Coughing is a very troublesome matter for both adults and children, as persistent coughing can lead to other illnesses. Therefore, parents are anxious about their baby's cough symptoms. The topic I'm going to share with you today is about babies coughing. Can babies cough and get pneumonia?
Firstly, it should be noted that the formation of pneumonia is not caused by persistent coughing. Coughing itself is a reflex reaction of the body's self-protection, which can eliminate some bacteria and microorganisms during the process of expectoration. Inflammation of the respiratory tract can produce purulent secretions, which are excreted from the body through coughing. Coughing is just one of the symptoms of pneumonia, which is accompanied by other symptoms such as fever, chest pain, etc. In more severe cases, there may be symptoms of blood in sputum.
In most cases, pneumonia is caused by pathogen infection, which leads to inflammation in the lungs and ultimately results in pneumonia. This type of pneumonia looks very similar to a cold, but it recovers slower than a cold. Its main symptoms are coughing and fever, but the illness lasts for a long time and is not easy to improve. Another situation is that the child's resistance is relatively weak. At the beginning, it is just a common cold, but due to environmental factors, secondary infections occur, which can transform into pneumonia.
However, regardless of the above situation, it is due to prolonged coughing that leads to pneumonia. Coughing is actually a self-protection behavior of the body, and coughing itself does not cause pneumonia. Whether coughing is treated in a timely manner is actually not related to causing pneumonia, but if pneumonia is cured, the cough caused by pneumonia will also be cured.
