Coughing as soon as your child lies down to sleep may be due to colds, gastroesophageal reflux and other causes. General treatment and medication can be taken to improve their symptoms.
1. Cough variant asthma: in life, if often exposed to cold air or allergens, may trigger cough variant asthma, daytime not cough lying down cough symptoms. You can follow the doctor’s instructions to use anti-allergic drugs to carry out treatment, commonly used drugs such as budesonide inhalation aerosol.
2. Gastroesophageal reflux: due to the immaturity of the lower esophageal sphincter or poor neuromuscular coordination of small infants, reflux can occur, which can occur during sleep, supine position and fasting, and can cause irritating dry cough. It can be treated with medications under doctor’s diagnosis, such as omeprazole enteric-coated capsules and domperidone suspension to promote gastrointestinal digestion and enhance gastric motility.
Positional therapy will elevate the head of the bed 30 °, the best position for small infants is forward leaning prone position, diet therapy to thick diet, small amount of meals, infants to increase the number of breastfeeding, artificially fed children can be added to the milk of starchy food or eat cereals.
If the child’s body shows signs of discomfort, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time. Depending on the test results, the treatment is different.