What should I do if my child keeps coughing after he recovers?

Recently, there has been a high incidence of acute respiratory diseases in various places. Among those who have been infected, many have reported that they feel that they have recovered, but the cough persists, especially in children, who have repeated coughs, runny nose, and loss of appetite for a long time. Why does the child keep coughing after recovery, and what can parents do to help the child effectively relieve cough and cough during this process?

At a press conference held by the National Health Commission on December 2, Wu Liqun, director of the Department of Pediatrics at the East Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, introduced that after respiratory tract infections in children in winter, such as influenza, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, bacteria or other viral infections, children often have coughing symptoms in addition to fever.

"After the corresponding anti-infective and antiviral treatment, there is often a symptom left that is cough, and some children will have symptoms of cough and phlegm that will last for a long time. Wu Liqun said.

So, how to effectively relieve cough cough cough?

Wu Liqun introduced that traditional Chinese medicine adopts the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment, which can be used internally or externally to clear away residual evils, help healthy qi, strengthen the spleen and dissolve phlegm, and relieve cough and phlegm. Among them, the drugs to be taken internally include traditional Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine prescribed according to the individual condition of the child. External treatment methods such as cupping, acupoint massage, etc.

If the child has a cough for a long time, Wu Liqun suggested that dietary therapy can also be used. The details are as follows ↓

At the press conference of the National Health Commission held on November 26, Zhang Zhongde, vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, also answered the question of the child's cough after recovery.

Zhang Zhongde introduced, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, children are "immature yin and immature yang" physique, when the disease is just right, the spleen and stomach function is more fragile, at this time some parents are more anxious, will give their children tonics, too much will easily increase the burden of the spleen and stomach, cause cough. There is also a situation where after the child has a fever, 38 degrees or 39 degrees, parents want to reduce the fever after 6 hours or 5 hours and do not rebound, and the medication is very fierce. "If it is too bitter cold or too hot, it is easy to 'close the door and stay behind', and the evil of wind cold or wind heat will not be clean. ”

In this regard, Zhang Zhongde suggested that parents should distinguish whether their child's condition belongs to wind heat or wind cold before treating cough. The details are as follows ↓

There are also some patients with cough who have already recovered, but the cough worsens after eating a little fruit and cold drinks.

What's going on?

Zhang Zhongde introduced that many parents pay great attention to giving their children fruits and vegetables, but things must be reversed, if they only eat these foods, and if the patient's physique is relatively cold, it is easy to cough after eating. Especially at night, it is easier to cough, runny nose, and sweat. Therefore, parents should judge clearly and give their children the correct dietary therapy.

In addition, Zhang Zhongde also introduced some traditional Chinese medicine methods, such as using a hair dryer to help the child blow the large vertebrae, rubbing the trachea with ginger, which helps to relieve cough, provided that the child does not have severe pneumonia and other serious symptoms, if there is, it is necessary to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine for treatment, and go to the hospital for relevant examinations in time.

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Curator/Poster Design: Wang Ying 

Final review: Chen Jingchao 

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