How can you tell if a child s cough is cold or hot?

A hot cough is mainly a dry cough without phlegm, on the contrary, it is mainly a cold cough.

For ordinary sense, we often only use drugs for some symptoms, such as your child's case, of course, it is mainly to stop mucus and cough (a good doll can), if you have a fever, you can take oral ibuprofen (such as Motrin, etc.) and acetaminophen (such as Tylenolin, etc.); Traditional Chinese medicine cooling preparations include children's antipyretic, Xinxuedan, etc., but it is best to have a certain amount of antiviral drugs, and safer drugs can choose Shuanghuanglian oral liquid (which has a good effect on slight cough, but must be scalded before giving it to children to avoid cold and stomach) and antiviral oral liquid. The child's liver and kidney function are not fully developed, so when encountering bacterial or viral infections or suspecting such signs, it is necessary to choose appropriate antibiotics or antiviral drugs in time. For example, fever, cough with phlegm, runny nose, etc.

In general, it is easy for children to have viral or bacterial infections, so it is best to prepare some antibiotics to prevent them from occurring. Amoxicillin (penicillin class I) or cefradine can be selected as a pediatric powder.

I hope mine gives you some hints.

A hot cough is a cough without an infection, such as bronchial allergies.

Cold cough is mostly non-sputum-free, or white sputum that is not easy to cough up. The cough will be worse at night, and the hot cough will have a lot of phlegm and yellow thickness, and there may be no phlegm but the cough will be coughed when you take a deep breath, which is caused by lung heat.

It is easy to cough at night, especially around 1 a.m. when the lungs are recuperating and detoxifying. To distinguish between hot and cold coughs, it is necessary to look at the tongue coating. White is cold, red is hot...

The main manifestations of hot cough are cough, difficult to cough with sputum, thick yellow thin sputum sticky, runny nose, or fever, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, dry stool, and yellow urine. The main manifestations of cold cough are cough, sputum white matter is thin and easy to cough up, or the sputum is foamy, runny nose, sneezing, can also be feverish, the tongue is light red, pale or white slippery, and the stool is normal or loose.

Children with fever and cough can eat some cool and moisturizing foods, such as stewed pears with Chuanbei, or boiled noodles with white radish, lily and white fungus lotus seed porridge, etc., which will help the recovery of the condition. You can also eat some spicy and sweet fruits, such as apples, watermelon, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, sugar cane, grapefruit and other fruits. However, it should not be consumed in excess, so as to avoid damaging the spleen and stomach and aggravating the condition.

Plain food can allow children to exercise more, enhance their own resistance, eat a light diet, and eat less sweet and salty food.

Ginger + brown sugar + garlic: The child suffers from a cold and cold, drinking warm ginger brown sugar water can play a very good role, if the child is also accompanied by a cough, you can add 2 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger brown sugar water and cook together, cook over low heat for 10 minutes, and boil the spicy taste of the garlic off, so that the child is willing to drink; Roast the oranges: Roast the oranges directly on low heat and turn them constantly until the peel is black and the heat is rising from the oranges.

Allow the oranges to cool for a while, peel off the peel and let your child eat warm orange petals. If it is a large orange, the child can eat 2 or 3 petals at a time, and if it is a small tribute orange, the child can eat one at a time. It is best to eat it with garlic water, 2 to 3 times a day.

Tangerines are warm and have the effect of dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. After eating roasted oranges, the amount of phlegm will be significantly reduced, the antitussive effect is very obvious, and the child is willing to eat it.

The child's body is relatively weak, so the child's cough is generally more serious than the adult's, and the parents see that the baby has been coughing, and they are very anxious, and they are generally anxious to take the baby to the hospital for examination and prescription. But sometimes your baby's cough doesn't go fast**. Taking medicine also makes the baby's appetite worse, and the child's resistance is even weaker.

In fact, in such a situation, parents can choose to give the baby food therapy.

The color of the child's phlegm can be judged by the color of the child's sputum, if it is a hot cough, the color is green or yellow, but if the child has a cold cough, the color is white.

The symptoms of hot cough are more obvious, the throat is easily swollen and sore, and it is difficult to cough up sputum, and the cough may also be accompanied by sweating and fever. The symptoms of a chill cough are shortness of breath, itchy throat, and some children are prone to nasal congestion.

You can tell the difference by the symptoms of cough, the color of the tongue coating, the color of the urine, the sore throat, the complexion, and the cold hands and feet.

Cold sickness makes the stomach and is afraid of cold. Fever on fire, red eyes, poor sleep, fear of heat.

From the perspective of TCM, fever and cold are two completely different manifestations.

Fever is mostly red and fever, dry mouth, dry stool, irritability, insomnia, dreams, fever, easy to get angry, dry throat and sore throat, etc., and in severe cases, dizziness and low-grade fever.

In this case, it is necessary to clear away heat or nourish yin.

The manifestations of cold syndrome are cold intolerance, cold hands and feet, few cold words, tired eyes, likes heat and cold, pale or dim, cold back and other manifestations.

In this case, it is necessary to warm and replenish yang qi or drive away cold to solve the problem.