Children do not necessarily need to take anti-inflammatory drugs for coughing, if it is a viral infection, you can generally drink more water, symptomatic treatment, you can eat cough medication to resolve phlegm. Only when the bacterial infection is combined and there are indications for the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, then it is necessary to take anti-inflammatory drugs orally. You can take sputum for bacterial culture to determine the type of antimicrobial drugs, before determining the first empirical choice of penicillin, cephalosporin broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs, such as amoxicillin granules, cefixime chewable tablets. If you consider that there are mycoplasma and chlamydia infections, which will be accompanied by severe cough symptoms, you need to take oral macrolide antimicrobial drugs, such as azithromycin, erythromycin and so on. Children with cough symptoms, try to go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to use medication.