What causes coughing in the first half of the night?

Many people do not cough during the day, but they cough constantly at night, which seriously affects the quality of sleep. Poor sleep will affect the work and life of the next day. If it is a short cough, it may not affect our health. Coughing at night is a cough that lasts for a longer time. It is best for everyone to pay attention to it and go to a regular hospital for examination in time. It is very likely that the cough is caused by a disease in the body.

There are many reasons for coughing in the middle of the night. The first is caused by allergies. Because when people are asleep, the body's defense against the outside world will be relatively reduced. At this time, allergens irritating the respiratory tract will cause coughing caused by allergies. This condition should be treated early to avoid allergic asthma.

Coughing caused by cold also occurs frequently. Many people have the habit of kicking off their quilts when they sleep at night. When they are in deep sleep, it is difficult for them to feel that they have caught a cold. The first thing that is stimulated when they catch a cold is the respiratory tract, which causes coughing and other phenomena.

Another possibility is bacterial or viral infection. Mycoplasma infection is more common. These symptoms will worsen at night, especially for people who sleep in a lying position, the cough will be particularly severe.

How to treat coughing in the middle of the night? First find out the cause. You can go to the hospital for a routine blood test to determine the root cause of your cough, and then symptomatic treatment can cure the disease.

You can go to the hospital for some nebulization treatment, which can improve the resistance of the upper respiratory tract. The medicine can be directly treated in the respiratory tract after being nebulized. A very small amount of it will be absorbed by the body and will not cause any side effects to the body.

You should strengthen exercise on weekdays to improve the body's resistance. It is recommended to soak your feet for twenty minutes at night to warm the body and drive away the cold. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, take appropriate vitamin supplements, don't be picky about food, and eat a balanced diet to stay healthy.

Coughing is a protective reflex of the human body that helps to expel respiratory secretions and foreign matter, but frequent coughing can bring many adverse consequences. In medicine, a cough that lasts for more than 8 weeks is called a chronic cough, and its causes can generally be divided into two categories. One category is those who have clear lesions in the initial chest X-ray examination, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, etc. The other type is those with no obvious abnormalities on chest X-rays, with cough as the main or only symptom, which is commonly known as chronic cough of "unknown cause".

The dangers of frequent coughing:

1. Long-term coughing will cause hypoxemia, pneumothorax and mediastinal emphysema, and in severe cases may develop into acute pulmonary edema. Therefore, cough variant asthma cannot be ignored.

2. Protracted development of the disease can cause numerous complications, including emphysema, cor pulmonale, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc.

3. At the same time, it will also cause a deep shadow on the patient's psychology. Because many patients with cough variant asthma cannot participate in social activities and cannot travel with others, they will lose their due happiness and will gradually become depressed. It causes many psychological diseases. The Chinese Asthma Network’s many years of clinical experience has found that psychological factors have a great impact on cough variability.

Coughing is very annoying, but people are often helpless about it because the treatment of a cough can only be effective after the disease causing the cough has been thoroughly treated. The formation and recurrence of a cough are often the result of the combined effects of many complex factors, so it is often difficult to treat a cough.