A child coughs a month - what to do?

Sometimes young mothers, faced with such a phenomenon as a protracted cough in children, do not know how to treat it. The confusion of parents leads also to the fact that, in the presence of parents, the temperature does not always rise; The cough is not of an infectious origin. Quite often, pediatricians also have difficulty in establishing the cause of its appearance.

What is a protracted cough?

Quite often, from mothers you can hear a complaint about the fact that their child coughs for a month, and they just do not know what to do and how to deal with it, because The treatment prescribed by the pediatrician does not work.

By lingering understand a cough that does not go more than 3 weeks. At the same time, his character is usually dry, i.e. After coughing, the child does not feel relief and a fit of coughing is repeated again.

How to get ahead of the cause of a protracted cough?

Before you start treatment for a protracted cough in children, you need to determine its cause accurately. The most common reason that a child coughs for a month is:

• localized infection ( otitis media, subacute sinusitis);
• allergic diseases (asthma);
• increased activity of the respiratory tract during the recovery period (the body tries to get rid of the infection by separating the sputum);
• presence of foreign bodies in the respiratory tract;
• gastroesophageal reflux (the transition of the contents of the stomach into the esophagus)

This situation, when a child coughs for more than a month, even at night, and there is no temperature, should not be left without parents' attention hoping that the cough will pass by itself.

Treatment of a protracted cough depends, first of all, on the cause of its appearance, i.e. Before proceeding to the therapeutic process, the physician must establish the cause exactly. So, in the first place, allergic reactions are excluded, for which a special sample is prescribed.

If the presence of such a cough is caused by an infection, then the appropriate drugs are used. Most often appointed, so-called expectorant drugs that promote the excretion of phlegm, which irritates the bronchi, causes a cough. An example of such may be Ambroxol, Carbocysteine. In addition, the mother herself is able to alleviate the condition of the baby, giving him more warm drink and conducting inhalations using baking soda.

In cases where cough is not associated with a violation of sputum discharge, the doctor prescribes antitussives: Tusuprex, Butamirate. However, it is worth remembering that all medications should be prescribed exclusively by a doctor who indicates both the multiplicity and the dosage of admission.