What should I do if my child keeps coughing? How can I stop my child's cough quickly?

Children usually don't know how to take care of themselves, so many of them are prone to illness. At this time, parents should take timely treatment measures to prevent the child's condition from getting worse. So what should I do if my child keeps coughing? How can I stop my child's cough quickly?

Children with coughs usually need to undergo laboratory tests and go to the respiratory department for examination to find out the cause of the cough and treat it. It is abnormal for children to keep coughing, because this may be due to lung infection or bronchial foreign bodies. If the child keeps coughing, nebulization treatment can be chosen so that the drug can act deep in the respiratory tract, which is good for the recovery of the disease. In severe cases, it is necessary to combine it with intravenous drip treatment. If it is an allergic cough, anti-allergic cough suppressant treatment can be used. If it is caused by a respiratory tract infection, anti-inflammatory cough suppressants should be used. Do not inhale irritating air during the recovery period. If the cough is caused by infectious factors, appropriate drugs should be selected for treatment. For example, if it is caused by mycoplasma or chlamydia infection, macrolide antibiotics can be selected, such as azithromycin, erythromycin, etc. If it is a bacterial infection, cephalosporin antibiotics can be selected to control it.

If the baby has a severe cough, first take the child to the hospital for nebulization inhalation treatment to relieve the child's severe cough symptoms and make the child feel comfortable. You can nebulize and inhale budesonide and terbutaline, two drugs. It needs to be inhaled twice a day, and the specific dosage needs to be used under the guidance of the doctor according to the child's weight. In addition, when coughing, there are generally respiratory symptoms, and the child needs to be taken to the hospital for a blood test to see if there is an increase in white blood cells. If there is an increase in white blood cells, only antibiotics need to be taken for treatment. If there is no allergy to cephalosporin, cefixime can be taken. If the cough symptoms are not relieved or aggravated after taking the medicine, you need to go to the hospital for a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia. If there is pneumonia, you need to be hospitalized as soon as possible and do not delay the condition.

There are two conditions for coughing and expectoration: the first is the dilution of sputum; the second is the promotion of sputum movement. Therefore, these two conditions should be created for the baby. The first condition is to create a humidified environment for the baby to moisten the baby's airway, so that the sputum becomes thinner and easier to discharge. If conditions permit, you can use saline nebulization, or let the baby stay in a steam-filled bathroom for about 15 minutes. The second condition is that the parent pats the baby's back, using the hollow palm to vibrate the airway, loosen the sputum, and discharge the sputum when the baby coughs. The child takes a seat, and the parent pats the back with an empty palm, gently tapping from bottom to top. Each pat on the back lasts about 5-10 minutes, and can be patted 2-3 times a day, which is conducive to patting out the sputum.

Coughing is a symptom, not a disease, and many diseases can cause coughing. There are four main reasons why children often cough: 1. Cough variant asthma; 2. Upper airway cough syndrome; 3. Gastroesophageal reflux; 4. Cough after infection, among which 1 and 2 are the most common. The so-called cough variant asthma often has coughing in the middle of the night as the only symptom, but it is essentially asthma, and generally requires treatment with nebulizer inhalation or oral Singulair. Upper airway cough syndrome is mainly caused by diseases of the nasopharynx, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis. You should see an otolaryngologist, and treating rhinitis can control the cough.