More than 90% of children's colds are caused by viral infections, often due to self-limiting diseases. If the child has a cold and simply coughs, we should see whether the child has a dry cough or phlegm. If the cough symptoms are not serious but dry cough, you can give your child some antitussive drugs, such as dextromethorphan hydrobromide, pholcodine or codeine. Pholcodine and codeine are central antitussive drugs, which are addictive, so you should not give your child too much. If the child coughs with phlegm, he can also be given drugs to remove phlegm, such as guaiacol glyceryl ether, acetylcysteine or ambroxol.

In addition to taking cough medicine, we should also drink more boiled water for our children, and pay attention to not giving them sweet or cold things, because it will aggravate their cough. If there is too much phlegm, meat food should also be properly controlled, because meat is easy to promote the production of phlegm. If children have symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose and sneezing besides coughing, they can also take some anti-allergic drugs orally, such as cetirizine hydrochloride or loratadine. If the child is still accompanied by symptoms of fever, you can also take paracetamol and huangnamin granules orally to relieve the symptoms.