"The cough has been cured for a week, how can it not be good!"
"It's good during the day, but it can't stop coughing at night."
"Food supplements are not good, it is not as fast as feeding medicine!"
In the winter, the child will cough non-stop, coughing in the child's body, and the pain is in the mother's heart.
The mothers used eighteen martial arts, and each time it seemed to be difficult to cure.
Why is a little cough so hard? May be related to not knowing cough!
Cough that has been misunderstood
Probably in the eyes of most people, just coughing is sick.
In fact, cough is also divided into five major types, either cough or sick.
Physiological type
Coughing is a measure that the body takes to protect the throat and clean the respiratory tract.
Sometimes occasional coughing is also beneficial for children, such as the discharge of viruses in saliva, foreign bodies, etc., is a normal defense mechanism.
Some children cough a few times in the morning to clear the residual mucus from the respiratory tract.
There is also a cold air blowing outside, and the cold air irritates the respiratory mucosa, which can also cause irritating coughing.
Therefore, parents do not have to be too nervous.
Wind chill type
Frequent cough, heavy throat itching, nasal discharge, or cold and sweatless, fever and headache, reddish tongue, thin white moss.
Sometimes, or with cough sputum polychromatic white matter thin.
At this time, the most important thing is to loosen the wind and cold, promote the lungs and relieve cough, and it is not advisable to eat benign food at this time, so as not to aggravate the cough.
Wind-hot type
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.
The wind and heat type treatment method is exactly the opposite of the wind cold type, and it should be mainly based on wind and heat removal.
The diet should be light, and it is not advisable to eat spicy and greasy, so as not to help heat and fire.
Sputum fever type
Cough, thick sputum, unpleasant coughing, nasal congestion, hoarseness, sore throat, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy moss.
As long as the sputum fever type is to clear the heat and suppress the lungs, open up phlegm and cough, the diet should also eat more cough and diarrhea fire, phlegm and asthma food.
You should eat more fresh vegetables rich in vitamins, fast cold, greasy foods, and also fasten oranges.
Sputum wet type
Cough phlegm, white and thin sputum, wet phlegm between the throat, chest tightness, bad appetite, sleepy look, pale red tongue, white tongue.
Sometimes the child's cough may be related to the accumulation of food, and after "injuring food", it is easy to produce phlegm that affects the spleen and stomach transport ability, which causes cough.
Therefore, for the wet type of sputum, the phlegm should be cleared and the spleen should be strengthened.
So, having said all this, what should parents pay attention to and how should they do it?
The cough wasn't so terrible
I am afraid that I will rush to the doctor in a hurry
Children cough, parents are anxious about various home remedies, drugs casually give children to eat, do not know that it is easy to hurt children.
If your child is under 2 years of age, no over-the-counter medicines can be taken.
This has been suggested by the US FDA:
Children under the age of 6 should not take any of the over-the-counter cough medications that may have serious side effects against children under the age of 6.
Moreover, antibiotics should also be used according to the guidance of a doctor in cases where a bacterial infection is demonstrated.
Although there is indeed a phenomenon of "home remedies to cure serious diseases", most of the folk remedies have not yet been scientifically verified.
Therefore, for children, parents are still cautious.
After all, coughing is not a serious disease, and if you don't get it right, you will suffer.
So, medicine can not be taken casually, how to make children more comfortable?
Four tips to relieve cough pain
Moisturizes the respiratory tract moist
The humidifier can increase the air humidity and the child can be more comfortable.
Open windows frequently for ventilation
Dirt in the air may also cause a child's irritating cough.
Frequent ventilation can be used in combination with air purifiers.
Allows air to circulate regularly, reducing irritation.
Drink plenty of warm boiled water
Warm boiled water is relatively warm and not as irritating as cold and hot water.
It can moisten the respiratory tract, dilute the sputum stuck to the pharynx, reduce cough caused by air dryness, and help the sputum to be discharged.
Severe night cough can elevate the upper body
When sleeping at night, lying flat will prevent respiratory secretions from flowing down, and secretions will easily accumulate in the back of the throat, causing irritating coughs.
Moreover, sputum is easy to thicken at night, causing cough to worsen.
In this case, you can put your child's upper body higher while sleeping, and increase the night pat back to alleviate it.
Temperatures drop sharply in autumn and winter, and coughing in children is really common.
The focus is not on the child to take medicine immediately to solve the cough, but according to the condition of the right medicine.