What should I do if my child has wheezing when he catches a cold?

It is common for children to catch a cold during their growth process. When a child catches a cold, as long as the parents take good care of the child and use some medicine, the child will recover quickly. If a child starts wheezing after catching a cold, mothers should pay attention, as this phenomenon is likely caused by asthma. When treating it, you cannot treat it like a cold.

Why does my child wheeze when he catches a cold?

First of all, this situation is considered to be a typical manifestation caused by asthma. In this case, it is necessary to actively check the lung function and actively use some cough and asthma suppressants to achieve good treatment results.

What should I do if my child has wheezing when he catches a cold?

1. Actively prevent colds

If a child's cold and cough are not cured for a long time, the condition can easily worsen and the cough may turn into asthma. Therefore, parents should actively prevent the occurrence of respiratory diseases in their babies and strengthen airway care. The first thing is to prevent colds. Colds are not only an important cause of asthma, but also interfere with the recovery process. To prevent children from catching a cold, it is best to go to crowded public places as much as possible.

2. Stay away from allergens

As mentioned earlier, there are many special smells in life that may become allergens for children's asthma, so parents should be careful about exposing their children to these allergens. In addition, ensure that your child's diet is light and nutritious, and avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, spicy, overly sour or sweet foods, as well as seafood such as fish and shrimp that are prone to cause allergies.

3. Appropriate physical exercise

When your baby has an asthma attack, you should avoid strenuous physical exercise to avoid aggravating the condition. However, during the remission period of asthma, children should be encouraged to participate in appropriate exercise, as strengthening physical fitness is the best way to fight asthma. The amount of exercise for asthmatic babies should be increased from small to large, and the intensity should be increased from weak to strong, so that they can gradually adapt. Persisting in appropriate exercise can promote blood circulation and metabolism, enhance cardiopulmonary function, and improve the body's ability to adapt to the environment and resist disease.

The difference between allergic cough and asthma

The most important distinction, medically speaking, is whether the patient has "airway hyperresponsiveness". Children with asthma not only have symptoms of coughing, but also have airway hyperresponsiveness; however, if children with allergic cough only cough, without wheezing symptoms and airway hyperresponsiveness, they cannot be considered to have asthma. Determining whether a child has "airway hyperresponsiveness" is done through airway responsiveness measurements. It is a method used to test the degree of bronchial constriction in response to inhaled irritants.

Normally, some slight stimuli in the airways of normal people do not trigger smooth muscle contraction or only produce a weak contraction reaction; however, under the same stimulation, asthma patients may be in an overreaction state due to airway inflammation, showing sensitive and excessive bronchial smooth muscle contraction reaction, causing airway narrowing and increased airway resistance, thereby causing symptoms such as coughing, chest tightness and wheezing.