How to treat mycoplasma cough in children

Mycoplasma cough in children can generally be treated with antibiotics and bronchodilators. If necessary, drugs such as salbutamol can be inhaled by nebulization, or a Chinese medicine prescription consisting of roasted ephedra, gypsum, and scutellaria can be taken with water, combined with physical therapy. In addition, dietary conditioning can be strengthened, especially eating more foods such as rock sugar and snow pear, and the child should be allowed to rest more.

If a child is infected with mycoplasma, it will cause symptoms such as coughing and expectoration. If it is not effectively treated and cared for, the cough will often persist, and in severe cases there will even be severe coughing symptoms, which will affect the child's normal life and sleep, so it must be taken seriously. So how to treat mycoplasma cough in children?
1. How to treat mycoplasma cough in children
1. Western medicine therapy <br/>When children are infected with mycoplasma, they usually need to take spiramycin, leucomycin and mecocycline for treatment. At the same time, macrolide antibiotics such as azithromycin tablets can be used as appropriate. If the cough and asthma symptoms are more serious, bronchodilators such as aminophylline tablets need to be taken. If necessary, nebulized albuterol can be inhaled. In addition, when there is a fever and a lot of sputum, Anrui Ke and Bisuoping can also be taken.
2. Chinese medicine therapy <br/>Chinese medicine can effectively relieve cough and asthma, resolve phlegm and relieve cough in the treatment of mycoplasma infection. At the same time, it can regulate the body's immunity and prevent re-infection. Specifically, you can use a prescription composed of Chinese herbal medicines such as roasted ephedra, raw gypsum, scutellaria, apricot kernel, beam dry, cicada shell, bombyx batryticatus, peucedanum and adenophora, and decoct it in water every morning and evening.
3. Physical therapy <br/>Physical therapy can be used for mycoplasma infection in children, mainly using infrared spectrum therapy device, light therapy device and low-frequency vibration electromagnetic therapy device, which can promote the elimination of infection, but can only be used as an auxiliary therapy.
2. How to treat mycoplasma cough in children
1. Dietary adjustment <br/>Parents are advised to prepare some dietary recipes for their children. The more effective ones include rock sugar and snow pear water, white radish soup and cabbage root water. At the same time, sugarcane juice can be squeezed and fed to the baby, which can play a certain role in relieving cough and asthma.
2. Pay more attention to rest . Since coughing attacks at night will affect normal sleep, parents should let the children get more rest, preferably a nap at noon, to avoid further aggravation of the condition.