What should I do if I have a severe cough late at night?

Colds can occur in any season. Sudden cool or hot weather is the most likely to cause a cold. The temperature difference is too large. Most people will cough after catching a cold. The cough caused by many people's colds is very strange. They don't cough during the day but cough severely at night. Frequent coughing at night will not only affect your physical health, but also affect your sleep. What should you do if you cough severely late at night?

What should I do if I have a severe cough in the middle of the night? 1. Drink more water. Drinking water is a very good way to regulate for people who have coughs, because many people cough at night because of dry throat. If you can't drink water in time at this time, the symptoms of coughing will become more and more severe. Therefore, in order to relieve physical discomfort, it is recommended that you adjust in time at this time. Relieve the problem of coughing in the middle of the night. 2. Adjust sleeping position. Some people experience symptoms of coughing in the middle of the night because they suffer from illness, and incorrect body posture will aggravate physical discomfort. Therefore, in order to have a good sleep, it is recommended that you pay attention to your sleeping posture in life. In addition, for people who cough in the middle of the night, raising the pillow is also a very good choice. The principle is that raising the pillow while sleeping can reduce irritation to the throat. 3. Take medicine. For some patients who cough in the middle of the night due to respiratory diseases, the best treatment is to take medicine to control the condition as soon as possible. This will help everyone's respiratory diseases be treated and then return to normal.

When you sleep at night, because your body is lying flat, the abdominal organs and the diaphragm (the boundary between the chest and abdomen) are pulled up, which can lead to restricted lung relaxation. Therefore, coughing symptoms are more severe at night than during the day.

2. Detoxify your lungs at night

Coughing can clear foreign objects from the throat and bronchi, and is also a way for the body to detoxify. 3-5 a.m. is the best time for the lungs to detoxify, so when there is a cough, many people cough most violently at this time.

3. Blood and Qi Circulation at Night

Between 1 and 3 a.m., the body's blood and qi flow to the lung meridian. The lungs begin to self-regulate and repair themselves, and a slight cough at this time is normal. However, if you smoke, your cough will be more severe at night.

4. Nocturnal vagus nerve excitement

The nerves around the bronchi of the lungs include the vagus nerve. At night, the vagus nerve is relatively active. The excitement of the vagus nerve will increase the secretions of the trachea and bronchial tubes of the lungs and stimulate the contraction of the tracheal and bronchial smooth muscles. Therefore, when there is a cough, the cough is relatively severe at night.

5. Improper eating before bed

If you consume spicy and irritating food for a long time, it is easy to cause excessive lung fire and trigger cough. Especially eating too much before going to bed at night may cause the stomach and intestines to not get proper rest and cause food accumulation cough. If the cough at night is caused by indigestion, you can feel phlegm in the throat.

6. The air in the sleeping environment is dry and not circulated

When sleeping at night, many people are accustomed to closing doors and windows, which makes the indoor air turbid, with low oxygen content and high waste content, thus stimulating the lungs and causing coughing. You should open the windows for ventilation before going to bed, and keep the windows open when sleeping to facilitate air circulation. In addition, it is recommended to dry water in the bedroom or place some green plants outside the window before going to bed, and water them frequently to effectively maintain indoor humidity.

7. Allergic reaction to sleeping supplies

If you rarely or not cough during the day, but start coughing at night when you go to bed, you should consider respiratory allergies, which may be related to the quilts and pillows you use. The allergens may be cotton wool, dust, mites, etc.

Treatment method: Regularly cleaning the quilt and maintaining indoor humidity can effectively relieve allergies.

8. Disease factors

(1) Pharyngitis: Patients with pharyngitis experience inflammation, spasm and edema in the throat, which causes narrowing of the throat. The lung secretions increase at night, which irritates the throat and causes the cough to worsen at night.

(2) Chronic bronchitis: Patients with chronic bronchitis have increased bronchial secretions in their lungs at night. They are in a deep sleep and cannot expel phlegm in time. When they change their sleeping position at night, the secretions stimulate the contraction of bronchial smooth muscles, causing severe coughing at night.

(3) Allergic cough: When sleeping at night, the Yin Qi gradually increases, and the Yang Qi is insufficient. If the lungs are cold, the external cold will trigger the internal cold, which will manifest as a cough.

Tips: In this case, to stop the cough, you must first treat the disease. Treat the physical disease first, and the cough will naturally disappear.