During the fall and winter months, many children are prone to coughing, which can be difficult to treat. Besides colds and some acute inflammatory conditions such as bronchitis and pneumonia, a few other common causes of cough in children are as follows.
1. Postnasal drip syndrome: The cough is heavy at night and early in the morning, with or without coughing up sputum. The child has nasal congestion, feels as if something is dripping into the posterior pharyngeal wall, and often clears his throat.
2. Cough variant cough: a long cough with little or no sputum, aggravated by exercise or inhalation of cold air, and often aggravated by a cold.
3. Allergic cough: manifests as a dry cough, not accompanied by wheezing and dyspnea, and can be associated with other allergic diseases.
4. Infectious cough: It is caused by respiratory viral or chlamydial or mycoplasma infections later. It is mainly seen in children under 5 years of age. The cough occurs after an upper respiratory tract infection. The cough persists even after symptoms such as fever, sore throat and runny nose have disappeared.
According to Chinese medicine, the main lesion of cough is the lung, which is caused by a loss of lung circulation and lung qi rebellion. Coughs are divided into coughs with external sensations and coughs with internal injuries. In external coughs, the onset is rapid, the cough is high, the duration is short, and it is often accompanied by cold symptoms. Internal injury cough has a slow onset, a low cough, and a long duration of illness. Internal injury coughs are caused by improper treatment of external coughs that do not heal, or due to lung and spleen deficiency or other diseases. Internal injury cough is divided into four types of evidence: phlegm-heat cough, phlegm-damp cough, deficiency of lung qi, and deficiency of lung yin.
1. Phlegm-heat cough: the cough is full of phlegm, which is thick and yellow in color and does not come out easily. The face is red, the lips are red, or the mouth is thirsty and the stool is dry. This is mostly due to weakness of the lung and spleen, with Qi not transforming fluid to produce phlegm, or due to the accumulation of phlegm and heat in the diet, or due to coughing for a long time, resulting in the accumulation of phlegm and heat and obstruction of the airways.
2. Cough with phlegm and dampness: coughing with a lot of phlegm, phlegm ringing in the throat, white and thin phlegm. It is accompanied by loss of appetite, fatigue, and unformed stools. This is because the child’s spleen is often deficient, the diet does not transform, or the excessive consumption of raw cold breeds phlegm.
3. Lung Qi deficiency cough: prolonged cough, weak cough, white and thin sputum. It is mainly seen in children with weak and susceptible constitution, or due to external coughs that do not heal for a long time, causing deficiency of lung qi, weakness of spleen qi and internal production of phlegm.
4. Lung Yin deficiency cough: prolonged cough, dry cough without phlegm, or little phlegm that is difficult to cough. There is much heat in the hands and feet, much sweating at bedtime, and dry stools. The cough is dry due to the depletion of the lung fluid after a long cough.
Commonly used proprietary Chinese medicine options.
1. Phlegm-heat cough: Jinzhen Oral Liquid, Pediatric Lung-heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid, Pediatric Clear Heat and Lung Oral Liquid, Lung Power Cough Compound.
2. cough with phlegm and dampness: Cough and Orange Red Oral Liquid, Pediatric Cough and Cough Relief Oral Liquid, Orange Red Cough Granules.
3. cough with yin deficiency: Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lung Oral Liquid, Sophora Qiyi Huang Granules.
4. cough with qi deficiency: Yu Ping Feng San, Tong Kang Tablets, Huang Qi Granules, Liu Jun Zi Pills.
5. Itchy and dry throat cough (without phlegm): Children’s Clear Pharynx and Relieve Fever and Heat Oral Liquid or Pudilan Anti-inflammatory Oral Liquid + Lung Power Cough Combination.
Special treatment.
1.Fujiu compressing: Using the theory of “winter disease and summer treatment, summer disease and winter prevention”, compressing in the three volts of summer and three nines of winter each year can play a role in the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, and can also regulate the body’s immune function and enhance the body’s ability to resist disease.
2, Chinese medicine ion introduction: Chinese medicine ion introduction is the use of specially designed electric pulse wave, through the role of warmth and magnetic field, the high-tech process of extracting and refining into a liquid external drug, accelerate the action of the active ingredients to specific points of an external treatment method. Can treat cough phlegm disease.
3, cupping therapy: the ancient name “corner method” through the role of negative pressure to promote the absorption of local inflammation, and open the coup hair orifice, so that the evil from the skin out. Through the role of warmth, can restore its yang, disperse its evil; promote the absorption of inflammation.
4, thunder fire moxibustion, also known as “thunder fire needle”, belongs to the category of Chinese medicine moxibustion method. It is different from the traditional moxa, but the addition of some warming and dispersing cold, lung and phlegm, blood circulation and other Chinese medicine, can play a warming and dispersing cold, the role of the meridians, and obvious cough, asthma, spleen and beneficial effects.
5, Chinese medicine nebulization inhalation: pharyngeal itching and dry cough, caused by pharyngitis, can do Chinese medicine nebulization. It can play a role in clearing heat and throat to stop coughing.
Dietary therapy.
1.Pear + rock sugar + Sichuan shellfish
Cut the pear crosswise by the handle, dig out the middle core and put 2-3 pieces of rock sugar and 5-6 pieces of Chuanbei (Chuanbei should be cracked into the end), put the pear into a bowl and steam it on the pot for about 30 minutes, and give it to the baby in two times. This formula has a lung moistening, cough effect, for dry cough for a long time, no phlegm or phlegm less.
2.Boil radish water
Wash white radish, cut 4-5 thin slices, put it into a small pot, add half a bowl of water, put it on the fire and boil it, then switch to low fire and boil it for 5 minutes. Wait for the water to cool slightly before giving it to your baby. It is suitable for phlegm-damp cough and cough with food accumulation.
3. Water chestnut: Take 2-3 water chestnuts and peel them, cut them into thin slices, put them into a pot, add a bowl of water and boil them on the fire for 5 minutes. It is effective for hot coughs with spitting pus and phlegm.
4.Yam porridge
Peel the yam, cut it into small pieces and put it into a food grinder, then add half a bowl of water and process the yam into a thin paste. Then pour it into a pot and put it on the fire while stirring constantly to boil it. Babies are best served on an empty stomach, and a good bowl of yam porridge can be fed to the baby in 2-3 servings. Yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes the lung energy and benefits the kidney essence. This recipe is most suitable for infants and young children, not only to stop coughing and cure asthma, but also to treat anorexia, excessive false sweating, drooling, qi deficiency and timidity in children. It should be noted that the yam decoction time should not be too long, otherwise the amylase contained in it will break down and lose its tonic effect.
5, red dates + white fruits
This recipe is suitable for babies over 2 years old. Take 3 red dates and 3 white fruits into a small pot, add half a bowl of water and boil for 10 minutes on medium heat. Give it to your baby every night before going to bed. Red dates are warm, benefit the qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach; white fruits are calm and astringent to lung qi, fix cough and asthma, and have the effect of fixing the kidneys, so it is very effective for some children with prolonged cough, recurrent colds and coughs, and it can also treat enuresis.
Daily care.
As the saying goes, “three parts cure, seven parts nourish”, so if you want to cure a child’s cough, you must pay attention to “nourish”.
1. Keep the air inside your home fresh: kitchen fumes should be discharged, and parents should not swallow smoke at home. The windows should be opened regularly for ventilation. The dirty air will cause adverse stimulation to the respiratory mucosa, which can make the respiratory mucosa congestion, edema, secretion abnormalities or aggravate the cough, and can cause wheezing symptoms in severe cases.
2, timely increase and decrease of clothing: Many parents believe that children are definitely more afraid of cold than adults, they often do not distinguish between the seasons, indoor and outdoor, the child covered too thick, wrapped too tightly, not to let the child suffer a little cold, the result is the body’s poor regulatory capacity, low resistance.
3, the room to maintain appropriate humidity: dry climate, you can often use a wet mop mop, or sprinkle some water on the floor. The environment is too dry, the air humidity drops, the mucous membrane is dry and brittle, the small blood vessels may rupture and bleed, the cilia movement is restricted, and the phlegm is not easy to cough up.
4, pay attention to diet regulation.
As the saying goes, “fish produces fire, meat produces phlegm, green vegetables and tofu keep safe”. Chinese medicine believes that fish, crab, shrimp and fatty meat and other meat, greasy food, may help wet phlegm, some may also cause allergic reactions, aggravating the disease. Spicy products such as chili, pepper and ginger stimulate the respiratory tract and aggravate the cough, so be careful to avoid them. Fresh vegetables such as green vegetables, carrots and tomatoes can supply a variety of vitamins and inorganic salts, which are beneficial to the recovery of the body’s metabolic functions.
5. Ensure adequate sleep sleep: You should try to let your child rest in bed more often and ensure that your child gets enough sleep to facilitate the recovery of the organism.