1. How to treat cough in TCM
1. Lung-heat cough: Lung-heat cough is generally characterized by red cough face, sticky phlegm, sore throat, dry throat, constipation and other symptoms. And children usually like to eat greasy food. At this time, we need to choose traditional Chinese medicines such as ephedra, gypsum, licorice, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, almond, etc. The commonly used Chinese patent medicine is sunflower brand oral liquid for children with lung heat and cough, which is based on Maxing Ganshi decoction and Baihu decoction. It is a representative medicine for treating children with lung heat cough and has better effects of clearing lung heat and stomach heat.
2. Wind-heat cough: This type of cough is characterized by yellow and thick phlegm, fever, runny nose, and thirst for water. At this time, it is best to choose traditional Chinese medicines with the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, dispersing lung and relieving cough, such as mint, mulberry leaves, scutellaria baicalensis, peucedanum, chrysanthemum and forsythia. Commonly used drugs are generally based on the prescription Sangjuyin.
3. dry lung cough: dry cough usually occurs in autumn, characterized by less phlegm, dry nose, mouth and throat, and hoarseness. Commonly selected Chinese herbal medicines include Scrophularia, Ophiopogon japonicus and Rehmannia glutinosa. In addition to choosing some drugs, lung dryness and cough can also be combined with ingredients such as Sydney, white radish and lily, which can moisten the lungs, relieve cough and dry.
4. Cough due to wind-cold: The most typical symptoms of cough due to wind-cold are white phlegm, chills and stuffy nose. For the treatment of cough due to wind-cold, it is advisable to choose traditional Chinese medicines with wind-dispelling and cold-dispelling effects, such as Chinese patent medicines containing almond, perilla, peucedanum, platycodon grandiflorum and Pinellia ternata, such as Tongxuan Lifei Pill.
2. Ways to relieve the baby's cough
1. Inhale the baby with warm and humid air: the appropriate room temperature is 2℃, and the indoor humidity should be maintained at 6% ~ 65%. It is best to hang a hygrometer in the room for easy observation. Dry in winter and spring, use humidifier to humidify or dry clothes and towels indoors. When you have a severe cough and phlegm in your throat, let your child inhale steam or sit in the bathroom with your child, turn on hot water and let warm and humid steam enter the airway.
2. Hot drinks to relieve cough: Drinking more warm drinks can make sticky phlegm thin and easy to cough up. It is best to let children drink warm boiled water or warm milk, rice soup, etc., and also to feed children fresh juice mixed with warm boiled water. Juice should be apple juice or pear juice with less irritation, and citrus juice such as orange juice and grapefruit juice should be avoided.
3. Raise the baby's head at night: secretions from the nose and sinuses will flow to the throat when the child is lying flat, causing itching in the throat, which will aggravate the cough at night, while raising the head can reduce the backward drainage of nasal secretions. You can put a pillow under the baby's mattress to raise his head position.
4. Apply hot water bag to relieve cough: Applying hot water bag to the back can relieve the symptoms of cough. Fill the hot water bottle with hot water at about 4℃, wrap it with a thin towel, and then apply it to the back near the lungs, which can speed up the cold and stop the cough quickly.
5. Help the baby cough: If the baby coughs when awake, you can pick him up, touch his back and pat him gently. Cough when you fall asleep. You can raise your upper body and lie on your side, and put a cushion or pillow on your child's shoulder and back. Let the baby sleep alternately on the left and right sides, which is conducive to the discharge of respiratory secretions.
Don't lie down and sleep immediately after feeding a cough baby, so as to prevent aspiration caused by spitting milk due to cough. If you have inhaled and coughed by mistake, you should immediately change your head to a low position, pat your back, encourage you to cough, and cough up the inhalation.