Typical symptoms of asthma

summary

My classmate's child is now four years old. His physical fitness is not very good and his immunity is poor. He is always more likely to catch a cold and cough than other children. Recently, the cough has lasted for a long time, but it's not good. It's a little better during the day, but it's very serious when I go to bed at night and get up in the morning. The cough is very severe, and I feel very sad. This cough has been for some time, and I've taken some anti-inflammatory and antitussive drugs, but it's not good. Later, the doctor suggested to have a lung function test, only to find that it's cough asthma.

Typical symptoms of asthma

Cough is one of the most common symptoms of children. With the arrival of winter, the temperature drops suddenly, coupled with haze weather, cough is very common. Children's respiratory tract infection can easily cause cough, such as cough after a cold, bronchitis and pneumonia. However, one kind of cough is asthma, which doctors call cough variant asthma, which is also a common cause of children's cough.

Next, let's talk about the symptoms of cough asthma. The symptoms of this disease are relatively single, mainly cough. Therefore, the misdiagnosis rate of this disease is relatively high, because its clinical characteristics are lack of specificity. This disease is mainly caused by long-term stubborn dry cough, which is often induced by cold air (possibly drinking cold drinks, eating ice-cream or temperature drop), contact with allergens, exercise or respiratory tract infection, and is more aggravated at night or early in the morning.

There are various causes of cough asthma. In addition to the subjective factors such as the patient's own genetic quality, immune state and mental state, environmental factors such as allergens, virus infection, sports and climate are also important causes of cough asthma. For repeated attacks of chronic cough (more than a month) we should pay attention to, this may be cough asthma, to go to the hospital in time for treatment.

matters needing attention

Early long-term cough is not cured, we must go to the hospital for examination in time, do not take it seriously or avoid medical treatment. Usually diet can pay attention to eat with some of the beneficial ingredients for cough asthma. The most important thing is to enhance immunity and exercise more.