What should I do if my child has a cough for half a month and the medicine doesn't get better?

If a child coughs frequently and has not seen any improvement after taking medicine for a long time. At this time, we need to take good care of the baby. First of all, let the baby rest regularly and reduce outdoor activities as much as possible. Open windows frequently to ventilate the room and breathe fresh air. Children should be allowed to drink more boiled water, as drinking more water can replenish the water in the body. If a child's cough is particularly severe, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment in time to ensure a speedy recovery.

1. Rest and keep warm. Children should reduce activities, increase rest time, and slightly raise the head and chest when lying in bed to allow unobstructed breathing. Keep the indoor air fresh, maintain appropriate temperature and humidity, and avoid convection wind.

2. Ensure adequate water and nutrition supply. Encourage children to drink more water and supplement it intravenously when necessary. Provide easily digestible and nutritious food, and it is advisable to eat liquid or semi-liquid food during fever.

3. Keep the oral cavity clean. Because the child has fever, cough, and has a lot of thick sputum, severe coughing may cause vomiting, so it is necessary to maintain oral hygiene to increase comfort, improve appetite, and promote the excretion of toxins. Infants and young children can be fed with appropriate

Measure boiled water to clean your mouth. Older children should rinse their mouths in the morning, after meals, and before going to bed.

4. Fever care: No special treatment is required if the fever is not high. In case of high fever, physical cooling or drug cooling measures should be taken (see Section 2 of this chapter on high fever care) to prevent convulsions.

5. Observe the nature of respiratory secretions and whether sputum can be coughed up effectively. Guide and encourage children to cough effectively. If the sputum is thick, the humidity in the ward can be appropriately increased. The indoor temperature should be maintained at about 60% to humidify the air and dilute the secretions. Ultrasonic atomization inhalation or steam inhalation can also be used. For children who cannot cough effectively, it is advisable to change their body position frequently, pat their backs, and make them cough.

Respiratory secretions are easy to discharge, which promotes the dissipation of inflammation. If there are a lot of secretions and it affects breathing, use an aspirator to clear the sputum in time and keep the airway open. Those with cough and asthma symptoms can be given oxygen inhalation.

6. Health education: Strengthen nutrition, carry out appropriate outdoor activities, and perform physical exercises to enhance the body's ability to adapt to temperature changes. Add or remove clothes according to temperature changes to avoid catching cold or overheating. During a respiratory disease epidemic, do not

Let children go to public places to avoid cross infection. Actively prevent malnutrition, rickets, anemia and various infectious diseases, get vaccinated on time, and enhance the body's immune capacity.