How to treat children who love coughing

If a child likes to cough, it means that the child's resistance is relatively poor. He or she often coughs due to a cold. For such children, even if they do not cough normally, they should be taken care of and their diet should be adjusted. Children should be allowed to exercise more, which will help improve the body's resistance to disease. Children's coughs must be treated in time. To prevent acute infection.

How to treat children who love coughing

When a child coughs, parents will choose to take the baby to see a doctor, take medicine, get an injection, or hang an IV. Taking medicine will affect your baby's appetite. Without appetite and insufficient nutrition, the baby’s resistance will be poor. Babies with poor resistance are prone to catching colds and coughing, so the children will fall into a vicious cycle.

(1) If your baby suddenly has a severe cough and difficulty breathing, there may be a foreign object blocking the trachea. Things that are easy to swallow include peanuts, pencil sleeves, pills, buttons, coins, candies, etc. Emergency measures should be taken immediately. If no foreign object is found, if it is stuck in the airway, the foreign object may be very dangerous.

(2) If you have a high fever, cough, wheezing and difficulty breathing, you should immediately take your baby to the hospital for emergency treatment.

(3) Babies are very susceptible to bronchiolitis, a form of pneumonia that manifests itself in a pale, often purple face or rapid breathing. If the baby is found to have a sunken chest wall when inhaling, the baby should be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately.

Observe for a long time, don't rush to the hospital for cough

(1) Although there is cough and fever, the patient is in good spirits. This is probably due to a cold or tonsillitis.

(2) After catching a cold and having a fever, I keep coughing.

(3) Coughing with a lot of phlegm but no lethargy.

(4) Coughing only occurs in the early morning.

(5) Mild cough after stress or exercise.

Types of baby cough

(1) Acute cough

It refers to a disease course of less than 2 weeks, which is more common in upper or lower respiratory tract infections and asthma exacerbations.

(2) Subacute cough

It refers to a process that takes more than 2 weeks and less than 4 weeks. In addition to respiratory infections, it can also be seen in bacterial sinusitis and asthma.

(3) Chronic cough

If cough symptoms persist for more than 4 weeks, it is considered a chronic cough.