It is the "outbreak period" of children's coughs, and in the face of one cough after another, parents have not been calm: Is this a cold? Do you want to take cough medicine quickly? Will doing atomization hurt your child? In fact, regarding children's cough, many people's understanding and practices may be wrong. Let's re-recognize "cough".
Guests of this issue
Xu Huifu
Wuhan First Hospital
Director of Pediatrics
He is a standing committee member of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Association of Integrative Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, a vice chairman of the Pediatric Branch of the Hubei Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a chairman of the Pediatric Branch of the Wuhan Association of Integrative Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.
He has been working in pediatrics for more than 30 years, and is good at using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine methods to treat children's respiratory viral infections and digestive diseases, such as childhood asthma, anorexia, tics, etc.
Is coughing a bad thing?
Parents should be reminded here to change a certain "prejudice" against coughing.
In fact, cough is a self-protective defense line of the human body, which is an instinctive reaction. Whenever viruses, bacteria, foreign bodies, etc. "invade" the respiratory tract, the cough will "move" and drive the "intruder" away through the coughing action.
However, many parents' first reaction when they hear their children coughing is: hurry up and take medicine!
However, if foreign bodies or irritants that enter the human body through the respiratory tract are not eliminated by coughing, it is likely to aggravate the child's condition. Therefore, if the baby is not coughing until it is particularly uncomfortable, do not give the child cough medicine casually.
However, coughing is not only good.
However, the child's cough is too frequent and intense, especially frequent night cough, which affects the normal quality of life, and it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time. In addition, cough may also be a sign of some diseases, parents should observe closely.
This cough should be alarmed!
Cough variant asthma takes cough as the main or only symptom, and there are no symptoms of typical asthma such as wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath, which is also its "variation", so cough variant asthma is easily ignored or misdiagnosed clinically.
When the cough persists or recurs for more than 1 month, it must be taken very seriously, as this can be a precursor to the development of bronchial "asthma".
Especially those who are allergic to the constitution themselves, such as allergic rhinitis, prone to eczema and other children, when there are chronic and repeated cough symptoms, they should be vigilant about whether it will be a disaster caused by asthma.
Will I get pneumonia after coughing for a long time?
Pneumonia "pot", cough does not back. Coughing does not cause pneumonia, but pneumonia can cause coughing. Cough is just a symptom, but it can be caused by many causes, and pneumonia is just one of them.
Vaccination is the most effective means to prevent pneumonia caused by this pathogen, experts suggest that parents should actively vaccinate their children with Streptococcus pneumoniae 13-valent vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae vaccine, influenza vaccine and other vaccines
In addition, usually pay attention to hand hygiene, often wash hands for children, you can use soap, hand sanitizer can also use hand sanitizer.
Face your child coughing
Parents don't step on these "pits"
1. If the child coughs, can he eat sweets?
Not recommended to eat.
Especially in the case of more sputum, sweets will irritate the throat, resulting in an increase in secretions in the throat area, which will aggravate cough symptoms and increase sputum.
It is recommended that cakes, biscuits, bread, etc. be eaten less, but honey, sydney pear, white fungus, etc., can be eaten appropriately, which has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough and phlegm.
2, the child cough, just go to atomization?
Ordinary cough and nasal congestion do not need to be atomized. If your child coughs repeatedly, coughs after infection, asthma, etc., these conditions can be relieved by doing nebulization.
3, cough is inflammation, quickly take anti-inflammatory drugs, use antibiotics?
Miss by a mile!
Most children's acute coughs are caused by colds, mostly viral infections, antibiotics are only effective for bacterial infections, and coughs caused by viral infections are not effective.
If you repeatedly take antibiotics to your child for a long time, not only can you not stop coughing, but you will also develop drug resistance or cause allergies, which will bring greater potential harm to your child's body.
