How is infantile cough asthma treated?
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Winter is coming, the temperature is generally lower, but in life, many people are not very aware of this early symptoms, and the disease has been quite serious. Many children with weak resistance are more likely to catch a cold. If they don't receive timely treatment and control their diet, they are likely to have a very serious cough, which will seriously disturb their normal life. Next, I'll share how to treat children's cough and asthma?. Hope to help you.
How is infantile cough asthma treated?
First: asthma is one of the most common clinical symptoms of cough. It is one of the common causes of chronic cough in children, especially in preschool and school-age children. The clinical features are as follows: (1) cough lasts for more than 4 weeks, often occurs at night and (or) in the morning, cough aggravates after exercise and cold air, and there is no sign of infection or no response to antibiotic treatment for a long time( 2) Bronchodilator can relieve cough symptoms( 3) Pulmonary function test showed airway hyperresponsiveness( 4) A history of allergic diseases and positive allergen test can assist in the diagnosis. The treatment principle is the same as that of typical bronchial asthma.
Second: a variety of rhinitis, sinusitis, chronic pharyngitis, chronic tonsillitis, nasal polyps, adenoid hypertrophy and other upper airway diseases can cause chronic cough, previously diagnosed as postnasal drip (flow) syndrome, which means cough caused by nasal secretions flowing back to the pharynx through the postnasal orifice. The clinical features are as follows: (1) chronic cough with or without expectoration, especially in the morning or when the body position changes, often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, dry throat, foreign body sensation, repeated throat cleaning, and mucus adhesion on the posterior pharyngeal wall( 2) There may be tenderness in the paranasal sinus area, yellow and white secretions may flow out at the opening of the paranasal sinus, obvious hyperplasia of posterior pharyngeal wall follicles, cobblestone like, and sometimes mucus like attachment can be seen in the posterior pharyngeal wall. The key point of treatment is to treat upper airway lesions, cough symptoms can disappear.
Third: cough itself is a kind of protective reflex. When there is inflammation in the respiratory tract, increased secretion or foreign body, it is beneficial to the recovery of the body by coughing up the secretion. Blind antitussive is harmful and unhelpful. Children cough, most are caused by respiratory tract infection, the most common is a cold and bronchitis. Cough caused by cold and bronchitis, generally after 3 days to 1 week of treatment can be cured or self-healing.
matters needing attention
When the baby coughs suddenly due to the hot weather, it belongs to the summer heat. At this time, you can eat more towel gourd and wax gourd. When the baby has cough, yellow phlegm and yellow tongue coating, it belongs to phlegm heat type cough. At this time, you can use white radish to make soup or stir fry white radish shreds.