Many new mothers are not able to make a correct judgment about what disease is causing their baby’s cough. Baby’s cough is a protective respiratory reflex action. Coughing is caused when foreign bodies, irritating gases, and secretions in the respiratory tract stimulate receptors in the respiratory mucosa, and impulses are transmitted to the medullary cough center through afferent nerve fibers, causing a cough. Let’s take a look at the various causes of coughing and how to deal with them. I. Cough caused by upper respiratory tract infection Symptoms: Mostly an irritating cough, day and night, not accompanied by shortness of breath or shortness of breath. The baby is drowsy, has a runny nose, sometimes has a fever, but the body temperature does not exceed 38°C. The baby has poor spirits and a poor appetite, and the symptoms disappear after sweating to reduce the fever, but the cough still persists for 3-5 days. To stop coughing: Keep the room air moist by using a humidifier, hanging wet towels, mopping the floor with water or putting a basin of water in the room to increase the air humidity. If your baby’s cough and nasal congestion symptoms persist for a week and still do not improve, you should take your baby to the doctor as soon as possible. II. Cough caused by lower bronchitis Symptoms: Bronchitis usually follows a cold and is caused by a bacterial infection. The cough is phlegmy, sometimes violent, and usually more frequent at night with a coughing and wheezing sound. The worst coughing time is two hours after the baby goes to sleep, or around 6:00 am. To stop coughing: You should go to the hospital for treatment and take pediatric cough medicines. In addition, babies should not eat foods that are too sweet or too salty, as this will aggravate the cough at night. C. Cough caused by pharyngitis Symptoms: hoarse voice, pus phlegm, and the little that can be coughed up is mostly swallowed. Larger babies will complain of a sore throat, and babies who cannot express themselves often show irritability and refusal to feed, and make an “empty, empty” sound when coughing. Cough relief: Mothers should not solve this cough on their own at home, but should promptly seek medical attention and ask the doctor for a clear diagnosis and symptomatic treatment. Allergic cough Symptoms: Persistent or recurrent violent coughing, mostly in paroxysms, which is more obvious in the morning and worsens when the baby is active or crying. The cough is more severe at night than during the day and lasts for a long time, usually up to 3 months. Allergic cough mostly occurs during the pollen season, or when the weather turns cold. To stop coughing: Try not to let your child catch a cold in general, and see a doctor as soon as an allergic cough appears to find the allergen and make a clear diagnosis to stop it from developing into asthma. V. Choking cough caused by inhalation of foreign bodies Symptoms: If the baby did not previously have symptoms such as coughing, runny nose, sneezing or fever, suddenly appear violent choking cough, while breathing difficulties, bad face, especially the smaller children, it is possible that the foreign body into the mouth, accidentally into the throat or trachea caused. Coughing: Parents should encourage their children to cough after inhaling a foreign body, and never pick at it with their hands in their mouths, so that the foreign body does not get deeper and deeper and block the airway completely. If you don’t cough up something and your baby coughs or wheezes repeatedly, it means that the foreign body has reached the lower respiratory tract and should be sent to the hospital immediately to remove it in time. Warm tip: If the baby only coughs and coughs up sputum, without the manifestation of bronchitis or pneumonia, you can use nebulized inhalation treatment without oral medication. If there is more sputum, you can also add phlegm-forming drugs to the nebulizer solution to dilute the sputum through nebulization, which is more conducive to the discharge of sputum. It is necessary to use anti-inflammatory drugs (antibiotics) only when it is clear that the inflammation is caused by bacterial infection, and it is useless to take anti-inflammatory drugs for viral infection caused by cold, etc.