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There are many children who have been sick recently. One third of the mothers in the company have asked for leave. One child has pneumonia and three children have fever. From a baby over 1 year old to an 8-year-old child, they are not spared.
The most troublesome thing is that he coughs, and it has been difficult to get better over and over again. Looking at the child's little face that was red, it was so uncomfortable.
I still remember that when Mi Li was a child, she often couldn't stop coughing, and she couldn't help but she couldn't help but she wanted to suffer for her child.
I know you may be experiencing these things now. There are many troubles about coughing, and it will not be cured after taking medicine. What should I do if I am afraid of suddenly turning into pneumonia? Should I treat atomization?
So, today I urgently rushed out an article about coughing. The questions you want to know are basically here, everyone must read them carefully.
Acute bronchitis
First of all, this symptom is similar to colds and asthma and is prone to occur in babies. The most common one is acute bronchiolititis.
"Bronchiolitis" is a disease infected by respiratory fusion virus.
symptoms of common cold , such as: cough, runny nose, wheezing, chest and intercostal contraction, fever for 2-3 days, etc., especially for children under two years old, which is more common when the seasons change.
However, unlike colds, bronchiolithritis belongs to lower respiratory tract infection .
Because babies under 2 years old have very thin bronchials, when the virus invades the respiratory tract, in addition to causing the baby to have a high fever, there will be a lot of phlegm caused by inflammation in the respiratory tract.
These phlegm can easily get stuck in the baby's extremely thin bronchi, causing the baby to have wheezing sounds and severe coughing when breathing, and even vomiting when coughing is severe.
baby's appetite will also become worse, and the entire disease will last for at least 2 weeks before it will slowly improve . It is also caused by viruses, so the sputum is sticky and even has color, so don’t worry too much.
Viral infection bronchiolitis
Most children have viral infection . Also, because the tracheal structure of infants and young children is too small and the development is too immature, it is not because of too much phlegm or because of too severe inflammation, so no medicine to take is effective .
Many studies have confirmed that it is useless to take phlegm-relieving medicines in infants and young children, cough medicines are useless, tracheal dilators are useless, antihistamines are useless, and steroids are also useless, and no medicine is useless.
Whether it is infusion or sleeping oxygen account, it can only "help children through the most uncomfortable days" and cannot shorten the course of the disease. will still be recovered slowly after two weeks.
Bacterial infection bronchiortitis
Bacterial infection bronchiortitis symptoms are more serious than viral bronchiortitis. Children will feel sick and will have repeated high fevers of , and the sputum may become less and more. Bacterial bronchiopathy can easily evolve into pneumonia and requires antibiotic treatment.
No matter what the cough is caused by, if the child has the following symptoms, be sure to see a doctor in in time.
1. Coughing and breathing may cause breathing noises or feeling difficult.
2. Coughing blood or yellow-green thick phlegm lasts for two days.
3. When other cold symptoms are relieved, they still have phlegm cough for 7 to 14 days.
4. After appropriate fever reduction treatment, the fever continues to exceed 38.5 degrees.
5. There is obvious chest pain when coughing.
6. Cough for more than four weeks.
At the same time, you must do a good job in home care .
Since bronchiolititis is transmitted through droplets, it is recommended that parents let their babies enter and exit public places with less in . If you want to go to public places, it is best to let your babies wear a mask and wash their hands more . In terms of home environment, they should keep the air circulating in .
replenish more water . If you have poor appetite, you can small amounts of to let your baby replenish milk. Babies who have eaten solid food should eat to avoid too icy, too sweet and irritating foods, and mild foods are the best.
Why don’t the coughs that alternate seasons are cured?
Many parents often complain that their children's coughs are always not cured. The smokers in the family are the culprit for the long-term coughing of their children!
Even if you don’t smoke in front of the child or in the house, the third hand smoke remaining on the body, hair, and indoors will still make the child cough and not get better for a long time!
In addition, coughing for colds or bronchiolititis will gradually improve in about 2 weeks. If the coughing phenomenon does not slow down, you should observe whether it is related to allergies.
About one in every 10 children in China has chronic allergic cough. According to clinical data, children have repeated coughs due to allergies, with the highest proportion of asthma caused by . In addition to the inheritance of congenital constitution, exposure to allergens in acquired environments can also induce asthma attacks. For example, PM2.5 in the air, dust, second-hand smoke damage, climate, and environmental humidity.
good periods are often at the beginning of the year, the end of the year when the weather gets colder, or when the seasons change.
Some doctors will also use the severity of acute bronchiolititis before the age of two to predict whether the child has asthma in the future.
The longer the course of is, the more violent the wheezing sounds, the closer the age is to two years old, and the clearer the family history, the more likely you will suffer from asthma in the future.
For children with allergic asthma, try to avoid allergen . First of all, pay attention to the environment and diet , such as a balanced diet, eating more vegetables and fruits, and pay more attention to doing health care in daily life to reduce physical discomfort caused by allergies.
What should I do if my child is frequently infected in kindergarten?
Almost all parents have this experience: after the child is sent to kindergarten, they catch colds, gastroenteritis, and otitis media one after another. The originally healthy children start to go to the hospital often.
At the same time, there will be about three different viruses in the kindergarten. Therefore, even if the child avoids the first type, he cannot avoid the second type. If the second type is avoided, he may be the third type. It is almost impossible for children to enter the kindergarten in to escape unscathed and not get sick at all.
But you don’t have to worry too much. The human immune system is not close to mature until the age of six, so we often find that the number of children seeing a doctor after going to primary school is significantly reduced.
Since sending your child to kindergarten is an inevitable choice, what are the ways to help your child prevent the occurrence of infection?
1. Children’s immunity requires nutritional supplements, so you should give your child a balanced diet of .
Among them, vitamins C, D and other supplements are particularly important: brown rice, whole wheat bread, dark vegetables, dark fruits, these foods rich in vitamins and probiotics must be consumed every day.
2. Don’t stay indoors all day, go outdoors to bask in the sun for more , and bake at least 20-30 minutes of sunshine every day, so that the sun can activate the vitamin D on the skin.
3. During the special epidemic period, adults should also teach children to wash their hands frequently to avoid infection.
4. You should also remind your children not to put their hands in their mouths, rub their eyes, pick their noses, etc. so that the virus will not have the chance to touch the respiratory mucosa and invade the body.
If the child is still infected, be sure to let the child rest at home and do not go to school again. On the one hand, it can prevent the virus from spreading to other students. On the other hand, it is also a reason to rest and drink water so that the immune system can clean the virus as soon as possible.
Will cough turn into pneumonia?
Many parents are worried that their children's cough will become more and more violent, and they will cough into pneumonia.So, will a child cough into pneumonia if he keeps coughing?
Mi Li Mom is here to give you a simple test: Which of the following options is correct? (Multiple choice)
A. If you don’t cough quickly, you will cough into pneumonia
B. You won’t cough into pneumonia because you keep coughing. If your lungs are in bad condition or have other problems, you will get more and more severe the more you cough
C. If you cough, you need to drink cough medicine. The most important thing is not to cough
D. Taking cough medicine excessively may cover up the symptoms, resulting in delayed treatment and worsening of the condition
0 Publish the answer! The correct answer is that B is detailed explanation of D
:
A. Whether you will get pneumonia is related to personal resistance, pathogenic strength, and physical condition (such as fatigue, nutritional status, etc.), and has little to do with whether you take cough-relieving medicine.
B. Cough is a symptom, mainly because of irritation, including inflammation of the tracheal lungs, reflux of the nasal water, gastroesophageal reflux, etc., which will stimulate cough. Therefore, the irritation becomes stronger and the cough becomes serious.
C., D. Just taking medicine to suppress the symptoms may ignore the real cause of coughing. Delaying treatment is much more important than always taking cough-relieving medicines.
Mi Li Mom believes that many parents are still very concerned, so how to avoid the baby's cold and pneumonia?
Colds and pneumonia often have the same symptoms , such as coughing and runny nose. Sometimes cold viruses enter the trachea and lungs, irritating the trachea and causing pneumonia.
especially influenza virus infection, which often leads to severe pneumonia. Therefore, before the high incidence of influenza season, allowing children over to receive influenza virus vaccine injection injected with can effectively reduce the occurrence of pneumonia in children.
Bacterial pneumonia can receive pneumococcal vaccine preventive injection , especially for children with asthma, allergies and poor resistance. Prevention should be taken to ensure the health of children.
Is the atomization treatment containing hormones safe?
Whether for mild, moderate or severe asthma, the efficacy of steroids is recognized, because it can reduce swelling and inflammation of the vocal cords and tracheal mucosa, and can improve clinical symptoms within 2 to 6 hours after taking the medication.
But because there are rumors that the side effects of steroid drugs may make children less taller, parents are often very resistant to steroids and even stop the medication on their own.
In fact, steroid sprays are often used for children with asthma. Because they can directly act on the target organs, they can achieve the effect with a smaller drug content. will not cause side effects or sequelae . Parents stopping the medication by themselves will affect the treatment of the sick children, making it more difficult to control the condition .
Finally, I will give you a key point:
When the autumn and winter seasons are changed, the most common cause of children's cough is bronchiopathy , which is mostly caused by viral infection. It will slowly recover from around 42 weeks.
If the cough lasts for more than 3 weeks, parents should be alerted that it may be chronic cough , the most common causes are tracheal allergy and asthma; a few possible special infectious diseases include: whooping cough, tuberculosis, plasminos, etc., which may cause chronic cough; in addition, gastroesophageal reflux can also cause chronic cough. Parents must take their children to the hospital to find out the cause of the disease.
When your child is still building his own immune system, balanced nutrition, fixed outdoor exercise every day, adequate sleep, and frequent hand washing are all good ways to help your child improve immunity .
In addition, don’t smoke, light fragrance, mosquito coils or essential oils at home, and start to create a home environment with less dust mites, less mold and less air pollution as soon as possible, which can help prevent the occurrence of allergic constitution.
Don’t underestimate the cough. About one-third of babies with severe bronchioles will suffer from asthma, which is not low.
For the sake of the health of the child's respiratory tract, parents should prepare in advance and not be lucky. Prevention is better than treatment, and health is the best gift parents can give their children.
References
- https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/childs-cough.html
- https://www.parents.com/health/cough/the-never-ending-chronic-cough/
- https://www.webmd.com/children/treating-coughs#1
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