Baby coughing at night can be seen in respiratory infections, rhinitis – sinusitis and other conditions, there is no fast way to stop coughing, according to the cause of the reasonable treatment, such as respiratory infections need to be reasonable anti-infectious, symptomatic cough expectorant treatment.
1. Respiratory tract infections: acute bronchitis caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, often appearing at night violent cough performance, the early stage of the disease presents a dry cough, may be accompanied by symptoms of fever.
Treatment requires the use of azithromycin or erythromycin anti-infective treatment, lung cough and other drugs to alleviate the cough symptoms, for those with a severe cough, discretionary use of budesonide nebulizer treatment.
2. Rhinitis – sinusitis: these babies often have nasal congestion, runny nose and other symptoms, due to nasal secretions backflow stimulation of the respiratory tract cough symptoms, easy to appear at night.
Treatment for acute children or chronic children with purulent secretions, the need to use antibacterial drugs (such as amoxicillin clavulanate potassium) anti-infective treatment, the use of nasal glucocorticosteroids (such as mometasone furoate) for the local nasal spray and other treatments.
3. Cough variant asthma: there may be a history of allergy, often with recurrent cough, more frequent at night, presenting a dry cough, perfect pulmonary function tests can assist in the diagnosis, the treatment requires the use of inhaled glucocorticosteroids (eg, budesonide) to carry out nebulization therapy, and the use of leukotriene receptor antagonists (eg, montelukast) to reduce airway reactivity therapy.
All of the above medications need to be used under the supervision of a physician, and active consultation and evaluation by a specialist is recommended.