There are limited varieties of safe and effective antitussive and expectorant drugs that can be provided for children, and Xiaoer Zhike syrup is the main drug for treating children's cough and expectoration. Many parents of children believe that children's cough syrup is safer and more secure than tablets and injections. Therefore, when children catch a cold or cough with fever, parents go to the drugstore to buy one or two bottles of syrup for children to take. Some parents of children are eager to treat diseases, and they are more casual when giving cough syrup to children. Some children's parents are careless, and they don't pay attention to the instructions after buying the medicine. When children cough frequently, they often increase the amount at will or increase the number at random. Parents of individual children are even worse, as long as children cough, let them drink syrup.

In fact, children's cough syrup is not absolutely safe and can be used at will. Like other drugs, parents need to pay attention to their indications, contraindications and precautions, and parents need to master the dosage and frequency of medication, otherwise they will have such and such side effects as other drugs. For example, some children's cough syrup contains licorice, and some contain codeine. These cough syrups for children will become dependent if they are taken for a long time. In addition, some children's cough syrup contains phenazine or promethazine, which can cause drowsiness and slow response in children, sometimes adversely affecting normal treatment.

Therefore, medical experts pointed out that parents should not be too casual in giving cough syrup to children. They should pay attention to grasping the indications, dosage and interval, and pay attention to contraindications and side effects. In addition, we should also pay attention to distinguish the characteristics of cough syrup in order to better treat the symptoms. The key is to understand the cough nature of cough syrup before giving it to children, including phlegm and no phlegm, more phlegm and less phlegm. Generally speaking, for frequent dry cough or cough with little phlegm, cough-relieving syrup is mainly used, such as syrup containing phenamine; For those with excessive phlegm, the syrup with expectorant as the main ingredient is selected, so as not to cause the sputum to cough up and stay in the respiratory tract, causing infection or aggravating infection.