A child who falls asleep without coughing and wakes up coughing may be related to an allergic cough, or it may be due to a respiratory infection, chronic pharyngitis, or other causes.
1. allergic cough: common in itself for the allergic body of the child, after waking up in the cold air after contact with the stimulation, or pollen, dust and other undesirable factors of stimulation, easy to induce allergic cough, will show when waking up coughing, and falling asleep does not usually cough symptoms.
2. Respiratory tract infections: If the child suffers from respiratory tract infections, resulting in increased respiratory secretions, the body is in a static state when asleep, generally does not cause coughing, and waking up, the body is in a state of activity, it is easy to stimulate the respiratory tract among the secretions, which causes coughing phenomenon.
3. Chronic pharyngitis: If the child suffers from chronic pharyngitis, due to the presence of inflammatory reaction of the mucous membrane of the throat, stimulation by inflammation, resulting in congestion and edema of the mucous membrane of the throat, while sleeping at night will not be congested, edematous mucous membrane of the throat to form a stimulus, generally do not cough. After waking up, the mucous membrane of the throat is too dry, which can easily cause irritating cough symptoms.
Children fall asleep not cough wake up cough, if the symptoms persist, should seek medical attention as soon as possible, after the causative factor is clear, by the doctor’s guidance for treatment.