What to do if your child coughs badly while sleeping

Coughing is a common symptom in children. It may be caused by a variety of factors such as internal heat or lung heat and dryness. However, some parents have found that their children only cough severely during sleep, and the cough is much less severe during the day. So what can we do to relieve the severe cough of children when they sleep?

1. Treatment with Western medicine <br/>When children have severe coughs at night, they can take centrally acting antitussive drugs, such as Kebiqing tablets, Kemifen tablets and Ketaling tablets, and if necessary, a certain dose of cefotaxime tablets, erythromycin tablets and amoxicillin and other antibiotics can be added. However, the side effects of these drugs are quite significant, so you must follow the doctor's advice and never take the drugs at will.
2. Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine <br/>In view of the serious side effects of Western medicine, it is generally recommended that children with coughs use Chinese patent medicines with the main effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough for conditioning treatment. Specifically, they can take snake gall and Fritillaria liquid, compound loquat paste and cough syrup, etc. If the cough is caused by bronchitis, children's phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving granules should be used instead.

3. Dietary adjustment <br/>There are many foods that can be used as both medicine and food, so patients can choose some of the foods that have the effect of relieving cough and moistening the lungs, such as lily, white fungus, lotus root, etc., and eat more snow pears and sugar cane as fruits. At the same time, they can also make dietary therapy and medicinal food recipes. The more effective ones include olive and white radish soup, rock sugar, snow pear and Sichuan Fritillary water, and cabbage and lotus root soup, etc., which can help relieve cough symptoms.

4. Strengthen care <br/>If a child coughs severely at night, parents should pay attention to some care. During the coughing attack, you can slightly raise the pillow and gently pat the lungs. This can reduce gastroesophageal reflux in the child. At the same time, the child should be allowed to rest in a side-lying position as much as possible. You can also use a hot water bottle or a hot towel to heat the back, which is close to the lungs. This can promote the improvement of the cough to a certain extent.