Best time to treat cough variant asthma in children

  Cough variant asthma in children should be treated as soon as possible after diagnosis.  Cough variant asthma in children is a special type of bronchial asthma, in the pathological characteristics of chronic allergic inflammation of the airways and airway hyperresponsiveness, children often do not have the typical clinical features of bronchial asthma such as episodes of cough, chest tightness, breath-holding or shortness of breath at the time of consultation, but mainly present with persistent or recurrent cough attacks for more than one month, which are ineffective after longer antibiotic treatment, and about 30% of Children with “cough variant asthma” can develop into clinically typical bronchial asthma, which is the initial stage of bronchial asthma. Bronchial asthma is a disease that cannot be cured, and even if the child is free of asthma symptoms after a period of treatment, chronic inflammation of the airways will still exist, seriously affecting the child’s health as well as development. Therefore, you should go to the hospital to confirm the diagnosis after the early symptoms appear, and after the diagnosis, standardized treatment should be carried out as soon as possible.  In conclusion, parents should take their children to the pediatrician or pediatric respiratory medicine department for bronchodilator tests, pulmonary function tests, and other related tests to clarify the cause of the cough and treat it as soon as possible after the child develops recurrent persistent cough or paroxysmal cough.