. This winter and spring, there was little rain and snow in Beijing, and the air was dry, which easily turned into dryness and damaged yin. The lungs were the first to be affected, causing cough and sputum, which were rarely dry coughs and sticky sputum. After the fever subsides, cough with yellow sputum appears, followed by dry throat, dry cough, sticky sputum and little sputum. Coughing after fever is very common, and the cough lasts for a long time, resulting in many patients seeking medical treatment.

Fever: Use honeysuckle, forsythia, and isatis indigotica to fight viruses and reduce fever. For fever, use Qingkailing capsules or oral liquid, Jinhua Qinggan granules, Chaiyin oral liquid, Shufeng Jiedu capsules, Lianhua Qingwen capsules, etc.

Cough with yellow phlegm: Yellow phlegm is caused by lung heat and phlegm heat. You can use Scutellaria baicalensis, Fritillaria thunbergii, Gypsum gypsum, etc. to clear the lungs and resolve phlegm. Chinese patent medicine for yellow phlegm and lung heat can use antelope to clear the lungs and compound fresh bamboo juice to clear the lungs and resolve phlegm.

Cough with sticky phlegm: Lung heat consumes body fluids. Sticky phlegm can be treated with Adenophora Root, Lilium Bulbs, and Fritillaria cirrhosa to moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm. The Chinese patent medicine Lily Solidifying Gold Oral Liquid, Honey-Refined Fritillaria cirrhosa and Loquat Paste (very popular in the United States recently), etc.

Dry cough: The phlegm heat is reduced but the lung yin and body fluid are severely damaged. You can use Adenophora Root, Platycodon Grandiflorum, and Ophiopogon japonicus to nourish yin and relieve cough. Chinese patent medicines include Yangyin Qingfei Pills or oral liquid.

3. Recommend a tea substitute to prevent spring flu

10 grams of raw astragalus, 6 grams of Acanthopanax senticosus, 5 grams of Isatis indigotica, and 5 grams of honeysuckle.

Prevention of influenza is very important, and prevention methods must pay attention to enhancing human immunity and antiviral properties.

Raw Astragalus replenishes Qi, nourishes the Qi of the lungs and spleen, and enhances human immunity. Acanthopanax ginseng and its close relative Acanthopanax senticosus mainly replenish Qi and kidney, strengthen muscles and bones, relieve wind-cold and dampness, and modern research shows that they can enhance human immunity and prevent influenza. Isatis indigotica clears heat and resists viruses, while honeysuckle clears heat, relieves exterior symptoms, reduces fever and resists viruses.

4. Cough health care recipe

Cough prescription: 10 grams of Adenophora Root, 10 grams of Platycodon Grandiflorum, and 10 grams of Lilium Bulb.

Cough after flu cold, suitable for: dry mouth, little sputum, dry cough, sticky sputum, etc.

Adenophora: nourishes yin and clears heat, moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, benefits the stomach and produces body fluid. It is used to treat chronic cough due to yin deficiency, tuberculosis cough with blood in sputum, dry cough with little sputum, throat congestion due to deficiency heat, and thirst due to loss of body fluid. Not bitter.

Platycodon grandiflorum: relieves cough and eliminates phlegm, clears lungs and relieves sore throat, treats cough, sore throat and excessive phlegm, Korean side dish doraji, food, not bitter.

Lily: nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, clears the heart and soothes the mind, treats chronic cough due to yin deficiency, blood in sputum, late stage of fever, residual heat that has not been cleared, food, not bitter.