What to do if your child has a fever and cough with a runny nose

Children with fever, cough and runny nose are mostly caused by colds and upper respiratory tract infections. Most colds are caused by viral infections and a few are caused by bacterial infections. Generally, colds caused by viral infections are somewhat self-limiting and can generally be relieved on their own by drinking more water and eating a light diet, and higher temperatures can be temporarily reduced with ibuprofen or acetaminophen. If the symptoms are more obvious, you can take a few days of oral paediatric aminophenanthramine granules, or oseltamivir, ribavirin class of antiviral drugs treatment. If repeated fever, coughing up purulent sputum and running nose are considered to be combined with bacterial infection, oral cephalosporin or penicillin antibiotics can be taken to combat the infection. In Chinese medicine, colds are divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. If the child has a runny nose, coughs white sputum with chills, which is a wind-cold cold, he can take oral cold and fever granules or wind-cold cold granules for symptomatic treatment. If the child coughs yellow sputum, coughs yellow nose with fever, which is manifested as wind-heat cold, he can take Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid or Lianhua Qingfei Granules orally.