Do children with white sputum and no cough or fever need medication?

Children who have simple white sputum, no cough or fever, there may be a mild upper respiratory tract infection, can be observed for a week, if the white sputum continues to be unrelieved, it may be a moderate to severe upper respiratory tract infection, the need to use cephalosporin and other antibiotic drugs. 1. Do not need to take medication: when children appear white sputum, indicating the presence of upper respiratory tract infection, not accompanied by fever, cough and other discomforts, you can adjust lifestyle habits, enhance immunity, temporarily do not need to take medication, such as going to bed early, getting up early, drink more hot water, moderate exercise, and so on. 2. Need to take medication: If the symptoms of white sputum continue to be unrelieved for more than a week, consider that there is a bacterial infection, and you need to take oral antibiotics for anti-infective treatment, such as cephalosporin and so on. When the symptoms of children’s white sputum aggravated or accompanied by cough and other discomfort, need to go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to improve the examination, to take a standardized way of treatment. Note that cephalosporin such drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid unauthorized use of drugs.