What causes coughing in patients with cerebral infarction

Coughing in patients with cerebral infarction may be caused by a kind of swallowing dysfunction caused by the cerebral infarction itself. Patients may have difficulty in swallowing, or choking on drinking water, and difficulty in swallowing can easily cause aspiration, leading to death by asphyxiation. When choking on drinking water, patients are prone to aspiration pneumonia, which can be manifested by coughing and sputum. If the patient swallowing dysfunction, short-term difficult to recover, should be given to retain the gastric tube nasogastric diet, nasogastric administration of drugs to prevent aspiration and prevent aspiration pneumonia. At the same time, it is necessary to actively treat cerebral infarction, and the patient’s symptoms will be relieved after the recovery of cerebral infarction. Its treatment includes ultra-early thrombolytic therapy, exceeding the time window of thrombolytic therapy, mainly giving oral aspirin antiplatelet aggregation therapy, at the same time, giving neuroprotection as well as improving blood circulation therapy, and giving swallowing function rehabilitation training and limb function rehabilitation therapy and so on. If the patient is bedridden for a long time after cerebral infarction, it will cause lung infection, and the patient may have cough, and at the same time, the patient will have fever, and the white blood cell examination will appear to be elevated, and the main treatment is to give anti-infective treatment, and the commonly used medicines include ceftriaxone sodium and cefoperazone sumatriptan, and so on.