Children often cough repeatedly. What diseases should children be careful about when coughing for a long time?

In fact, there are many reasons for cough, not only involving the respiratory system, but also including otolaryngology, digestive system and other diseases. We usually cough for a month, with cough as the main manifestation, and there is no obvious lesion on chest X-ray examination, which is called chronic cough. Because there are few other accompanying symptoms in children with chronic cough, X-ray examination is normal, and the rate of misdiagnosis and mistreatment is quite high. Many children will be misdiagnosed as interstitial pneumonia or bronchitis. Liu Haiyan, Department of Pediatrics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi Jiaotong University

Non-infectious cough mainly occurs in allergic cough, so be careful, because allergic cough may cause asthma. Allergic cough is characterized by no fever, long duration and easy recurrence. He often coughs at night or in the early hours of the morning, and it gets worse after catching a cold. Antibiotic treatment is ineffective for this cough. To detect allergens, choose anti-allergic drugs correctly, use bronchodilators to relieve cough, and avoid contact with allergens in daily life. In addition, be sure to keep your child warm.

Cough after infection

Cough is generally associated with respiratory diseases. If you pay attention to the doctor's prescription diagnosis, you will notice that what we usually call a cold is "upper respiratory tract infection". Respiratory symptoms such as cough, as common symptoms of colds, usually appear after 2-3 days of fever, and the symptoms reach the heaviest on the 2 nd and 3 rd days after coughing, and then the cough is relieved and the condition is improved. Sometimes fever and cough occur at the same time.

Many parents have experienced their children's long-term cough, and it is particularly uncomfortable to see their children using a lot of "anti-inflammatory drugs" and even many advanced drugs when their cough is uncontrollable. This chronic cough is called chronic cough. At present, it is believed that chronic cough lasts for more than 4 weeks.