How to treat wind-heat cough in children?

Children with wind-heat cough can take Western medicine for treatment, and the commonly used medicines are Kebiqing capsules and roxithromycin tablets. However, it is best to use traditional Chinese medicine, which should be based on the principle of expelling wind and clearing the lungs and dispersing phlegm. You can take Chinese patent medicines such as compound fresh bamboo sap oral liquid, or take mulberry and chrysanthemum decoction with water. In addition, you must strengthen dietary conditioning and maintain appropriate indoor humidity.

Wind-heat cough is one of the common types of coughs, and it occurs very frequently in children. Once a child suffers from wind-heat cough, he or she may have symptoms of persistent coughing. If it occurs at night, it will also affect normal sleep, so it is important to take the child to receive treatment in time. So how can children with wind-heat cough be cured?

1. How to treat wind-heat cough in children

1. Western medicine

When children cough, they can use cough suppressants and cough suppressants, such as Kebiqing capsules and Ketaling tablets. If there are symptoms of infection, antibiotics such as azithromycin tablets or roxithromycin tablets can be added.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chinese patent medicine

Children with wind-heat cough need to adhere to the principle of expelling wind and clearing the lungs and dispersing phlegm. Under the guidance of doctors, they can take Chinese patent medicines such as snake gall and Fritillaria liquid, Fritillaria loquat liquid, silver and yellow oral liquid, and compound fresh bamboo liquid oral liquid. In addition, they can also take monk fruit cough granules and children's cough syrup.

Chinese medicine prescription

Children can also receive conditioning treatment with Chinese herbal medicines decocted in water that have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing the lungs, and resolving phlegm and relieving cough. The first choice is mulberry and chrysanthemum drink, which is composed of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, almonds, reed roots, platycodon, forsythia and mint.

2. How to treat wind-heat cough in children

1. Diet adjustment

During the period of illness, parents can prepare some dietary recipes for their children to eat, which can nourish yin and moisten dryness, and relieve phlegm and cough. Specifically, they can make water chestnut and lily soup, bean curd and radish porridge, mulberry, chrysanthemum, houttuynia and chen kidney soup, or Sichuan Fritillary Stewed Pear. In addition, you can also eat more foods that moisten and clear the lungs, such as snow pear, sugar cane and white radish.

2. Maintain indoor humidity

Children may have dry and sore throats due to coughing, so it is necessary to pay attention to maintaining a certain humidity in the room. Especially at night, you can place a humidifier, and it is best to use a hygrometer to measure it, so that the throat area can be kept moist, which can help relieve adverse symptoms.