Children with bronchitis may experience severe coughing. Coughing can make children very uncomfortable, even coughing until their faces turn red and ears turn red. Parents will be very anxious when they see it. So what should I do if I have bronchitis and cough in children?
1、 Western medicine treatment of bronchitis in infants and young children
If the baby's bronchitis is milder, medication can be taken, but if the effect is not good within 1-2 days, intravenous infusion should be administered. At the same time, some small folk remedies can also be combined, such as using pear and Sichuan scallop with phlegm and rock sugar, or adding honey without phlegm, and boiling water together to drink, which will have a certain therapeutic effect. Regularly feed water and pay attention to observation.
If it's serious, it's best to see a doctor. Bronchitis needs to be treated with antibiotics. If coughing is obvious, it's best to control the infusion, pay attention to body temperature, and drink plenty of water.
Infantile bronchitis refers to a clinical symptom secondary to respiratory infections or some acute respiratory infectious diseases. The cause is various bacteria or viruses, or co infections. The onset of the disease can be mild or acute, and most cases first present with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection. Coughing is the main manifestation, starting with dry cough, followed by phlegm. If it is a bacterial infection, yellow phlegm can be vomited.
2、 Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy for Infantile Bronchitis
This disease is called exogenous cough in traditional Chinese medicine. Due to different pathogenic factors, it is clinically divided into wind cold cough, wind heat cough, and solid heat asthma. The treatment mainly focuses on dispelling wind and dispelling cold, clearing heat and promoting lung function, reducing heat and relieving asthma. It can be treated based on clinical syndrome differentiation.
1. Wind cold cough: characterized by sudden coughing, rapid and frequent coughing, thin phlegm, nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, itching or accompanied by headache, chills or no fever, slightly white coating, and floating pulse. Treat with Xin Wen Jie Biao, dispel cold and cough. Commonly used Xingsu San with modifications.
Prescription examples: 6g almond, 3g Su Ye, 9g Qianhu, 6g semi compound, 6g burdock seeds, and 3 slices of ginger.
2. Wind heat cough: cough is not pleasant, phlegm is mainly yellow and viscous, throat is red and mouth is dry, nose is blocked and yellow nose flows, or accompanied by fever and sweating, tongue coating is slightly yellow and white, and pulse is floating. Treat with Xin Liang to relieve symptoms, promote lung function and relieve cough. Commonly used mulberry chrysanthemum drinks with modifications.
3. Real heat wheezing: In addition to the above symptoms, the child has a high fever and is accompanied by wheezing and holding. The treatment aims to promote lung function, reduce phlegm, lower stress, and alleviate asthma. Commonly used Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang with modifications.
Prescription examples: 3g ephedra, 6g almond, 15g gypsum, 3g licorice, 3g indigo naturalis, 6g perilla seed, 9g radish seed. Other drugs can be added according to the condition. 1-2 flavors can be selected: when the surface pathogen is severe, add 9g chrysanthemum and 15g fresh reed root; Add 6g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 9g of Silver Flower, and 9g of Forsythia suspensa during thermogravimetric analysis; Add 9g of Qianhu or Baibu when coughing heavily; When wheezing heavily, choose to add 6g of Yujin, 9g of Ginkgo biloba, or 15g of raw ochre; When there is excessive phlegm, add 9g of Tengzi and 9g of Renlou.
This article introduces the Western and traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods for pediatric bronchitis. If a child has cough, it is best to choose these treatment methods for treatment. In fact, as long as you persist in treating bronchitis in children, you can still recover quickly.
