Recurrent respiratory infections are one of the common diseases in pediatrics, which are characterized by recurrent respiratory infections, including upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, and pneumonia in children per unit of time, mainly invading infants and school-age term children.
It is common between the ages of 2 and 6. In Chinese medicine, these children are called “susceptible children” or “recurrent children”.
I. Etiology
In Chinese medicine, this disease belongs to the category of “deficiency evidence”. When children’s external function is weakened and the lung guard is not properly regulated and external evil invades, they are susceptible to the onset of the disease; if they are weak, the guard is not solid, and if they are not cautious, they will have fever after blowing wind and getting cold. In the case of endowment
In the case of deviations and disorders of endowment, it is easiest for internal and external factors to combine and cause morbidity.
Western medicine believes that the causes of recurrent respiratory tract infections are mainly related to low humoral and cellular immune function in children; lack of trace elements; improper feeding, picky eating; improper care, too little or too much clothing; keeping pets, repeated exposure to allergens; and air pollution.
Second, clinical manifestations
Most children with recurrent respiratory infections have the following clinical features.
1. Obesity and body weakness, excessive sweating and spontaneous sweating;
2.Sluggish food and irregular bowel movements;
3. Recurrent attacks, thinness and weakness.
4, yellowish face, muscle relaxation, etc.
Treatment
Western medicine treatment of recurrent respiratory tract infection remains to be observed. Nowadays, levamisole, ketotifen nucleotide, kartrans and gammaglobulin are generally given to prevent and treat the disease. Chinese medicine has some advantages in the treatment of these diseases. According to the evidence of the child’s disease, the treatment methods of tonifying the lungs, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the kidneys, together with the methods of stopping sweating and laxative, can achieve the effect of systemic regulation.
Fourth, conditioning.
1.Strengthening physical fitness: appropriate physical exercise.
2, keep warm: increase and decrease clothing at the right time.
3, regular feeding, reduce the intake of snacks: eat more beneficial food such as yam to strengthen the spleen.
4.Living a regular life, combining work and rest.
5.Minimize contact between children and pets and flowers to avoid infection.
6.Clean the house frequently: remove garbage, dust, and bedding is often dried.