Cough is a common and frequently-occurring disease in winter. With the sudden drop of temperature, the sound of "cough and cough" can be heard everywhere. Parents are already allergic to their children's cough. Children are the pride of adults. It is parents who cough on their children and correct their hearts. However, many parents still have many misunderstandings about children's cough, which often affects their treatment.
Children's cough is directly related to nasal congestion and runny nose. When children cough, they often have symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose, but parents often pay more attention to the symptoms of cough. As everyone knows, nasal congestion and runny nose are also the accompanying symptoms of cough in children with exterior syndrome. If the exterior syndrome is puzzled, the interior syndrome will not be removed, and the exterior syndrome will not be eliminated, and the cough will not be cured.
When children cough, they should use anti-inflammatory drugs, which is a big misunderstanding. Many parents think that children's cough is an inflammation of the respiratory tract, so they should use anti-inflammatory drugs, but it is not. Many children's coughs are caused by non-bacterial infections, such as allergies, foreign body irritation and climate change. These coughs should not be treated with antibiotics.
Cough in children is very common, and it will get better after coughing for a while. This is also wrong. Cough is a common symptom in children. However, many coughs are signs of certain diseases, especially when children's respiratory system is immature, and there is no way to cough up sputum effectively when there is sputum. Keeping sputum in the respiratory tract not only aggravates inflammation and cough, but also easily spreads germs to other parts of the lungs to aggravate the condition or cause complications.
Cough itself will not develop into asthma, but if you cough for a long time, you should be alert that it may be an early symptom of asthma or cough variant asthma.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a summary of thousands of years' experience in the struggle against diseases in harsh living environment. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children's cough is mostly caused by cold, with symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose, anhidrosis (or sweating) cough, which begins to manifest as exterior syndrome of the sun, and dispersing lung qi and dispelling cold is the first priority for treatment.
For children with infantile yin and yang, the treatment should be light in dispersing lung qi. For wind-cold exterior syndrome, San 'ao Decoction (Ephedra, Almond and Glycyrrhiza) is commonly used, and the dosage should be light, especially Ephedra, which will damage lung qi.
If wind-cold is accompanied by internal heat, heat-clearing drugs such as mulberry bark and scutellaria root should not be overdosed, so as not to affect Mahuang Xinwenxuan powder.
If the dialectic is not accurate, the symptom is dry cough. Treating cough due to wind-cold with cool and moist drugs will easily keep the cold in the body and cause chronic cough.
Children cough with a cold, with nasal congestion, runny nose, sweating, cough and expectoration, and treated with Guizhi Thickening Puxingzi Decoction (Guizhi, Paeonia lactiflora, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Ginger, Jujube, Magnolia Officinalis and Almond).
Cough is incurable, pathogen enters shaoyang, with reddish lips and tongue, dry mouth and red throat, and poor appetite. Xiaochaihu Decoction (Bupleurum, Scutellaria, Pinellia, Glycyrrhiza, Codonopsis pilosula, Ginger and Jujube) is used to treat it.
The above are common types of children's cough, and the prescriptions should not be imitated blindly, and the treatment needs the guidance of professionals!