What to use for your child’s runny nose and cough

Children with runny nose and cough common diseases such as acute upper respiratory tract disease, bronchitis, allergic cough, etc., need to choose the medication according to the cause of the disease, common including pediatric cold medicine, anti-allergy drugs, antibiotics and so on. 1. Acute upper respiratory tract disease: mostly caused by viral infections, generally can be self-healing, no need to use drugs. If combined with bacterial infection, need to eat amoxicillin and other antibiotics. Runny cough is the body’s normal way of expelling germs, do not recommend giving children cough suppressants or decongestants, you can help relieve the discomfort through daily care, such as hot compresses on the nose, saline nasal cleaning, directly taking honey and so on. 2. Bronchitis: can be caused by viral, bacterial or mycoplasma infections, clear bacterial infections, need to be given antibiotics to fight infection in a timely manner, such as cefixime, mycoplasma infections use azithromycin to fight infection. 3. Allergic cough: allergic children, contact with external allergens can appear after the runny nose, cough and other symptoms, so you need to avoid contact with allergens, when the symptoms are serious, you can use anti-allergy drugs, such as loratadine. If the symptoms of runny nose and cough are not relieved, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease and treatment, the above drugs are recommended to be taken under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be used on their own.