Cough is the most common symptom of respiratory disease, the baby coughs, parents may think, the baby will not cough into pneumonia? Cough generally does not cough up pneumonia, on the contrary, the sputum coughed up can clear the bacteria of the respiratory tract, and a cough when the misunderstanding of pneumonia treatment not only let many people play a wrong injection, but also may bring drug safety risks.
Due to the anatomical characteristics of the respiratory system and immune characteristics of children, the baby is prone to cough. Before you find out what causes the baby to cough, parents should not be busy giving their children cough medicine and antibiotics, otherwise it is not only conducive to treatment, and sometimes counterproductive, resulting in some adverse consequences.
Common diseases that cause cough have the following, the pathogen is also a variety of, the following brief introduction.
Cough caused by upper respiratory tract infection
Symptoms: Generally, it is a monophonic dry cough, no phlegm, irritating cough, caused by throat congestion or itching, regardless of day and night, not accompanied by asthma or rapid breathing. The baby is mostly accompanied by nasal congestion or runny nose, sometimes accompanied by fever, body temperature does not exceed 38.5℃, accompanied by loss of appetite.
Cough tips: When the upper respiratory tract infection of children's nasal mucosa has been inflamed, such as inhaling dry air will make the nasal cavity more uncomfortable, and will aggravate the cough. Some babies because of nasal congestion open mouth breathing, will aggravate the cough.
① To keep the air in the room moist, you can use a humidifier, hang a wet towel, mop the floor with water or put a basin of water in the room to increase the air humidity.
② At the same time, give the baby more warm water, a small amount of water many times.
Because early upper respiratory tract infections are more viral infections, antibiotics are not recommended for babies.
A cough caused by bronchitis or pneumonia
Symptoms: Bronchitis or pneumonia is mostly easy to occur after the development of the disease when the baby has a cold, which may be caused by viral infection, or it may be caused by bacterial infection or mycoplasma infection. There is also pneumonia, especially if it has been sick for a long time, it may also be infected with some fungi or special drug-resistant bacteria, and it is necessary to go to the hospital for further examination, and self-medication is not recommended.
Cough more, and most of them have phlegm, generally cough more times at night than during the day, and the baby of a young age is prone to wheezing sounds in the throat. The most severe cough is usually two hours after the child has just lain down or just fallen asleep, or around 6 a.m.
Cough Relief Tips:
Children can not eat too sweet or salty food, otherwise it will aggravate the night cough.
It is recommended to go to the hospital to check the blood, determine whether the virus infection or bacterial infection, as appropriate, whether to use antibiotics while relieving cough and phlegm.
③ It is best to use atomized inhalation at the same time to promote the dilution and discharge of sputum.
Cough caused by laryngitis
Symptoms: hoarse voice, cough makes an "empty, empty" sound, similar to the bark of a puppy, textbooks called "barking cough." Some will be accompanied by pus sputum, but cough up less, most will be swallowed. Larger babies will complain of sore throat, and babies who do not express often show irritability and milk refusal.
Cough tips: In this case, parents can not oral cough medicine, because laryngitis often because the baby's throat is thin, rich blood vessels, inflamed hyperemia edema is easy to cause laryngeal edema caused by disease, serious will cause breathing difficulties, life-threatening. Therefore, it is recommended that doctors should be consulted in time, mild cases or early disease can guide oral medication, guide nebulized inhalation medication, and timely hospitalization is recommended for severe cases.
Allergic cough
Symptoms: continuous or recurrent severe cough, mostly paroxysmal attacks, more obvious in the morning, the baby's activity or crying cough aggravates, the baby sneezes and coughs when it encounters cold air, but little sputum. Coughing at night is more serious than during the day, coughing for a long time, usually lasting more than 1 month or even longer, with more pollen season.
Cough Relief Tips:
① Pay attention to usually try to avoid children cold.
② Wear a mask when the cold air is severe or during the pollen season.
(3) For babies with a family history of asthma and other allergic diseases, cough should be paid special attention, consult a doctor as early as possible, make a clear diagnosis, guide oral medication treatment and nebulizing inhalation medication, and prevent the development of asthma.
④ This cough can not be rushed to oral antibiotics, not only has no therapeutic effect, but may cause allergy to increase.
Inhalation of foreign objects causes coughing
Symptoms: If the child has no previous symptoms such as cough, runny nose, sneezing or fever, and suddenly appears violently choking, at the same time, breathing difficulties, and poor face, especially the younger child, it may be that some foreign body is put into the mouth when the adult does not pay attention to it, and accidentally stray into the throat or trachea.
Cough tips: Parents should encourage children to cough after inhaling foreign bodies, and do not pick at their mouths with their hands to prevent foreign bodies from digging deeper and deeper, so that the airway is completely blocked. If there is no cough, the child repeatedly coughs or wheezes, indicating that the foreign body has reached the respiratory tract, the child should be immediately sent to the hospital to diagnose and remove the foreign body in time.
A cough is just a symptom that indicates something is wrong. Do not blindly cough because of fear of pneumonia, to timely consultation, early treatment of the cause.
