When a child is sick, he will get angry with them. Children in school cough, children in kindergarten cough, boys cough, and girls also cough...
Children, parents, and doctors are always entangled with cough.
Doctor Chen, director of the pediatrics department of Beijing New Century Women's Hospital, pointed out in an interview with reporters from China Women's Daily and China Women's Network:
Some children cough endlessly when they get sick, which is directly related to the wrong practices in some families. In fact, if the concept is correct and the proper response, many coughs can be completely avoided.
If you don’t believe it, compare the wrong practices in the following scenarios to see how many of them have you won?
1. When it is cold, you are reluctant to let your children go outdoors to exercise.
In many adults’ concepts, the way to adapt to seasonal changes is to avoid it. When it gets cold, I don’t go out even if I don’t go out any more, because I’m always afraid that the children will be frozen.
"It's cold outside and stay in and out" is the catchphrase of parents in winter. Go out and get in the car, get out and enter the house, where do you get outdoor activities? Raising children is basically the same as growing flowers in a greenhouse.
2. When the cough is cured, it will cause trouble.
Now, in the concepts of more and more parents, allowing children to eat and wear warmth can only be regarded as the most basic requirement. It’s like if you don’t take your children around the world to play or eat and drink all over the world, you’ll never take your children to see the world.
Winter holidays and National Day, seize the opportunity of the short holiday to take your children out for trouble.
is actually OK to go out to play, but the child has to be very capable. If the child gets sick after tossing, or coughs after tossing, then he has to be less trouble.
3. I rush to stop the medicine before the cough is cured.
Parents always look for experts to see with their children who have cough and asthma. These children who have cough and asthma include allergic cough and and sore tracheitis.
However, the mental journey of parents of children with is often as follows:
The child’s cough attack - atomization treatment - the cough is relieved quickly - worrying about the side effects of treatment, and it quickly stopped - it started coughing and asthma again after 2 to 3 days of stopping - seek medical treatment again, and the cycle is repeated.
When the cause is unknown, and the child has been coughing for 2 to 3 weeks, he has taken antibiotics and medicines, and has done atomization, but the cough is very slow.
In these cases, parents must work hard to find the potential reasons, so let us tell us what the situations are.
What are the types of coughs in children?
Type 1: "Dog barking" cough
"Dog barking" cough means that the child's cough sounds like a puppy, and it is particularly serious in the middle of the night. This is the symptom of acute laryngitis .
According to pediatricians,
Acute laryngitis refers to diffuse inflammation of the laryngeal mucosa and is one of the acute diseases in children. Acute laryngitis is more common in children between 6 months and 3 years old. Most of them are caused by viral infection. It has an acute onset and develops rapidly, and is more likely to occur in winter and spring.
Tangtang had this situation once when he was young:
Only had a mild cough the first day, and he was in good spirits at night. He played until very late before going to bed. Unexpectedly, he suddenly coughed violently in the middle of the night and had difficulty breathing. This scared us and quickly took us to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed Tangtang with acute laryngitis.
Mild laryngitis Children with throat will feel itchy, foreign body sensation, burning or mild sore throat, hoarseness, and a dog-like cough.
The patient has a severe illness. The condition develops rapidly to laryngeal obstruction and his throat worsens. When inhaling, you can hear throat rumbling, difficulty breathing, and bruised or pale lips. If is further aggravated, circulatory and respiratory failure will occur and death.
As a disease that can cause death in young children, parents must pay attention to it.
Parents’ observation of their children’s condition is very important. If the child’s cough sounds like a dog barking, parents should think about the possibility of acute laryngitis in time and take the child to the hospital for treatment in time.
Type 2: Crying like a chicken
If the child coughs like a chicken chubby, it may be a chronic cough in the child. cough , which has a cough for more than 4 weeks, is a specific cough if the cause can be found.
For example, whooping cough is a respiratory infectious disease. The initial symptoms of are somewhat similar to common cold . They gradually appear spastic cough, followed by rooster crowing sounds, and in severe cases, accompanied by airway spasms, suffocation, and even suffocation . Many parents cannot distinguish clearly and easily delay their children's treatment.
At the beginning of this year, Christ the King Elementary School in Deception Bay, northern Brisbane, was a Catholic primary school. There was a case of whooping cough at the beginning of the year, but the school did not pay enough attention to it at that time.
The result suddenly becomes uncontrollable! Through the air, one passes two, two passes three...
In just two weeks, 18 students were infected one after another.
Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial infectious disease, although it was just like the common cold at the beginning, and occasionally coughed a few times. But after a few weeks, the cough will become more and more serious, even coughing to vomit, breaking ribs, and having a serious crisis.
Zhang Huiyu, director of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine of Hebei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital and Children's Hospital, reminds parents in the online live broadcast of the "Good Doctors of the People" client:
Pertussis is more common in winter and spring. Patients are usually under five years old, and the incubation period is generally about one week to ten days.
Director Zhang also reminded parents to pay attention:
There is another type of chronic cough that cannot be found, and it lasts for more than 4 weeks. Coughs like need to seek medical attention in time , and the clinician will identify them and then prescribe the right medicine.
Type 3: Wheezing cough
Parents should be alert to wheezing cough. According to the Chinese Journal of Medical Sciences:
When the child does not heal for a long time, Wheezing cough may evolve into asthma.
Whispering cough may be caused by a cold or an allergic condition. Some dust, animal hair, and pollen may stimulate the child's respiratory tract, causing the child to go from excessive coughing to asthma.
When the child has a wheezing cough, it is best for parents to take their children to the hospital for a chest X-ray to check whether there is pneumonia. If the child has a wheezing cough caused by allergies, he or she should be isolated from allergens.
Type 4: Wet cough
Pediatric experts say that in daily life, it is more common for children to cough with phlegm, that is, wet cough, which is common for post-infection cough, pneumonia, chronic pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, etc.
and 's primary task in treating damp cough is to help children resolve phlegm and relieve phlegm in a timely manner.
Parents need to master some common sense of cough care, so that their children can develop good routines, strengthen physical exercise, and enhance their disease resistance from the root. At the same time, it is recommended that children drink more water in autumn and try to be lighter in terms of diet.
Type 5: Dry cough
Dry cough, as the name suggests, is a cough without sputum.
Research by medical experts from Central South University:
Dry cough may be caused by four reasons: cold, cold air irritation, allergic cough, and pharyngitis.
Many people think that oranges are cough-relieving and phlegm-relieving, so children with coughs are asked to eat more oranges. In fact, it is wrong. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and relieving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and phlegm. It is impossible for ordinary children to not eat orange meat but only orange peel.
How to deal with children's cough
After understanding of several types of children's cough, let's learn how to deal with children's cough?
According to research at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, there are mainly the following methods:
Method 1: Distinguish cough
We should analyze what type of cough the child belongs to based on the length, sound, and medical history of the child’s cough. Parents are reminded not to wait until the child has coughed for 3 or 4 weeks before taking the child to the hospital. When coughing occurs, it is recommended to take the child to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.
In fact, cough is closely related to many diseases.
Common ones such as colds, bronchitis, pharyngitis, and severe ones such as allergies, pneumonia, asthma and even lung cancer may have symptoms of coughing. Even some of the early symptoms of sepsis are coughing.
Last year, there was a 5-year-old boy in Australia. At first, he had a little cough while playing. The parents thought the child had a cold, so it would be fine if he took some medicine.
The result was that on the third day, the child not only did not heal, but also began to have a fever and vomit. At this time, the parents still thought that this was just a serious cold.
On the fourth day, although the child's condition improved slightly, he began to have rashes on his body again. Until the fifth day, the child was pale and his condition worsened, and he had cardiac arrest in the ambulance.
Finally, the doctor diagnosed the child with sepsis. Although he tried his best to rescue him, he still did not pull the child back from the god of death. Who would have thought that a small cough would completely tear this small family apart.
According to the "Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Children's Cough in China", it is estimated that
About 16 million people worldwide are infected with whooping cough every year, and not only children, but people of all ages are likely to be infected, including adults!
So parents must pay attention! Don’t think that coughing is a trivial matter. Take your child to the hospital for examination in time so that you can feel at ease after being diagnosed by the doctor.
Method 2: Pay attention to diet and daily habits
Parents should let their children drink more water, keep warm, avoid colds, irritating the respiratory tract and causing coughs or aggravating coughs. In addition, we should help children develop the good habit of washing hands frequently and hygienic to improve their immunity as much as possible.
For children with sinusitis, a nasal scrubber and humidifier should be prepared at home, which can greatly relieve children's cough.
Do not let children with cough eat sweets or greasy or spicy foods in their diet.
If the child coughs for several days and it is difficult to fall asleep at night, you can buy a few white radishes, cut half of the radish into slices every night, boil them in clean water, and filter out the water with a teacup or small bowl after the radish is cooked. After it is cool, the cough will be reduced; if you drink it for a few days, the cough will be cured.
In addition, pears can moisten the lungs and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire. The interferon produced by the double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in the mushrooms in the human body can eliminate viruses in the body.
The diet therapy of "stewed with pear juice on the mushrooms" prevents and treats dry coughs in autumn and winter, eliminates infection with , and generally results will be achieved after taking two or three days.
Method 3: Relieve cough
When a child coughs violently, it is best to pick up the child to make the upper body at a 45-degree angle. At the same time, pat the back with your hands to relax the secretions adhered to the trachea, which is conducive to coughing.
If the child coughs badly at night, you can lift the pillow slightly to reduce the irritation of the child's gastroesophageal reflux to the throat.
Method 4: Pay attention to
When you go out, make your children wear masks to prevent pollutants on haze days, and it can also effectively keep warm and prevent cool air from inhaling.
Haze can directly enter and adhere to the human respiratory tract and alveoli, causing symptoms such as acute rhinitis and acute bronchitis, and also induce pneumonia and lung cancer. Lung diseases are the number one "killer" for children under 5 years old in the world.
According to the statistics of " Clinical Pediatric Journal ", about 62,000 children die of pneumonia in my country every year.
Parents must protect their children from haze and take protective measures!
The child’s cough has not been cured. Parents feel the most distressed. The eagerness to get better quickly is understandable, but it is necessary to pay attention to taking the child to seek medical treatment as soon as possible and prescribe the right medicine to avoid worsening the condition.
I am CC Jiang, my son Tangtang has just been in the first year of high school, and my daughter Yuanyuan is about to go to junior high school. In order for the two children to grow up healthily and happily, I have been working hard to learn parenting knowledge since they were born.
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