What to do if your child has a dry cough that won’t go away

Children dry cough old bad may be due to acute bronchitis, pneumonia, cough variant asthma and other diseases, need to follow the doctor’s instructions for drug treatment, general measures. 1. Acute bronchitis: usually patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use cough suppressant treatment, some patients also need to use penicillin, cefuroxime and other antibiotics under the guidance of the doctor. 2. Pneumonia: general pneumococcal pneumonia patients need to comply with medical advice to use amoxicillin clavulanate potassium and other antibiotic treatment. If it is Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia, you can use antibiotics such as erythromycin. In case of viral pneumonia, antiviral drugs such as ribavirin are also required. 3. Cough variant asthma: usually patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use prednisone acetate and other glucocorticosteroid drugs. Some patients can also use ipratropium bromide and other inhaled anticholinergic drugs. It is recommended that patients pay more attention to their own daily care, if the child dry cough is not good, but also need to find out the cause of the disease, to take targeted treatment.