What is a chronic cough? A cough that lasts more than a month in children is medically defined as a chronic cough. There are several types of chronic cough: different causes will show different cough manifestations. Let’s first understand the most common ones: Zhou Jingdong, Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Many children have a cough every day. The cough can be a few coughs or more frequent, mostly in the morning when they get up or go to sleep, some have a nocturnal cough, and some do not get up at night without coughing when they have to cough a few times. The cough can be mild or severe. Many babies have a cough accompanied by sneezing, nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, nasal itching and itchy eyes. This cough is called allergic cough, also known as cough variant asthma, which is a specific type of asthma with chronic cough as the main or only clinical manifestation. In the early stages of the disease, paroxysmal coughing is the main symptom, often triggered after an upper whistle infection, inhalation of irritating odors, cold air, exposure to allergic substances or eating allergic foods, exercise or crying, and most children are often misdiagnosed as having bronchitis, mycoplasma infection or pneumonia. The medical community now clearly considers cough variant asthma as a form of asthma. Many parents talk about asthma but let their guard down for the commonplace cough, which actually just behaves differently, so parents are asked to pay attention to it. Such children mostly have a history of allergies: such as allergic rhinitis and eczema, and some of them can be traced back to a family history of allergies. If not treated systematically, some of these children can manifest as typical asthma after a few years. There is another type of cough called upper airway cough syndrome, which is predominantly a dry cough that mostly attacks in the morning and evening, accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, flu drops, pharyngeal discomfort, itching, and associated symptoms such as hoarseness. Older children may report a foreign body sensation in the pharynx and often throat clearing movements. Symptoms may worsen with changes in body position, and triggering factors such as cold, flu, rain and overexertion may cause symptoms to recur or worsen. Nasal diseases such as allergic rhinitis, post-infectious rhinitis and sinusitis are common factors in the development of upper airway cough syndrome in children. Therefore, when children present with a chronic cough with nasal or pharyngeal symptoms, the possibility of upper airway syndrome should be considered for an early and definitive diagnosis and treatment. In addition, if the cough is paroxysmal and occurs mostly after eating and drinking, and partly with epigastric or gastrointestinal discomfort, chest pain, and a burning sensation behind the sternum, it is mostly a gastroesophageal reflux cough. The above coughs are treated with Chinese medicine, which can not only control the symptoms and cure the cough, but also adjust all aspects of the body and treat both the symptoms and the root cause. There are several therapeutic recipes for you to try: 1. Walnuts: 3 to 5 grams each time raw, 3 times a day, for 1 to 2 months. It can nourish the kidneys and astringent lungs, which is useful for the recovery and prevention of asthma. 2, cure croup cream: 1 part of walnut kernel, half of fried almond, half of white fruit, and 1 part of rock sugar. The above herbs, put together a total of pounded into a puree. Stored for backup, children can take 5 grams a day, 1-2 times a day, and used for 1 month. 3, pigeon droppings, grinded into capsules, 1~2 capsules each time, 2 times a day, for 2~3 months. 4, northern melon (peach pumpkin) a, chopped plus an equal amount of caramel (i.e. maltose), add water and put in a ceramic pot, boil until extremely rotten, remove the slag, concentrate the juice, and then add ginger juice, (about a pound of melon juice with ginger juice two or two), take a spoonful a day, 2 to 3 times a day, boiled water.