The child coughs for more than a month - nothing helps

Many parents are familiar with the situation when you treat a child cough for a month or longer, and all to no avail - nothing helps. First of all, one should understand that cough alone is not a disease, but only one of its symptoms. Therefore, it is necessary to treat, in the first place, the ailment that provoked the appearance of a cough. But this is in the worst case. Sometimes an impassable cough is a consequence of inhaling "bad" air.

What to do?

In any case, if the child constantly coughs and does not help, it is necessary to completely examine it to exclude the presence of any diseases: to pass a clinical blood test, to check the Mantoux reaction, to consult a pediatrician, a phthisiatrist, a pulmonologist. It is noteworthy that many of the diseases that gave rise to cough, many do not guess. For example, one of the stages of ascariasis is the passage of worm larvae through the lungs - this is often the reason that the child constantly coughs during the off-season and nothing helps. Also more than 8 weeks of the baby can "torment" a cough caused by a pertussis stick. It is noteworthy that even grafted babies are not 100% protected against this infection, but they can have atypical disease - in a lighter form without a spasmodic cough. At the same time, it is possible to establish the diagnosis only after laboratory analysis, for which a swab from the throat is taken.

But still, most often a cough in a child for a month or more, in which nothing helps, is a consequence of the transferred ARVI. In this case, after a few days of drug treatment, a productive cough should be obtained, and then - stop giving medicines, replacing them with a massage and a warm drink.

Causes of protracted cough, not related to the disease

If a child coughs for more than a month and nothing helps, maybe it just does not fit the microclimate in the apartment: it's hot, stuffy, dusty. In this case, keeping the cleanliness and freshness in the room will solve the problem. Daily ventilate the room where the baby is playing and sleeping, wash floors, wipe the dust, change bed linen more often. To enrich the air with oxygen, use houseplants, and to increase humidity - the humidifier.

If a child coughs for more than a month and does not help, it probably uses a little liquid, and as a result suffers from dry mouth. In this case, abundant drinking of water, compotes, milk will help.

If the child continues to cough for more than two months and at the same time nothing helps, the cause may be tobacco smoke or an allergy to the pet's coat. In this case, everything is simple. Until you stop smoking in the apartment or do not get rid of a pet - a cough in the child will not work.