In the hospital in winter, we often see these familiar little faces. Often, a child’s fever and cough return within a few days, or the cough begins to subside and then recurs, or the cough is clearly relieved and then suddenly worsens and coughs incessantly. What causes a good cough to change for a bad one, without end?
Some of the more common clinical causes are
Recurrent respiratory tract infections.
This is the most common cause of recurrent coughs. In autumn and winter, the dry, cold air reduces the body’s ability to fight disease in the respiratory tract, so respiratory infections begin to increase. And as the number of people with respiratory infections increases, so do the sources of infection and the chances of cross-infection.
There are often children who have a cold and cough and then start coughing again in less than a week after being sent to kindergarten. This is because the child’s immune system is weak when the illness is just over, and many of the children go to kindergarten with the illness, causing cross-infection and coughing again.
There are also children who have just recovered and whose mothers take them to crowded places such as shopping malls, movie theaters, and restaurants, where there is no good ventilation, but the population is dense and the sick people are mixed in with them, resulting in re-infection and coughing again. Other children are recovering from minor illnesses and want to eat good food, so they have to eat good food continuously for a few days, but their stools don’t work and they get a fever and cough when they accumulate food.
It is not very realistic to completely avoid recurrent coughs, but it is possible to reduce their occurrence by paying attention to the following matters.
1. It is best to stay home when you are sick and not go to school or kindergarten with an illness.
2. When you first recover from illness, go to less or no crowded public places, and do not eat or eat less meat and fish.
3. Drink more water and have a bowel movement every day.
Not enough treatment for allergic cough or asthma?
Many parents are still apprehensive about the hormonal component of nebulizer treatment and always reduce or stop the medication on their own after the cough has subsided. If your child is diagnosed with allergic cough or wheezing bronchitis or asthma, your doctor will give nebulizer inhalation treatment. This treatment often lasts for a long time, and sometimes it is necessary to continue the nebulizer treatment for a while after the cough symptoms are completely relieved.
If the medication is stopped as soon as the cough is relieved, it is easy to cause a recurrent cough that does not heal: i.e., the cough stops nebulizing just a little bit, and the cough worsens soon after listening to the nebulization and nebulizing again. In fact, the cough will be prolonged for a longer period of time and the nebulized inhaled medication will instead be more.
How to avoid the occurrence of.
Do not decide to stop the medication on your own, but reduce and stop the medication under the guidance of your doctor. Start nebulized inhalation treatment when coughing and asthma attacks, and it is better to follow up once every 3 days and ask the doctor to guide the medication.
Encounter with irritants.
It is common to encounter clinical situations in which a child’s cough is apparently improving and the illness is thought to be cured, but the child’s cough suddenly worsens again and coughs very frequently, and the parents do not understand the cause and become more worried and nervous.
What are the factors that may cause a cough to ease and then suddenly worsen?
1. Cold air.
A cough relief that is stimulated by dry, cold air when going outdoors, especially on windy days, often induces a very violent cough. This is especially likely to happen in children with sensitive airways or first-time asthma.
In this case, if you take your child outside, it is best to wear a mask to avoid the direct and strong stimulation of the cold air.
2. Strenuous exercise.
Your child has just about recovered from a cough, and after holding it at home for several days, he or she goes out for an hour of crazy running and plays basketball, and then comes back at night and coughs incessantly.
When the child has just recovered from the disease, do not allow the child to immediately carry out more strenuous exercise, do not rush the child to quickly resume sports courses such as fast running, soccer, skiing, ice skating, etc.. Outdoor sports can, need to be gradual.
3. Newly purchased winter clothes.
If a child’s cough suddenly worsens and no other possible triggering factors can be found, and it so happens that the child or adult has a new winter coat, this winter coat is a very suspicious factor.
4. Plush toys.
Or toys with a smell are often the culprit of cough inducing oh.
5, humidifier.
The use of humidifiers at home in winter is very common, but some humidifiers spray out water mist containing fine particles is the cause of cough induced. Pay attention to the choice of humidifier, the choice of water quality, the cleanliness of the humidifier. Improper use of humidifiers is harmful.