The difference between wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough in babies is mainly due to different symptoms or signs and different treatments, as follows: 1. Different symptoms or signs: wind-cold cough is mainly characterized by acute and heavy coughing, itchy throat and clear and white sputum, while wind-heat cough is mostly characterized by coarse breath, hoarseness and sore throat. 2. Different treatments: wind-cold cough is mainly seen in external wind-cold symptoms, often accompanied by nasal congestion, clear runny nose, headache, aching limbs or vicious cold. The treatment should be based on dispersing wind and cold, promoting the lung and relieving cough, and is often treated clinically with cough suppressant. Wind-heat cough is often accompanied by unpleasant coughing and phlegm, sticky yellow phlegm, yellow runny nose, thirst, headache, bad wind and body heat, etc. The main treatment should be to remove wind and heat, promote the lung and stop coughing. Wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough are both types of external cough.