How to tell whether a child's cough is lung heat or lung cold?

Hello. In Chinese medicine, it is necessary to distinguish whether children cough with lung heat or lung cold. One of the main symptoms of lung heat cough is repeated cough, which is often accompanied by aversion to cold and fever, cough and chest pain, scanty and sticky sputum, dyspnea, dry mouth and throat, thin yellow tongue coating and slippery pulse.

If the child coughs with lung cold, then it may be a runny nose, which makes him feel cold, and makes the cold evil hurt his lungs and cause cough. Its symptoms are white complexion, excessive phlegm and thin phlegm. The treatment of these two cold symptoms is also different.

If it belongs to lung heat, it is mainly to treat children with fever. If it is lung heat cough, it is necessary to prevent children from developing bronchitis and pneumonia, so children should be treated with drugs such as Qingfei Granule, Amoxicillin Capsule and Zimaixing.

Precautions:

It must be noted that no matter whether the child has a cough due to lung heat or lung cold, it is necessary to give the child plenty of water, which will alleviate the symptoms of a cold. If it is lung cold, it is recommended to take Chinese medicine to treat the child.