Baby Cough easy to switch to pneumonia

Viral cold is the chief culprit in cold and dry cough, no snow, fog caused by air pollution, a serious respiratory tract to stimulate the children. Children’s Hospital in Beijing, winter day, after the hospital received more than 5,000 children need treatment, of which Liu Qicheng is the upper respiratory tract infection. Symptoms mostly coughing, runny nose, stuffy nose and so on. Some kids lungs with sputum, but not cough up their own, in the lungs have piled up to form a sticky sputum. A long time to make the lung texture thickened to form a lower respiratory tract infections, usually bronchitis, severe pneumonia on the turn into. At this point, viral infection of the merger into a bacterial infection, the child’s symptoms are fever, increased white blood cells. If the child cough lasting a week, medication is not effective, would need to go to the hospital X-ray inspection. But do not often with children in the hospital. Doctors said the child was sick, the most taboo thing every day in the hospital, that would lead to cross infection.

Do not give children antibiotics indiscriminately that many parents see their children cough, cold, and my heart is particularly anxious, anxious to child’s illness was sudden enough. So to be able to find the best remedies to children to eat, including antibiotics. Antibiotics have gone up the characteristics of the child ate only a little cold top of antibiotics produced antibodies. When he was again suffering from a cold cough, nothing so that the antibiotics did not. In addition, parents must follow the doctor’s advice to the children adhere to medication, because each is a drug effect will take some time. However, parents are anxious always hoped that cure diseases, to feed their children a look at not, they hastened to change the other. Doctors said such a frequent method of dressing is very undesirable.

Do not give their children adult medicines to eat with the family medicine chest of many families, there was some cold, cough and other commonly used drugs, and some parents can not find appropriate child cough medicine, would give the children to eat a small amount of adult cough medicine . However, some adults, antitussives things tend to calm the central nervous system contains components are not suitable for children. In addition, adult children of drug adverse reactions have not been testing, children’s after taking any resulting side effects, in terms of all the children will be lifelong impact. Therefore, children should eat children cough-specific antitussives.

In addition to regular medication, the pediatrician suggested that when a child cough, parents should give their children to drink water, eat fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, such as tomato, cucumber, citrus, oranges and so on. Shao-Chi Juzi kids, meat and other food Sheng Tan. Children’s cough remedies are rock candy pear water, three soup (radish root, parsley root, cabbage, boiled with the root).