How to distinguish between wind-heat and wind-cold cough in children

Chinese medicine believes that to distinguish between a child’s cough belongs to the wind-cold or wind-heat need to be judged from the child’s clinical symptoms as well as the tongue and pulse.
1. wind-heat cough: by feeling wind-heat caused by coughing children are mainly manifested as coughing up phlegm, phlegm yellow thick amount of difficult to swallow, when fever, tongue red, thin yellow moss, floating pulse and other symptoms.
2. Cough caused by wind-cold: children with cough caused by wind-cold mainly show symptoms such as coughing up phlegm, white clear phlegm, coughing, cold, pale tongue, thin white moss, floating tight pulse, and so on.
Cough children, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the treatment, not to take their own medication, so as not to delay the condition.