Most cough after a cold can be self-healing
Most children cough after a cold without active anti-virus, antibiotic treatment can be self-healing, but because the majority of children cough after a cold will be accompanied by phlegm symptoms, so that treatment principle is the main phlegm, antitussive supplement. As long as the cough does not affect sleep, eating, do not blindly take cough medicine, especially for infants and young children, so as to avoid sputum siltation, caused by atelectasis. Now the hospital where the vast majority of children with colds and other respiratory diseases, and showing a long course of the disease in children with easy to repeated and so on. Last week began a downward trend in the number of children, but after a cold cough and its related diseases such as asthma, rhinitis, and so began to increase. Experts point out that after a cold for about 80% of children will appear in varying degrees of cough symptoms, such cough and some may be self-healing, and some may be cold symptoms caused by other diseases, parents must not be blind to the child antibiotics and cough medicine should be carefully observed the state of the child cough, cough law, a cough lasting more than two weeks should go to the hospital to identify the cause symptomatic treatment.
Most cough after a cold can be self-healing
Cough phlegm expectoration is more important than the
Generally refers to post-cold cough flu symptoms (fever, headache, stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat, etc.) disappear after 2 to 3 weeks, persistent cough, unhealed, is to exclude chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases after the cough. Generally accepted that after a cold airway cough is due to bacterial or viral infection induced airway inflammation, leading to short-term increase of airway responsiveness and airway mucus secretion increased, so that the airway to the outside world a variety of incentives, such as cold air, smoke, abnormal odor and pathogens, including viruses and bacterial infections of the re-generated over-react. Cough after a cold is most common in children, because children’s lungs and respiratory tract development yet to be perfected to the virus sensitive to external stimuli than adults, more prone to cough, and easy to repeated attack.
Most children cough after a cold without active anti-virus, antibiotic treatment can be self-healing, but because the majority of children cough after a cold will be accompanied by phlegm symptoms, so that treatment principle is the main phlegm, antitussive supplement. As long as the cough does not affect sleep, eating, do not blindly take cough medicine, especially for infants and young children, so as to avoid sputum siltation, caused by atelectasis. Most children, like adults, do not spit, swallow directly discharged through the feces or vomit. Once a large number of sputum and bacteria accumulate in the respiratory tract, result in bacterial infection, secondary pneumonia. Therefore, parents phlegm in accordance with doctor’s advice to take drugs and carry out fogging treatment should also be regular window ventilation to keep indoor humidity, while taking some measures to help their children properly and scientifically expectoration.
The following are several ways it is more effective expectoration methods:
Beat back method in cough clearance, so that children or pick up the lateral side, parents and children pat his back. Burp method can not only promote the children within the lungs and bronchial sputum loose, drainage and discharge to large trachea, but also can promote the blood circulation of the heart and lungs are conducive to the absorption of bronchitis, the disease can be cured early.
Drinking Water Act cough in children, often varying degrees of dehydration, can exacerbate airway inflammation and secretions consistency, then drink an adequate amount of water, thick secretions can be diluted easily be coughed up.
Steam law will boiling water into the container, pick up the child, facing the rising steam to nose and mouth and breathing, can sputum thinning, which will help cough, but also reduce the trachea and bronchial mucosa of congestion and edema, reducing cough. However, this method can not be used with breathing children. In addition, the transport method has been applied to burns care to avoid accidents.
Allergy cough allergy-prone
Diagnosis and timely treatment can prevent asthma
Recently, allergic cough, asthma attacks in children increased significantly, after the common cold and flu cough is the main incentive. Allergic cough in many children prone to allergies cough problem, if not promptly diagnosed and standardize treatment, can develop into bronchial asthma. They often appear in the cough after a cold, the difference is that cough is caused by allergies, symptoms sometimes good and sometimes bad, usually in 2 to 3 months, recurrent difficult to cure. Such children generally not a fever or only low heat, there is a white foam sputum, like rubbing the eyes and nose, loving grasp scalp, sweating, restless sleep, love, like the twist with sleep, and many more mainly dry cough without asthma. Cough often occurs at night or early morning, in serious cases of sleep, use of antibiotics ineffective. Most children with cough-day last 1 month and repeatedly attack.
Allergic children are often misdiagnosed as chronic cough, bronchitis, pneumonia, or whooping cough, parents and the absence of experienced doctors are likely to make long-term use in children with antibiotic treatment, it can not be cured also delay treatment, and can cause long-term abuse of antibiotics due to band to side effects. Therefore, suffered from eczema, urticaria and other allergies children cough after a cold treatment should be timely, so as not to preclude the evolution of allergic asthma cough. In addition, for children suffering from asthma, severe coughing after a cold is likely to make acute asthma attack. Therefore, when a cold in asthmatic children not only to cure the common cold should also take measures to prevent asthma attacks, coughing and cold symptoms after active treatment and should have to carry emergency drugs, to prevent acute asthma attacks accidents.
Chronic cough can cause a variety of rhinopathy
Stuffy nose headache, mouth breathing should pay attention to
Children’s flu season is a year, will usher in a pediatric ENT treatment of disease peak, and after a cold-related cough is postnasal drip syndrome, sinusitis, these diseases will increase due to cold recurrence, manifested as recurrent seizures chronic cough, accompanied by nasal congestion, headache, runny nose and so on. Postnasal drip syndrome, children with chronic cough after a cold is one common cause, it is back after a cold back to stimulate the nasal and throat and respiratory tract caused by chronic cough, runny nose, stuffy nose, headache and other symptoms, children with frequent throat drops of influenza or pharyngeal foreign body sensation, cough, or early in the morning in the supine position increased. Postnasal drip syndrome, chronic cough not caused by patient’s universal attention, after a detailed diagnosis of the disease to be symptomatic treatment, most can quickly ease.
In addition, children are victimized every time a cold sinus mucosa, some children will be in remission after a cold sinusitis. Of inflammatory sinusitis or nasal mucus secretions flow down the throat and trachea, bronchus, can cause cough reflex, which aims to nose Ka Chu, this time the parents would be mistaken for “phlegm”, if prolonged unhealed sinusitis the long-term stimulation on the respiratory tract, may be secondary to chronic inflammation, resulting in bronchitis or cramps, precipitate cough and asthma; these diseases in turn, affect the changes in nasal blood vessels, causing stuffy nose sound heavy, sore throat embolism, but also increased the sinus inflammation. Suggests that parents should carefully observe whether the children cough after a cold accompanied by headaches and dizziness, stuffy nose, nasal itching, flow of water-like nose, mouth breathing and other symptoms, if these situations should promptly seek medical treatment in order to suffering from sinusitis is diagnosed.