Cough is a common pediatric condition that can be seen in a wide range of diseases in infants and children. There are many different types of coughs, so which ones need to be taken seriously by parents? Parents can distinguish what problems a child may have based on the sound and characteristics of the cough, as well as the accompanying symptoms. 1, laryngitis If the child coughs with a cracking sound or barking sound, accompanied by hoarseness, inhalation of the throat whistle, whistle or chicken sound, and gradually aggravated, be alert to this may be a sign of laryngitis. 2, asthma coughing with wheezing in the throat, shortness of breath, expression of pain, irritability, especially at night coughing, will be suffocated to wake up, difficult to sleep, it is important to think about whether the child has asthma. 3, infectious diseases cough accompanied by runny nose, fever, nursery school, kindergarten companions of children with similar symptoms, should be thought of as a kind of infectious disease viral upper respiratory tract infections, and sometimes may be a kind of respiratory infectious diseases of the precursor symptoms, to seek medical attention to exclude. 4, allergic cough children cough at night than during the day, mostly dry cough with little sputum, no fever, the onset of most of the same season, antibiotic treatment is ineffective, often accompanied by eczema, allergic rhinitis and other allergies, then this cough may be allergic cough. 5, pneumonia The child cough accompanied by fever, poor mental health, loss of appetite, as well as shortness of breath, nasal agitation and cyanosis of the lips, then you should consider whether the child suffers from pneumonia. 6.Tuberculosis If your child has a dry cough, low fever in the afternoon, sweating at night, poor appetite, progressive weight loss or weight gain, and enlarged superficial lymph nodes and adhesions, you should think about whether your child has tuberculosis. 7, tracheal foreign body children at play or eating, suddenly choking and coughing, dyspnea, cyanosis, beware of whether the trachea into the foreign body. 8, whooping cough If a small baby coughing violently, and light in the morning and heavy in the evening, continue to cough more than a dozen, coughing violently when the face is red, suffocating, gasping for air, and finally the throat with the inhalation of the cockcrow-like tail, we must be careful whether the child suffers from whooping cough. 9, bronchiectasis children cough sputum, sometimes thick sputum, often hemoptysis or sputum with blood, repeated episodes, and even often suffered from the same part of the pneumonia, then you should think about whether the child has bronchiectasis.