After entering the winter, many parents reacted:
"Children always start coughing at 2 or 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, obviously during the day!"
"Especially until the second half of the night, I was coughing all the time..."
"Sometimes we are woken up in the middle of the night by a baby cough, and we feel bad when we see him coughing badly."
And some children: get up in the morning, you must also cough for 5 minutes; when you take a nap, you also have to cough a few meanings
It makes parents almost nervous
The hospital can not check the problem, taking medicine for 2 months is useless, anxiety will gradually spread...
Today, Xiaobian will do a deep analysis of the problem of "cough medicine"!
When it comes to coughing, 99% of people's first reaction is: stop coughing!
You must have been brainwashed by this marketing copy:
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In fact: this sentence reverses the causal relationship between "cough" and "pneumonia".
Only pneumonia will cause coughing; and coughing alone will not cause pneumonia!
So baby cough, parents must first know "which medicines can not be eaten indiscriminately" do not be kind to do bad things!
1. Cough prohibited drugs: cough medicines containing codeine (banned under 18 years old)
(There are many brands involved, and only the ingredient names in the table are used)
In September 2018, the FOOD and Drug Administration blacklisted cold and cough medicines containing codeine on the blacklist for children under the age of 18.
Reason for disabling: Codeine and morphine are both extracted from poppy husks. Long-term use of such drugs to suppress cough can cause dependence and addiction, and even endanger life.
(It is also not recommended for children to use cough medicines containing opioid powder and opioid tinctures)
2. Parents abuse the drug: compound cold medicine/cough preparation (children under 6 years old, use on the advice of a doctor)
The advantage of the compound preparation is that one medication can alleviate multiple symptoms, but the disadvantage is that there may be ingredients that the baby does not need, and eating it is not only ineffective, but also has to face the risks caused by taking medicine.
American Academy of Pediatrics AAP clearly recommends that over-the-counter cough and cold medications are not recommended for babies under the age of 6.
So, if you don't understand the efficacy and age of all the ingredients in these compounds, don't give them to your baby without permission.
Having said so many medicines that cannot be used indiscriminately, what is good for the child to cough?
Before saying that, first of all, we must help parents solve a "big misunderstanding":
Remember: coughing is not a bad thing, but a protective symptom for your child!
Therefore, for most people, cough "taboo" is a cough suppressant!
Because cough suppressants inhibit this protective reflex, sputum can not be discharged smoothly, sputum accumulates in the trachea and bronchi, but affects respiratory function, and even leads to aggravation of the disease!
On the other hand, some central cough drugs may have side effects such as respiratory depression, and some are also addictive, so it is not recommended for infants and young children to use cough drugs.
So the child coughs up all night, which affects normal eating, sleeping and learning, or can't eat any cough medicine?
For the above conditions, single-ingredient cough medicines can be used under the guidance of a doctor, such as:
Children over 4 years old, recommended use:
For children under 4 years of age, it is recommended to use:
Parents remember: don't think that as long as you cough, you must alleviate it in a short period of time, that is a very unscientific approach.
So, to what extent do you need to go to the doctor?
With a large amount of yellow-purulent sputum and a thicker sputum
with hemoptysis or blood in sputum
With fever, antipyretic drugs are used, and 2 to 3 times are ineffective
There is difficulty breathing, breathing is difficult
with syncope or dizziness
With swollen ankles or weight loss
with chest pain (urgent doctor see)
Cough caused by foreign bodies in the airways (see a doctor immediately)
Children are accompanied by mental burnout, poor food intake, drowsiness, etc
In the process of weekday nursing, there are also some parents who like to use "food therapy" to relieve the baby's cough, so is this method really reliable?
1. Is dietary therapy really reliable? (Steamed oranges, pears, apples)
In fact, from the perspective of modern medicine, these Internet celebrity practices may alleviate cough symptoms to a certain extent!
Because: warm liquid, sweet food can effectively alleviate cough symptoms, but the safety risks can not be ignored.
The excess sugar in pear paste and rock sugar sydney pear will often be eaten to develop a sweet taste of children, and long-term eating will lead to children's obesity; while salt-steamed oranges increase the risk of future hypertension and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is really not cost-effective.
This dietary therapy is not recommended from a health perspective.
2, cough, is there anything that needs to be avoided?
To sum up: cough receptors are mainly distributed in the respiratory tract rather than the gastrointestinal tract, and the impact of food on cough is very small.
3, the child cough is always bad, do you want to check the allergen?
No, you don't.
Chronic cough, food allergen detection reference is very small and is usually not recommended.
Coughing only and no other food allergies are very likely.
A positive allergen test does not mean that the food is allergic, and it does not need to be avoided.
There are no allergy-related symptoms and no need to test for allergens.
4. Is the cough atomized more harmful than infusion?
This statement is nonsense, because: infusion is just a way of administration, and so is atomization.
They differ only in the condition to which they apply:
Atomization is mainly suitable for respiratory diseases, such as asthma, after nebulization inhalation of drugs, the drug can directly play a role in the respiratory tract.
If you are a severely dehydrated patient with diarrhea, it is natural that the infusion of supplemental water and electrolytes will be more effective. So atomization and infusion is not a question of which is more effective or more harmful, but of which treatment is more appropriate.
All in all, we have too many misconceptions about coughing!
Parents just have to remember one sentence:
Respond to cough, don't do this simply to relieve cough
"A stupid thing that cures the symptoms but not the root causes!"
To cure cough, "cough medicine" is a taboo
Timely medical treatment is king!
A forward, the family group needs ta!