When is a chest cough dangerous in children?

Hearing how your child coughs, before you start worrying and try with all sorts of drugs to drown out a frightening symptom, remember: chest cough in children appears when there is something in the body that causes it. Therefore, it is always necessary to fight not with a symptom, but with a disease that provokes it.

Cases when a cough is dangerous, not so much. Let's look at them, first to understand what kind of phenomenon it is.

What is cough

Cough is a sharp exhalation, by which the body gets rid of mucus. And mucus, in turn, stands out in order to clear the bronchi and neutralize the bacteria and viruses that cause the inflammatory process. The used mucus is eliminated by means of cough.

But did something make her stand out? Here it is necessary to contact the pediatrician. Breast cough in children is not poisoning with cyanide, it is quite possible to wait for the doctor's arrival and his diagnosis. Therefore, do not rush to cure cough after listening to the advice of a friend. You are rendering the child's organism "a disservice".

How to treat cough in children

In the home medicine cabinet you need to have effective and harmless cough remedies for children: "Bromgexin", "Mukaltin", "Lazolvan", ammonia-anise drops, "Acetylcysteine". But! Do not try to immediately feed all this wealth of a child who coughed. Perhaps it is enough just to moisten the air in the room, so that the rending dry cough stops. And maybe you need to remove the woolen blanket or flowers that cause allergies.

When a cough becomes dangerous

By the nature of the cough, you can determine the causes that caused it. Listen, if the child is barking, dry and loud, then this is a symptom of inflammation of the larynx or trachea. A convulsive, reaching to vomiting - a sign of whooping cough. Bronchial asthma is accompanied by a cough against the background of wheezing. If there is blood in the sputum secreted by coughing, then this alarming symptom indicates the possibility of pulmonary tuberculosis. Remember, chest cough in children becomes dangerous if:

• He appeared suddenly and did not stop at all;
• Arises at night, attacks;
• Accompanied by wheezing, audible without a phonendoscope;
• When blood is coughing;
• The cough took a long form (lasting more than 3 weeks).

All this is the reason for immediate contact with a doctor and requires a thorough examination of the child by specialists.

How to help a child with a strong cough

If your baby, when eating or playing, suddenly coughed heavily, the most natural will be the parents' attempt to make sure that the small foreign body has got into its respiratory tract. Knock on the back, let me drink some water. But if after this case the child has frequent colds and even had pneumonia, then be sure to perform a checkup to avoid the risk of getting caught in the airway.

In other cases, during treatment, remember that to ease the painful chest cough in children can not only prescribed medications, but also regular air humidification in the room, airing the premises, increasing the amount of fluid that the child should drink. All this will help the phlegm to liquefy, it is easier to withdraw and, accordingly, the cough becomes less frequent, more productive and quite harmless.

Be healthy!