Coughs are common in pediatrics and can be seen in a variety of illnesses in infants and children. There are many different types of coughs, so which coughs need parents’ attention? Parents can distinguish what may be wrong with their child based on the sound and characteristics of the cough, as well as the accompanying symptoms. 1. If a child has a cough with a cracking or barking sound, accompanied by hoarseness, a whistling, honking or chicken sound in the throat when inhaling, and gradually worsens, be alert to the fact that this may be a sign of laryngitis; 2. A cough with a wheezing sound in the throat, shortness of breath, painful expression and irritability, especially a violent cough at night that will wake up and make it difficult to sleep, think about whether the child has asthma; 3. A cough with runny nose, fever, and similar symptoms in fellow children in nursery schools and kindergartens, one should think of a viral upper respiratory tract infection of some infectious disease, or sometimes it may be a precursor symptom of some respiratory infectious disease, which should be promptly ruled out by a doctor; 4. Children cough more strongly at night than during the day, mostly dry cough with little sputum, no fever, the onset will mostly be in the same season, antibiotic treatment is ineffective, often accompanied by eczema, 5. If the child has a cough accompanied by fever, poor spirits, decreased appetite, shortness of breath, nasal agitation and blue lips, the child should be considered to have pneumonia; 6. If the child has a frequent dry cough, low fever in the afternoon, excessive sweating at night, poor appetite, progressive weight loss or no weight gain, and enlarged and adherent superficial lymph nodes, the child should be considered to have tuberculosis; 7. 7. If a child suddenly chokes and coughs while playing or eating, has difficulty breathing, and has blue lips, beware if a foreign body is accidentally introduced into the trachea; 8. If a small infant coughs violently, and is light in the morning and heavy in the evening, and coughs continuously for more than a dozen times, and coughs violently with red face and ears, suffocates, and cannot breathe, and finally has an inspiratory cock-like coda in the throat, beware if the child has whooping cough; 9. If your child has a cough with a lot of sputum, sometimes thick sputum, often with blood or blood in the sputum, and has repeated episodes of pneumonia in the same area, then you should think about whether your child has bronchiectasis.