What should I do if my child keeps coughing?

Recurring coughs will not only greatly affect a person's mental state, but also damage a person's throat. Therefore, for the problem of recurring coughs, it is necessary to find the correct method to treat it. Since children have weaker immunity, they are more likely to catch a cold. After a cold occurs, coughing symptoms will occur. However, if the child's coughing symptoms have not been cured, how should it be solved?

Why does my child keep coughing?

As the weather changes, with alternations between hot and cold, children are prone to catching colds and coughing due to their poor resistance. Coughing is one of the symptoms that often accompanies colds. Medically speaking, coughing is a defensive reflex movement that can prevent the inhalation of foreign objects and spit out phlegm. It is good for children's health to cough occasionally.

Usually, a child's cold lasts for 7-10 days, and cough is often the last symptom to disappear, and may even last for several weeks. As long as the child's coughing frequency gradually decreases, the child is in good spirits, has a good appetite, and engages in normal activities and play, parents should not worry. If a child's cough does not go away, keeps coming back, and cannot be cured after long-term treatment, it is most likely an allergic cough. Parents should take their children to the hospital for examination, find out the cause of the illness, rule out the possibility of other diseases, and prescribe the right medicine.

What to do if your child keeps coughing

If your child's cough persists, it is recommended that you take him to the hospital to rule out inflammation, bronchitis, pneumonia or diseases of other organs. This requires identification by a professional doctor and is difficult for parents to judge on their own. If a child has a cough, parents can pat their child's back to help him/her spit out phlegm and make him/her feel more comfortable. Parents can also prepare some cough-relieving, light and easy-to-digest food for their children to replenish the energy they need.

Pat on the back. When the baby coughs violently, it is best to hold him up with his upper body at a 45-degree angle, and gently pat his back with your hands to dilute the secretions adhering to the trachea and facilitate coughing.

Maintaining air temperature, humidity and cleanliness is very important. The room temperature should be kept at around 20-26℃, with regular ventilation and indoor humidity at 50%-70%, which is conducive to diluting sputum and coughing it out. If the air is too dry, sputum will stick to the tracheal wall and be difficult to discharge.

Boil white radish in water: If your child has been coughing for several days and has difficulty falling asleep at night, buy a few white radishes, cut half of the radish into slices every night, and boil them in clean water. After the radish is cooked, filter out the water with a teacup or small bowl, and drink it after it cools down a little. Coughing can be reduced. Drink it for a few days in a row and your cough will be cured.

Stewed mushrooms with pear juice: Pears can moisten the lungs and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce heat. The interferon produced by the double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in the mushrooms can eliminate viruses in the human body. Use the diet therapy of "pear juice stewed with mushrooms" to prevent and treat dry coughs in autumn and winter and eliminate infections. Generally, the effect will be seen after taking it for two or three days. Peel and slice 4 duck pears and squeeze out the juice. Wash and slice 200 grams of mushrooms, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar and stew together. After the mushrooms are cooked, eat them with the soup twice a day in the morning and evening.