Winter is a high incidence of children's respiratory diseases, many parents see that their children have a bad cough, they will think of various ways to give young children cough... However, there are many kinds of reasons for young children's winter cough, can not blindly stop coughing, cough is not only "cough cough cough" so simple, cough caused by different causes will be slightly different in performance.
First, understand the four types of cough
Wind chill cough
Symptoms: frequent cough, heavy throat itching, nasal discharge, or cold and sweatlessness, fever and headache, reddish tongue, thin white moss, tight pulse. Or with cough sputum multi-colored white matter thin.
Warm reminder: The method of Chinese medicine to treat wind chill cough is to loosen the wind and disperse the cold, and promote the lungs to suppress cough. In addition, usually pay attention to rest, strengthen exercise, pay attention to keep warm, and increase or decrease clothing in time according to temperature changes. It is not advisable to eat cool foods, such as watermelon, pears and other fruits, which will aggravate the coolness in the body and make the cough more than ever.
Wind fever cough
Symptoms: cough, no sputum, or sputum thick, not easy to cough up, dry throat pain, thirst, often accompanied by fever, sweating, headache, red tongue, thin yellow moss, pulse floating or floating number.
Warm reminder: The method of chinese medicine to treat wind fever cough is to clear the wind and heat, promote the lungs and relieve cough. The diet should be light and mainly light, and it should not be spicy and fatty, so as not to help heat and fire, aggravate cough.
Sputum fever cough
Symptoms: cough, thick sputum, unpleasant coughing, nasal congestion and turbid nose, sore throat and hoarseness, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy moss, pulse slip and other symptoms.
Warm reminder: When treating this type of cough, you should start with clearing the heat and suppressing the lungs, opening up the phlegm and suppressing the cough. In terms of diet, it is advisable to eat foods that detoxify and diarrhea, foods that suppress cough and asthma, and fresh vegetables rich in vitamins. Fasting cold food, fasting fat and sweet food, fasting oranges.
Phlegm wet cough
Symptoms: cough phlegm, white and thin sputum, wet phlegm between the throat, chest tightness, bad appetite, sleepy look; tongue color is reddish, tongue moss white.
Warm reminder: Some children's cough is due to food accumulation, and children's "injury to food" affects the spleen and stomach transport ability to easily produce phlegm, which causes cough. The principle of treatment is to clear the lungs and dissolve phlegm and strengthen the spleen.
2. Care when coughing
1, air circulation, suitable temperature, humid air
Maintain indoor air circulation, room temperature is 18-20 ° C is appropriate, relative humidity is 60%-70%, humidifiers can be used (to ensure that the humidifier should be cleaned and disinfected frequently, to prevent the sink from growing bacteria), or put a basin of water in the room and other methods to increase air humidity.
2. Drink plenty of water
Drinking plenty of water not only prevents your child from dehydration, but also flushes dilute secretions. At the same time, drinking water can improve blood circulation, so that the waste or toxins produced by the body's metabolism are quickly excreted from the body, thereby reducing the stimulation of the respiratory tract.
3. Take more rest
Children need enough ability to fight off the virus. Therefore, we must provide a comfortable environment for the child, and the atmosphere allows the child to rest, such as holding him comfortably, reading him a book, and telling stories.
4. Head height
Raising your child's head with a towel or pillow can help him breathe more smoothly and can also reduce nasal discharge and drain backwards, causing itching in the throat and worsening cough.
5. Pat your back
Let your child sit up straight, hold your hand in an empty fist, and gently pat your child's chest and back (lung position) more vigorously than burp. This can help the secretions of the respiratory tract become loose and easier for children to excrete.
Third, the medication misunderstanding when coughing
1. Children should use antitussive medicine as soon as they cough
Some parents think that coughing should be antitussive, and children will be treated with antitussive medicines as soon as they cough, and it is very dangerous to take drugs indiscriminately.
2. The child's cough is not directly related to nasal congestion and runny nose
Children cough often have symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose, but parents often only treat the symptoms of cough, and do not know that nasal congestion and runny nose are also the main causes of children's cough.
3. Use anti-inflammatory drugs for children's coughs
Many parents think that the child's cough is inflammation of the respiratory tract, so the child must use anti-inflammatory drugs when coughing, which will have many adverse effects on the child.
4. Children cough and use adult cough medicine
Some parents do not know how to use medicine, do not understand the difference between children and adults, and mistakenly think that as long as the amount of medication is halved or reduced, this practice is very harmful to the child's body.
5. Blindly take Chinese medicine to relieve cough
Some parents believe that the side effects of Chinese medicine are small, and the child coughs and takes Chinese medicine casually, which will cause unexpected consequences. Parents should treat children's coughs scientifically to avoid other complications caused by repeated coughing by children.
Tips: Cough remedies should be used with caution! Cough is menacing, parents are impatient, in addition to taking medicine, but also looking for home remedies everywhere to treat diseases, some cough remedies do have a certain basic pharmacology and health care effects, but the treatment of cough home remedies medical evidence is insufficient, can only be used as auxiliary treatment, and some will aggravate the disease.
Fourth, dietary contraindications when coughing
1. Avoid eating oranges
Many people think that oranges have anti-cough and phlegm effects, so they choose to let children with colds and coughs eat more oranges. In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, orange peel does have the effect of coughing up phlegm, but orange flesh is heated and phlegm.
2. Avoid eating cold food
Cold or frozen drinks should not be eaten when coughing. At this time, if the diet is too cold, it is easy to cause lung qi occlusion, aggravation of symptoms, and will not heal for a long time.
3. Avoid eating fatty and sweet foods
Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung fever, especially in children. When the child coughs, the gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, and the fried food can increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, and it helps to dampness and heat, breeding sputum, making the cough difficult to heal.
4. Avoid eating sweet and sour foods
Acid food often collects phlegm, making it difficult to cough up sputum, so as to aggravate the disease and make the cough difficult to heal. When the cough is severe, apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. are not suitable for eating, and eating sweets will also help heat, making inflammation difficult to cure.
5. Avoid eating supplements
Many parents give some supplements to children with weak constitutions, but when the child's cough is not healed, they should stop taking supplements so as not to make the cough difficult to heal.
In the face of a long cough season, parents must first be in no hurry, scientific prevention and care is an important measure to help children resist the invasion of the virus!
For sick children, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time, so that it will not delay the disease, but also allow the child to recover health as soon as possible and start a happy winter life!