Infant Cough Causes and types

1 cause of infant cough

@ User A: Generally speaking, causing the baby cough What are the reasons?

    A: baby cough for many reasons, and sometimes there will be a variety of causes while baby cough. Including infections (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, mycoplasma, chlamydia), allergies (food, inhalation of dust, cold air), foreign body inhalation to the bronchi, autoimmune diseases (pulmonary hemosiderosis disease), bronchiectasis, tumors.

@ User B: Infant cough is associated with other diseases do? What are the circumstances require to go to hospital?

    A: Most baby coughing or respiratory infections, some have complications, such as a viral upper respiratory tract infection, may be complicated by myocarditis, or otitis media. In rare cases: severe pneumonia may be complicated by heart failure. Diarrhea may also be complicated by encephalopathy, but in most cases children have no serious complications, after a short time to a full recovery. If the child mental appetite is affected, you should see a doctor.


@ User C: doctors Hello, My baby is often a cough phenomenon, every cough, she is very uncomfortable and will take a long time, I would like to ask a doctor, baby cough is what causes? Usually I should pay attention to what?

A: Coughing is the body's protective response, some people will become sensitive after a cold, cough for a long time tend to go situation. Usually after infection airway hyperresponsiveness will not last forever, growing over time, this enhanced protection reaction will gradually return to normal, generally do not need special treatment.

    Parents can make home care possible, keep indoor air circulation and warm and humid, and sometimes children because of this case go to a doctor, the doctor may prescribe according to the condition for "allergic" drugs or atomization, etc., which are possible.

    If this continued bad cough repeatedly, and even worsening trend, or the child has other new situation appears, we recommend you go to a professional pediatrician (preferably respiratory specialist) go face consultation to see if there may be other reasons. Because we did not check the child, not as a doctor in person to give you more accurate as medical advice. The so-called "network is not a doctor," I hope you can understand.

@ User D: My baby is often cough, but each is different, and sometimes more serious sometimes they cough few times, ask a doctor, what situation would cause the baby cough? Baby cough which situation I should take him to the hospital?

A: Hello, first of all, the reason should be clearly cough. Usually does not affect the daily life of cough (sleep, etc.) may, without medication. Care can keep the air moist degrees (application humidifier), proper drinking water helps respiratory expectoration.

@ User E: Baby No recent cold or other symptoms, but is coughing coughing so, why is it so? Coughing for no reason, ask a doctor, I want to take the baby to the hospital to see you?

A: no reason to cough to carefully analyze the reasons, such as whether there is inhaled foreign body is possible. In this case recommended to bring the baby to the hospital for examination to find out the cause, then before we talk further processing.

@ User F: Every time your baby will directly cause coughing lit, every cough should take a good long time to see the doctor to take medicine, but must be more than two weeks go, why be so hard baby cough cure it?

A: You said "lit" is also often speak of "a cold, sore throat," often accompanied by cough. Many baby in the cold better, throat "anti-inflammatory", and coughing will continue for some time, it is because the baby after a cold trachea increased sensitivity to stimulation factor, which we call "airway hyperresponsiveness", easy to cough, which states will continue for some time, so the baby's cough becomes "good slow."


2 types of infant cough

@ User: Dr. Hello, baby cough, sometimes with sputum, sometimes not, these two are not the same as you cough? That difference should eat what medicine do?

A: Press the cough without sputum and phlegm cough can be divided into dry and wet cough.

    Respiratory secretions irritate baby cough, cough action allows secretions from the airway, but this time will contain cough sputum, than if the discharge, does not always have phlegm cough. Respiratory tract infections are the most common causes of childhood cough due to the treatment of the major reasons that caused the baby cough, cough if the baby is not heavy, smooth breathing, mental reaction is good, with improved cure diseases caused by coughing, coughing usually disappear on their own; If your baby is coughing frequently, affecting sleep and eating, medication under the guidance of a doctor can control cough.

@ User: Dr. Hello, I would like to ask cough is not partakers of many types? There are points of the season it? Cause baby cough every season is different and you? The situation is not different, eat different medicine do?

    A: According to cough disease can be divided into acute and chronic cough, cough, cough without sputum or based on sputum divided into dry and wet cough cough can also be divided by the number of single mono cough cough and cough repeatedly strings, these are described the characteristics of cough.

    Cough, respiratory disease is most common in different seasons due to climate and environmental changes, the susceptibility of children suffering from respiratory diseases and incentives will be different, for example, in the winter season, often appear influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus infection prevalence, children susceptible to respiratory infection cough; winter cold, spring and summer pollen and other stimuli, some children prone to allergic predisposition or wheezing cough; during the summer because some infants may be prolonged exposure to cold air environments, or sweating without timely change clothes, appeared cold and cough after a respiratory infection. Different circumstances require different causes for treatment.