Hearing children cough always worries parents. Cough is a way for the human body to clear mucus and other secretions from the respiratory tract, and it is also a physical reaction to protect the respiratory tract. Does the child have a dry cough, phlegm or bad breath? Identifying a child's cough is the key to finding out the problem. This article helps you find out the culprit of cough, and then provides the best relief symptoms and treatment methods, so that you can know when to worry and when not to worry, and help your child recover as soon as possible.
Cough symptoms 1: a strong dry cough with a very clear voice, similar to the roar of a seal, usually occurring at midnight. This kind of sound is different from the cough you have heard before.
Other symptoms: the child's condition is relieved during the day and serious at night. He may have a low fever. When he is seriously ill, he will make a harsh gasp when he inhales, similar to the sobbing of a child after crying for a long time.
Suspect: Membranous laryngitis, an infectious virus infection, can cause dilation and contraction of throat and trachea. This virus usually attacks children from 6 months to 3 years old. (Adults and older children have wide windpipes, which are unlikely to affect breathing when inflated. )
Treatment: hold the child and sit in the steam-filled bathroom for 5 minutes. Moist air helps children to clear mucus from their lungs and relieve cough. When a child coughs at night, parents can open the bedroom window to let fresh air into the room and keep the child warm. Humid cold air helps to relieve the symptoms of airway inflation. If his cough gets worse or he has difficulty breathing, you should take him to the hospital at once. Children may need to take some antibiotics, but they need a doctor to decide anyway.
Parents should know:
Cough inhibitors, if children cough and can't sleep, inhibitors may help. Ask the doctor which inhibitor to choose. However, we should know that suppressing cough sometimes aggravates the illness or prolongs the illness time.
Expectorants: These drugs are very effective in resolving phlegm, but research shows that they are not very effective. Long-term practice has proved that water is a good expectorant.
Broad-spectrum cold medicine: Because the formula of this kind of medicine contains many ingredients, you must read the instructions carefully before giving it to your child. These drugs may have some side effects, such as insomnia (common in antihistamines) or allergies (common in decongestants).
Throat lozenge: Taking cough syrup can increase the secretion of saliva, thus lubricating the throat and relieving cough. But the doctor told me never to give throat lozenges to children under 4 years old. Because throat lozenges, like hard candy, are in danger of suffocation.
Medication: When giving medicine to children, be sure to use containers such as spoons or measuring cups to ensure the correct dosage.
Cough symptom 2: cough with phlegm, without asthma or shortness of breath, day and night.
Other symptoms: drowsiness, runny nose, tears and mild fever (usually not higher than 38.6 degrees Celsius).
Suspicion: common cold, virus infection of nose, sinus, throat and lung. Cough symptoms usually last for the whole cold process (about 7~ 10 days), sometimes longer (about half a month to 20 days), but the symptoms can be alleviated every day.
Treatment: Try to keep your child's nasal cavity clean. A stuffy nose or runny nose will aggravate cough symptoms. For babies or young children who can't blow their noses, parents can use normal saline nasal drops or ball-type nasal aspirators to help their children clean their nasal cavities. If your child's cough and stuffy nose persist for 10 days and still do not improve, you should take him to see a doctor. He may suffer from sinusitis (bacterial infection caused by a cold) or other diseases, such as asthma, allergies, pneumonia or lymphadenopathy.
Cough symptom 3: Severe and hoarse cough-up to 25 coughs at a time. Children will make a sharp roar when they inhale hard.
Other symptoms: I had cold symptoms for about a week before cough symptoms appeared, but I didn't have a fever. The baby's condition may be more serious, and sometimes even the nose will blister. It may also lead to symptoms such as convulsions, and respiratory arrest may occur when the child is tired.
Suspect: whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the throat, trachea and lungs. Children who have not been vaccinated with this vaccine are more likely to get sick. (Generally speaking, babies are vaccinated at 2 months, 4 months and 6 months, and then vaccinated again between 1 year and 1 year and a half, and between 4 and 6 years old. ......
How does the child cough for a long time and badly?
Baby coughs, what should I do?
First, a cough that needs quick treatment.
1. If the child suddenly coughs badly and has difficulty breathing, it may be that a foreign body has blocked the trachea. Children can easily swallow peanuts, pencil boxes, pills, buttons, coins, candy and so on. At this time, parents should send their children to the hospital immediately. If they can find out right away, just take emergency measures to take them out. It will be very dangerous if they don't find them.
2. The child has a high fever, coughing and wheezing, accompanied by dyspnea, and needs to be sent to the hospital immediately for rescue.
Babies are prone to bronchiolitis (a kind of pneumonia). At this time, the child's face is pale, often purple, or symptoms such as accelerated breathing, shoulder-back breathing, and depression in the lower part of the chest wall appear when inhaling, and should also be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.
Second, parents can solve their own cough.
1. Although the child has a cough and fever, he is still in good spirits, mostly with a cold or tonsillitis.
2. The child coughs and has a lot of phlegm, but he doesn't have a fever and is in good spirits.
3. Cough that occurs only in the morning or at night.
4. Slight cough when nervous or after exercise.
5. dry cough.
Parents don't have to worry too much about the above five kinds of coughs, and they can all be relieved and treated through diet therapy.
What should children do if they cough during the day and night?
Children don't cough for no reason, which is usually caused by a cold or a cold and fever. Parents only need to deal with it in time according to the method of "what should children do if they just catch a cold?" General pneumonia rarely occurs, so it is the key to avoid coughing in time when children catch a cold. And if the child coughs, it is the key to prevent the child from catching cold and not giving the child cold food.
Severe cough means coughing day and night, which means that the child has both cold and heat in his body. I used to treat wind-heat cough and wind-cold cough respectively. Later, I found that as long as I treated it according to the method of "what should I do if the child just caught a cold?" I used ginger syrup to drive away the cold, soaked the child's feet in sweat, and gave the child plenty of warm water to calm down the internal heat, which not only cured the cold quickly, but also made the cough almost impossible to attack, and the effect was equally good. In addition, let children drink more warm water. With drinking more water and urinating frequently, viruses and bacteria will be excreted in time, and naturally they will not stay in the respiratory tract, causing respiratory inflammation and coughing.
Cough is the * * * of inflammation, and doctors think of anti-inflammatory drugs, and drinking warm water is the cheapest anti-inflammatory drug, and it will not cause new harm to the body.
Therefore, parents should first touch their children's hands and feet when they find their children coughing. If your hands and feet are cold and your tongue is white, use two slices of ginger, half a spoonful of brown sugar and 3-4 cloves of garlic to boil water for your child to drink, 2-3 times a day. When their hands and feet start to get hot, they should drink a glass of warm water for half an hour. If their children feel bloating after drinking too much water, they should eat some salty side dishes. In the evening, parents should still give their children warm water to soak their feet until they sweat slightly, let them sleep more and recover their physical strength as soon as possible.
The next day, I also touched the child's little hands and feet. If my hands and feet are still cold, I will continue to follow the above instructions. If the child's hands and feet are already warm, drink 1 ~ 2 times of ginger and brown sugar water to consolidate it, and ensure that the child drinks more warm water and has a light diet. Give your child more broth and chicken soup, and don't eat fish, shrimp, yam and pepper. Gradually, the child will stop coughing. Or parents make scrambled eggs with sesame oil and Jiang Mo for their children before going to bed at night. The method is as follows: put a spoonful of sesame oil into the wok, put it in Jiang Mo after the oil is hot, soak it in the oil for a while, then pour in an egg and stir it evenly, and feed it to the children before they go to bed. Be careful not to burn them. Stick to eating for a few days, and the cough caused by the child's cold will be significantly improved.
If the child's hands and feet are not cold when coughing, but his face is red, his throat is sore, his urine is yellow, his smell is heavy, and his eyes are red, parents should give the child a lot of light salt water, which can not only eliminate the fire, but also relieve cough. At the same time, you can also boil pear water for your child to drink, moisten your lungs, let your child rest early, and have a light diet. Soon your child's illness will be under control.
What about the cough that only happens in the morning and at night?
Some children just cough every morning, and some children cough as soon as they sleep or wake up when they fall asleep at night. All these indicate that the child is cold and weak. As long as children are prevented from catching cold from all aspects, they should not be given cold food. ......
& GTWhat should I do if my 8-year-old child coughs?
Baby cough should pay attention to diet conditioning. Many parents have a headache for their baby's cough. They are worried about the side effects of giving their children cough medicine. It hurts to watch children cough without taking medicine. In fact, parents can get twice the result with half the effort if they pay attention to diet conditioning during their children's cough. First, avoid being cold, sour and spicy. Frozen and spicy food can hurt your throat and make your cough worse. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks or frozen drinks when coughing. It is best to heat the milk taken out of the refrigerator before drinking. Children in "allergic cough" should not drink carbonated drinks, so as not to induce cough. Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up phlegm, thus aggravating the condition and making it difficult to recover from cough. Second, do not eat peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate and so on. These foods contain more oil, which is easy to breed sputum after eating, making cough worse. Third, avoid fishy shrimps and crabs. Children with common cough get worse after eating fishy food, which is related to the fishy smell in respiratory tract and protein allergy to fish and shrimp. Children with allergies should avoid the above foods when coughing. Fourth, avoid supplements. Many parents give some supplements to children with weak constitution, but children should stop taking supplements when their cough is not cured, so as to avoid the evil of supplements and make it difficult to cure their cough. Five, less salt and less sugar. Eating too salty can easily induce cough or make it worse. When the baby coughs, the diet should be light, and it is not advisable to eat salty foods such as salted fish and bacon. As for sweets such as candy, eating more helps to clear away heat and resolve phlegm, but you should also eat less. 6. Don't eat or eat less fried food. When a child coughs, the gastrointestinal function is weak, and fried food will increase the burden on the stomach, help damp heat, breed sputum, and make cough difficult to heal. Seven, you should drink more water. Adequate water can not only meet the body's demand for water, but also help to dilute sputum, make sputum easy to cough up, increase urine volume and promote the excretion of harmful substances. Eight, the diet should be light. Give priority to fresh vegetables, eat soy products properly, reduce the amount of meat and vegetables, and eat a small amount of lean meat or eggs. Food is mainly cooking. Fruit can be given to pears, apples, lotus roots, oranges and so on. Quantity is not necessary. There is a folk custom of "stewed pear with rock sugar" to treat cough, but this eating method is not suitable for the first cough (new cough). Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the treatment of new cough should be based on dispersing, while rock sugar moistening the lungs may curb evil spirits.
What is the most effective way for children to cough?
How do parents deal with the baby's cough?
1, the head of Gao Baobao at night.
2. Drinking warm drinks can make your baby's phlegm thinner. It is best to let the baby drink warm boiled water or warm milk rice soup, or give the baby fresh juice. Juice should be apple juice and pear juice. It is not advisable to drink orange juice, grapefruit juice and other citrus juices.
3, steam cough method. If the baby coughs badly, let the baby inhale steam; Or sit in a steaming bathroom with your baby for 5 minutes. Moist air helps the baby to clear away mucus from the lungs and relieve cough.
4, hot water bottle cough method. Fill a hot water bottle with hot water of about 40℃, wrap it with a thin towel, and then apply it to the baby's back near the lungs, which can speed up the cold, especially for the cough symptoms in the early stage of the cold.