Children sleep for a while on the cough, can be caused by physiological factors or pathological factors, common including: cough variant asthma, gastroesophageal reflux and so on. 1. Physiological factors: If the air in the room where the child sleeps is too dry, it is likely to lead to the child’s throat and airways are dry, which in turn produces irritating coughs, and the phenomenon of children coughing after a short period of sleep. You can use a humidifier to increase air humidity. 2. Cough variant asthma: a chronic disease, with genetic and environmental factors. Its symptoms are mainly coughing violently, and coughing at night and in the early morning is especially obvious, so it will also lead to children sleep a while on the cough. 3. Gastroesophageal reflux: If a child overeats before going to bed at night, or has excessive gastric acid secretion, when sleeping at night due to changes in body position, it is easy to gastroesophageal reflux, so that gastric acid upward stimulation of the throat, trachea and other parts of the body, which will cause the child to sleep a while on the cough. As you can see, if it is a pathological factor that causes a child to sleep a while coughing, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, targeted treatment.