Why do children cough? Children's cough is a protective reaction. So, some think that the cough is a good thing, and no need of cough treatment. It is not true, for it maybe a persistent cough. Then the cough will not have the protective effect. If a child has severe coughing, he or she will suffer the loss of sleep and eating.
Cough treatment is not simply the use of cough medicine. First, analyze the cough primary factors. Etiology against treatment, we will receive good results.
It may be caused by various viruses, bacteria and other micro-organisms infection, or caused by respiratory infections. If the infection is confined to the cricoid cartilage above (pharynx above), it is the upper respiratory infection; if the infection occurs below throat, it is lower respiratory infections.
Cough caused by the disease anatomical location, top-down order of respiratory tract : the amount of sinusitis, sinusitis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, bronchiolitis and pneumonia. There are whooping cough syndrome, cold, flu, upper respiratory, allergic cough, asthma, cardiac cough, etc. Also, coughs can be divided into types of peripheral cough, etc. According to Chinese medicine theory, coughs can be divided into humid cough, cold breath cough, fever cough, a cold or cough etc.
In light of these diseases, cough treatment is an adjuvant treatment.
Allergic cough
If not timely diagnosed and treated, approximately 42.9% of children with asthma symptoms can arise.
How to identify children with allergic coughing? Allergic cough can occur at any age children, coughing recurrent or persistent for more than one month. The incidence is not limited to winter. Most of the children whose cough as irritating cough, often have a family or personal history of allergy. Most children have the history of it when they were infant babies with eczema and allergic rhinitis.
How to treat allergic cough?
Generally speaking, coughing symptoms may disappear by taking Salbutamol3 Ketotifen phenol and more effective drugs. Some patients require continuous medication after a fortnight to a month to see cough disappeared. Mis-diagnosis rate as high as 95%. Because there are many children with chronic or recurrent cough to be treated as upper respiratory infections or bronchitis. The large-scale use of antibiotics and cough medicine, not only can delay the disease, but also increase the resistance to antibiotics.
