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| Symptoms of asthma in infants less visible and easily misdiagnosed |
Symptoms
of asthma in infants less visible and easily misdiagnosed
Cough
phenomenon on 4 consecutive weeks, may become serious. There are many factors
leading to this situation, so to be able to treat and the best fit for the
child, the need to understand the causes of disease.
1. Why children with chronic cough?
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| Why children with chronic cough? |
The causes of chroniccough can be caused by pulmonary or extrapulmonary disease such as
sinusitis, ear infections, reflux esophagitis, cardiac, or due to side effects
of drugs...
Can be based on the following factors to
determine why children with persistent cough:
- Based on a few coughs expression: productive cough can be caused by allergies, asthma, coughing bouts and may blush airway foreign bodies, whoopingcough, nocturnal cough due to sinusitis, asthma, cough after exercise is a manifestation of asthma or if the cough never sleep while the young can only psychological ...
- Sort by age:
- Infants: chroniccough due to infection (respiratory virus, whoopingcough, chlamydia, tuberculosis ...), pollution, asthma, respiratory defects, congenital heart defects, gastroesophageal reflux thick.
- Babies: cough due to environmental pollution, asthma, foreign body, gastric reflux, or due to increased bronchial hypersensitivity after infection.
- Older children: environmental pollution, tuberculosis, asthma - postnasal drip, bronchodilators, cough or psychological.
2. What to do when your child coughing?
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| What to do when your child coughing? |
- When children with chronic cough, parents should take their children to the hospital for examination and treatment promptly. At the clinic, the doctor will ask about a history of allergy, asthma in the family, the environment in which children live or exposure ... Also, depending on the status of the disease, they may be doing tests such as X-ray lung, tuberculosis test, taking sinus, respiratory function test, serum tests to bacteria, internal bronchoscopy if any foreign body suspected...
- Based on the cause of the disease to make the appropriate therapeutic approach:
- Nose Syndrome following flow: due to allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis. In addition to coughing, itchy and the child is stuffy. Should take the child to see a specialist Ear - Nose - Throat, the doctor will give your child some antihistamines, anti-inflammatory ...
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease management: a phenomenon common in infants and usually resolves after 12 months. Children aspiration from the stomach comes up the esophagus into the lungs, causing inflammation of the bar - leading to bronchitis and chronic cough. Especially in infants, reflux disease can cause apnea, bradycardia, pneumonia ... For accurate diagnosis need to measure the pH in the esophagus, or abdominal ultrasound. Chronic cough due to gastroesophageal reflux can be treated medically, success rate 80%. Should the child is high, milk, solid foods, you can use medicine as your doctor prescribes. In severe cases, medical treatment can not be the new kids need surgery.
- After-infectious respiratory virus: respiratory infections and persistent increase bronchial hypersensitivity after infection and a cough that lasts. However, the disease is not serious and can be cured.
- Cough sentiment - mainly habits in older children, usually do not happen during sleep or concentrate on something. Children of expression, hacking cough up more often during stress. In this case should be examined and treated for child psychology.
Thank you very much!
