Baby sleep cough like choking, may be due to gastroesophageal reflux, allergic cough, inhalation of foreign bodies and other factors, according to the cause of the choice of life conditioning, antihistamines, foreign body removal and other ways to ease.
1. Gastroesophageal reflux: the baby is still relatively small, due to its physiological and anatomical structure of the characteristics of the stomach in the horizontal shape when sleeping, it is easy to make the stomach contents reflux to the throat area, thus causing the baby to appear irritating cough, like choking. At this time, the baby should be allowed to properly reduce the diet before bedtime, and give back patting to ease the discomfort when coughing.
2. Allergic cough: If the baby belongs to the allergic body, it may be in the sleep, because the inhalation of dust mites, pollen and other particles, and then appear irritating cough, like choking. Not only need to give allergen removal, if necessary, should be given loratadine, cetirizine and other antihistamines treatment.
3. Inhalation of foreign bodies: when the baby sleeps, it may be because they like to sleep with their mouths open, and foreign bodies can easily enter the respiratory tract, irritate the respiratory tract, and produce an obvious cough. Foreign body removal needs to be given to improve the coughing phenomenon.
Baby sleep cough like choking may also exist other causes, need to cooperate with the doctor to improve the examination, and then targeted treatment or treatment. All of the above medication should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.