Autumn is the season of high incidence of cough, especially for children who are in the stage of physical development. If children cough for a long time, and the general cough medicine has no obvious effect, experts suggest that they should go to the hospital in time.

It is often asked, autumn is not hot or cold, autumn is high, why easy to cough?
There are three reasons: first, in autumn people often feel dry mouth and itchy skin. People in the hot summer, excessive perspiration, easy to hurt body fluid consumption gas, if not pay attention to physical conditioning, into the autumn dry season, cause cough, common due to virus and bacteria caused by upper respiratory tract infection.
Second, autumn is prone to allergic diseases. Due to the lack of maturity of children's respiratory tract mucosa, there are many kinds, high density and large quantity of inhaled allergens floating in the air in autumn. For example, the pollen phase of herbaceous plants and Artemisia plants in northern China is mostly in early autumn, and the seed pollen mostly appears in late autumn. Under the action of allergens, allergic rhinitis, cough, asthma and other diseases are most likely to recur.
Third, the climate in autumn is hot and cold, and the temperature difference between morning and night is large, so it is easy to catch a cold. Cold is an important cause of cough.

Cough is not a bad thing for children
Cough is divided into dry cough and wet cough. Dry cough refers to the cough without phlegm, it is often irritating cough. Wet cough refers to cough with phlegm, cough to discharge secretion. Whether it is a dry cough or a wet cough, it is a defense mechanism of the human body. A child's cough first means that his defense ability is normal.
Those children who don't cough but get pneumonia have poor defense ability, because there are a lot of secretions in their lungs, but they can't cough out, so don't think that children's cough is a bad thing.
When children cough, the throat is red and swollen, at this time to see the situation, if the throat is inflamed, accompanied by bacterial infection, then you need to use antibiotics anti-inflammatory.
However, many times the cause of throat swelling is not bacterial infection, do not abuse antibiotics. At this time, we need to use drugs under the guidance of doctors.
02 mucosal damage, need to be repaired
The child coughs frequently, indicating that there is a problem with the respiratory tract mucosa, which is in a hypersensitive state and needs immediate repair.
Most of the time, children do not have a fever, but cough is serious, in fact, this is the airway mucosa is being repaired.
Fever is the infection of virus or bacteria. They attach to the surface of respiratory tract and stimulate the mucous membrane. At this time, the mucous membrane will secrete a secretion that can fight against virus and bacteria. So, fever is a process in which the body uses the immune system.
When the fever stops, it means that the virus and bacteria have been subdued by the immune system, and the replication of the virus and bacteria in the body is no longer continued, and the immune system of the human body has been dominant.
At this time, the nose, throat, trachea, bronchi and other parts of the mucosa began to discharge bacteria, so often children do not have a fever, but began to cough, secretions also increased.

Deep cough or clear cough
The cough is short and rapid
Shallow cough is usually in the throat, while deep cough is in the trachea, bronchus or lungs. It sounds like it comes from the chest. Shallow cough and deep cough have a relatively easy distinguishing feature, which is to see whether the sound of a cough is long or short. The frequency of a shallow cough is very fast and sounds very short, while the time of a deep cough is relatively long.
Phlegm, nasal mucus, shallow cough in the majority
Never use the amount of secretions to judge whether a child has a shallow cough or a deep cough. Because our whole respiratory system is secreting gland from nose, throat to trachea and lung. There are secretions in both shallow and deep cough. Often shallow cough will make us feel that the child's condition is more serious, phlegm, a cough will bring out some phlegm, and there is a lot of snot.
In fact, the situation is just the opposite. The child has a lot of phlegm and runny nose, which is a light cough, because the secretion of the upper respiratory tract coughs easily and the condition is not serious. And deep cough because of the lower part, children often do not have the ability to cough out phlegm, this time the disease is more serious.
No cough during the day, light cough at night
Another obvious way to judge is that if the child has a light cough, it is often rare to cough during the day, mainly with runny nose, but cough is more severe at night. This is because when the child is lying flat, the throat is in a low position, and the secretion in the nasal cavity cannot be discharged through the process of runny nose. It will flow back to the throat, stimulate the throat, cause cough, and make the child wake up at night.
Deep cough is the same cough regardless of day and night. Some children cough more heavily during the day and lighter at night, so children with deep cough can sleep better.

04 children cough, phlegm is the key
Treatment of cough, the key is not cough, but phlegm!
Because the secretion is very sticky, and there are many protein components in it. If these secretions are not discharged in the respiratory tract, the bacteria will attach to the sputum after they go in. At this time, the sputum becomes a good medium for rapid propagation of bacteria, leading to double infection, that is, secondary infection. Therefore, the main purpose of treatment is to remove phlegm!
After medication, let the secretion become thinner, so that it can be more easily discharged, not to give bacteria the opportunity to reproduce. If the secretion is less, the child will cough less, and the mucous membrane will be stimulated less. The secretion will be less and less, and the cough will stop slowly.

Xiao'er Kechuanling oral liquid is recommended by the national health and Family Planning Commission for children with influenza. Its ingredients include bitter almond, Trichosanthes, Radix Isatidis, honeysuckle, etc. it is a classic Chinese medicine preparation. It has the effects of dispersing the lung, clearing away heat, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. The oral liquid preparation is easier to absorb and is more suitable for children.