Many babies cough and are diagnosed with bronchitis. The disease is common in children, but many parents confuse it with colds.
Simply put, bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (the tube of gas transport during breathing) that causes symptoms such as coughing and sputum production.
Bronchitis is mostly developed by colds, and if the cold does not get better, it will become bronchitis if it develops further.
Although colds and bronchitis have nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, or fever, the discomfort in the nasopharynx is very pronounced when a cold is caught, but if the cough is repeated or aggravated, it may be bronchitis.
Any disease has its main initial symptoms, and grasping these can effectively suspect the possibility of the disease and participate in diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.
There are three aspects that can be used as a reference to determine whether your baby has bronchitis:
Cough and sputum production
The main symptom of bronchitis is coughing, sputum production, which may last for 2-3 weeks. Initially it is mainly a dry cough, but gradually there will be a sputum sound when coughing. It may be thin white sputum, yellow sputum or green mucus sputum.
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Some bronchitis may present with wheezing symptoms, manifested by a relatively high-pitched sound in the airways when exhaling, like a whistle, and is often seen in children under 2 years of age.
Nasal congestion, sneezing and other cold symptoms
Bronchitis may also have some cold symptoms, such as nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, etc., generally no fever, or early on, that is, the first 1-3 days of moderate and low-grade fever.
In general, if the baby has symptoms such as cough, sputum cough or wheezing, it is necessary to suspect whether he has bronchitis and take the baby to the hospital as soon as possible to find a doctor for evaluation and diagnosis.
If your baby is diagnosed with bronchitis, parents need to care like this:
Daily living aspects
Give your baby plenty of rest to avoid excessive fatigue. And wash your hands frequently and do a good job of cleaning and hygiene. Especially when coughing and sneezing, pay attention to helping your baby cover your mouth and nose with your elbows, or discard the tissues and wash their hands after using a tissue to cover it.
Dietary aspects
Get plenty of water.
Ensure a healthy diet and avoid food allergies.
Provide some warm liquid food such as chicken soup.
Relieves cough in terms
For the baby's cough and age, the 1-year-old baby can try to drink a little honey; for children over 4 years old, you can consider eating throat lozenges and so on.
Avoid inhaling second-hand smoke in your baby.
Pay attention to air moisturization. A clean humidifier can be used at home to keep the room moist at about 50%.
Parents should note that although bronchitis is divided into acute and chronic, most children are acute bronchitis, chronic is relatively rare, so if the child is repeatedly sick for a period of time, in fact, it may be multiple colds, not necessarily chronic bronchitis.
The safety and health of the baby is the biggest wish of parents, when the baby has some bad disease symptoms, parents or family members should be vigilant and judgmental, seek medical treatment in time, actively intervene, and take care of careful care, and the baby will gradually recover.