We note at once that coughing is an absolutely natural and normal physiological phenomenon. You do not need to treat it. This is a reflex, allowing to ensure the patency of the airways. To eliminate cough, it is necessary to identify and neutralize the cause that caused it. However, it happens that the disease seems to be over, and the child has a continuous cough for a month or more, which does not allow you to sleep, eat, or play. The child suffers, becomes capricious and irritable. In this situation, parents need to constantly monitor the baby. If there are signs of a disease such as apathy, fever, diarrhea, drowsiness or a runny nose, the doctor should be assigned to identify the causes of prolonged cough in children who will prescribe competent treatment.
Causes of incessant coughing
If a child does not have a prolonged cough after a sore throat, pharyngitis , sinusitis , SARS or laryngitis, this may indicate a disease that is not completely cured. In the early days, the cough is dry, irritating, and after a few days it is already wet. With laryngitis, he barking, the child's voice becomes husky. In addition, an impassable cough in a child is a sign of diseases also of the lower respiratory tract. Be sure to check if the baby is ill with tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumonia or tuberculosis! By the way, in such cases, a constant cough in a child is usually prolonged and moist. After all, the body tries to pull out mucus from the respiratory tract. If the cough is loud enough, and the pain is noted in the chest, then, most likely, the kid is sick with tracheitis, and with bronchitis cough is usually wet, with wheezing.
A prolonged dry cough in a child is often associated with non-infectious diseases. Its cause may be narrowing of the bronchi, that is, bronchospasm. They occur with obstructive bronchitis, bronchial asthma and allergies. In addition, dry cough provokes and fluid that has got into the respiratory tract, and foreign small objects swallowed crumbs. However, the most painful and exhausting is the dry cough accompanying the flu.
Another reason for prolonged wet or dry cough in a child is worms. The worm larvae forming in the lung tissue irritate the respiratory tract, provoking a persistent cough. In this case, the larvae cough into the mouth, the child swallows them, continuing the life cycle of the parasites.
Much less often a protracted cough is associated with infection with chlamydia or Candida fungi, while in newborns it is sometimes noted that there is cough in the presence of cytomegalovirus.
Combating cough
If the drugs prescribed by the doctor are ineffective and the baby continues to cough, it is necessary to conduct a survey in the laboratory. It is possible that the children's body, weakened by the disease, can not cope with pneumocysts and mycoplasma independently. Quality of life crumbs worse, and lack of
If a child has pathogenic microorganisms, then home treatment methods are likely to be ineffective. For this purpose there are antibacterial medications of a new generation. 95% - this is the effectiveness of treatment with their help.
It is somewhat easier to eliminate a cough of allergic origin. To do this, it is enough to minimize contact of the baby with aggressive allergens, which cause this cough.
Each, as it sometimes may seem, "non-serious" illness should not be left without attention. Especially when it comes to toddlers. With a cough it is necessary to fight, eliminating its cause and preventing the development of unpleasant consequences.