Chronic cough in children, partly due to rhinitis!

  When children first start kindergarten, they often catch a cold and cough, and sometimes the cough lasts for weeks or even months. Some of them also have congestion, runny nose, sneezing, snoring during sleep, nose rubbing and dark circles under their eyes. After a doctor’s examination, it turns out that the child’s long-lasting cough is caused by rhinitis.  Chronic cough caused by rhinitis is medically known as upper airway cough syndrome, which was also called postnasal drip syndrome. It usually manifests itself as a cough in the morning after waking up, before going to bed, or at night when turning over. When you cough, you feel a phlegm sound in your throat, and when you check the pharynx, you will find fluid leaking from the back of the nostril, some of which looks like a “waterfall flowing straight down to the pharynx” and is either clear or white or yellowish in color. These fluids are the cause of the “phlegm” sound in the child’s throat. Allergic rhinitis accounts for the majority of chronic rhinitis, and children with allergic rhinitis are prone to sneeze and runny nose after being exposed to the wind and slightly reduced clothing. The weather is heating up, air conditioning is about to be used, and some children go to swimming classes after the summer holidays. Microorganisms in the air conditioning and disinfectant substances in the pool water can irritate the respiratory tract, making rhinitis, which should not be easy to attack in the hot season, aggravated. The rhinitis is one of the risk factors for asthma attacks, and asthma is easily triggered when rhinitis is difficult to heal.   Children with allergic rhinitis often have rhinitis attacks when they get cold, and are prone to sweating at night and recurrent respiratory infections. This kind of children are mostly qi deficiency, yang deficiency physique, treatment should benefit qi to replenish the spleen and lung. In summer, we recommend the use of Chinese herbal acupuncture point patching therapy (winter disease summer treatment three volt patching) to promote the role of Yang Qi. Generally use pungent and warm orifice products, in the hot summer season for acupuncture point application, 1 year of three volt days a total of 3 to 4 times, adhere to the treatment after 3 years, most rhinitis symptoms can be significantly reduced. You should also pay attention to avoid contact with allergens, do not get cold, avoid passive smoking, insist on cold water washing, air conditioning temperature is not too low, etc., in order to reduce the recurrence of rhinitis.