Babies have poor resistance, colds and coughs often occur in winter, some babies cough up for a long time, and parents are always worried about their children coughing up pneumonia. So, does a cough turn into pneumonia after a long time? Regarding the relationship between cough and pneumonia and how to care for the baby's cough, parents and parents should learn it quickly!
Cough is a disease, can it be cured?
It should be known that cough is a symptom, there are many causes, and it is unscientific to cough for a long time and become pneumonia. Whether it's a common cold or pneumonia, your baby may cough. Pneumonia is only one of the causes of coughing, not the result of a long-term cough. If a cough occurs, we should pay attention to finding the cause of the cough and treating it symptomatically.
Coughing is a protective reflex of the body that promotes the discharge of secretions from the respiratory tract. Autumn and winter are relatively dry, and environmental factors will cause the human body to be prone to coughing, such as smog, dust, irritating odor, dry air, which will have a greater impact on patients with specific constitutions.
The essential difference between the common cold and pneumonia
The common cold is an upper respiratory tract infection with infection concentrated in the nasopharynx; pneumonia is a lower respiratory tract infection with infection concentrated in the bronchi area of the lungs. Ordinary bacterial viruses can only cause upper respiratory tract infections, which means that colds do not cause pneumonia, and it is pneumococcus that cause pneumonia, which is not the same.
What should I do if my baby's cough does not heal for a long time?
Cough for a long time, more than four weeks, we call it chronic cough, it has many causes, you need to go to the hospital for formal examination to determine the cause.
In the treatment of cough, many parents also have a lot of misunderstandings, as soon as they hear the baby's cough, they are very distressed, want to suppress the cough, and give the child a strong antitussive drug. In fact, it is very dangerous to take cough medicine when coughing, and it is not recommended to use too strong cough drugs for children at present. Cough medicines such as dextromethorphan and codeine cannot be used in children.
Cough is a protective reflex, in the case of cough is not so severe, if the cough is strong, it is not a good thing to leave some secretions and foreign bodies that should be discharged in the airway, and some other drugs may have the risk of respiratory depression, which may lead to death, and it is recommended that cough medicines can only be used after 4-6 years of age.
If the child coughs too intensely, under the condition of a clear cause, nebulization treatment can be done, which is good for alleviating the symptoms of cough, but nebulization treatment should also be treated under the guidance of a doctor.
Do I need to run to the hospital immediately for a cough?
Children generally cough three or five times is a normal phenomenon, does not need special treatment, can be observed at home first. Most coughs caused by viral infections last for 3-5 days, and family members do not always have to run to the hospital, increasing the chance of cross-infection.
If the child's cough is not serious, you can first observe home care, pay attention to keeping the environment moist, when the outdoor air condition is good, ventilate frequently, drink more warm boiled water, if it is a pure breast milk baby under 6 months, feed more breast milk. In addition, it is possible to do saline atomization, and if the mother does not have a nebulization device at home, you can also try bathroom steam, and it is also possible to let the baby sit in the bathroom full of warm steam for 5-10 minutes.
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If your baby coughs, the following conditions occur
See a doctor today!
(1) Dyspnea, nose flapping, cyanosis of the lips, mental atrophy and other manifestations;
(2) Persistent fever, cough with fever or wheezing, or with more sputum;
(3) Long cough and abnormal sound need to be paid attention to. Cough is divided into dry cough and wet cough, dry cough is no phlegm cough, small baby because it will not be sputum, so parents should listen carefully to the sound of his cough, distinguish whether there is phlegm, so as to help judge the cause and condition. If the baby has a barking cough, hoarseness, and coughing up empty, it may be laryngitis.
(4) Small babies under 3 months of age have coughs, coughs caused by foreign body inhalation, and babies with symptoms of mental atrophy, unwillingness to eat, irritability and difficulty falling asleep, or coughing for more than 3 weeks, need to seek medical treatment in time.
How to prevent your baby's cough on a daily basis?
Usually, parents should let the baby exercise more to enhance the physique, and during the high incidence of disease, that is, at 7 o'clock, try to avoid taking the baby to a place with many people. If someone in a family member coughs, pay attention to wearing a mask to prevent infection.
During the baby's cough, the diet should be light, try to avoid eating spicy food, but also avoid eating some seafood, it is recommended to drink more water, dilute sputum, and promote sputum discharge. Many parents like to use dietary therapy methods to treat the baby's cough, such as rock sugar pear, salt steamed oranges, etc., in the absence of a certain cause, these practices may be in vain, or even delay the disease.
Article source: Super Idea King