What’s wrong with your child’s cough with yellow phlegm?

Children coughing, coughing yellow sputum, Western medicine generally consider the upper respiratory tract infection caused by inflammation of the lungs. In traditional Chinese medicine, there are generally wind-heat against the lungs, the lungs are not purged caused by wind-heat against the lungs evidence, phlegm-heat congestion, the lungs are not purged, caused by phlegm-heat and lungs evidence. Cough, cough yellow sputum, need to control the infection, with antibiotic drugs, cough and phlegm drugs, symptomatic treatment. Chinese medicine generally use Sangju drink plus reduction, with the wind, clearing heat, lung, cough effect. For phlegm-heat-concentrated lung syndrome, generally use Qing Jin Hua Phlegm Tang with addition and subtraction, which has the effect of clearing heat and moistening the lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. The main symptoms of Wind-Heat Lung Symptom are severe cough, thick breath, hoarse cough, sore throat, unpleasant cough and phlegm, thick or yellow phlegm, sweating when coughing, accompanied by yellow nasal discharge and other symptoms. The symptoms of phlegm-dampness in the lungs are coughing, shortness of breath, phlegm sound in the phlegm, phlegm is thick and sticky, coughing phlegm is not refreshing, there is a fishy smell or there is blood in the phlegm, hidden pain when coughing, red face, body heat and so on.