What causes cough with thick phlegm?

Cough is a common disease for babies, but most babies have dry coughs, which are easier to treat. However, some babies cough with thick sputum, which is more troublesome. It should be an infection in the upper respiratory tract. Mothers should give their babies more water and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.

Children's coughing symptoms are mostly caused by upper respiratory tract infection. In this case, one should pay attention to drinking more water to dilute the phlegm, and another is to pay attention to the use of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs. You should also take some Chinese herbal preparations that moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. The Resurrection Grass Granules are very good and can take effect quickly. Drink more boiled water, keep the room humidified, and eat more fruits. This is hot in nature. Cold phlegm is thin, white phlegm.

Children with weak constitutions and insufficient vital energy may have dampness retained and condensed into phlegm due to spleen deficiency. Children have weak spleen and stomach, and due to the imbalance of milk and food, the stagnation of water and dampness can damage the spleen and stomach; or they eat too much raw food, melons and fruits, which can damage the middle yang; or they drink too much water due to fever and the spleen cannot function properly, etc., all of which can cause water and dampness to retain and gather into phlegm. In addition, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause turbid air to accumulate in the stomach, generate dampness and heat, and also turn into turbid phlegm. If children's external infection is not treated properly, or if weak children suffer from external infection repeatedly, the lung qi will be damaged and cannot transport body fluid to the four parts of the body and regulate the water channels to transport it to the bladder, causing the fluid to retain and turn into phlegm. The phlegm is stored in the lungs, the lung qi is not smooth, and the phlegm rushes into the airways, which will inevitably cause coughing and excessive phlegm.

The key is to find out the cause of the cough so that it can be treated correctly. If it is a respiratory bacterial infection, antibiotics should be used; if it is a respiratory viral infection, antiviral drugs should be used; since most chronic coughs lasting more than 2 months are allergic coughs, the main treatment should be to eliminate allergic inflammation of the respiratory tract; if combined with allergic rhinitis, it may be allergic rhinitis, and desensitization treatment should be the main treatment.

There are many reasons why children cough. Various pathogens invade and cause infections of the nasopharynx, tonsils, trachea, bronchi and even lungs, which are common causes of children cough. For respiratory tract inflammation caused by pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, mycoplasma, and chlamydia, the treatment effect is good when appropriate antibiotics are used. However, if the disease is caused by a virus or other microbial infection, antibiotics are not appropriate for treatment, and there are currently no truly effective antiviral drugs in clinical practice to treat such diseases.

In addition, the cough that children experience after catching a cold may be a direct symptom caused by respiratory infection, or it may be due to allergic factors induced by respiratory infection, which leads to the persistence of cough symptoms, especially in certain seasons and under certain specific conditions (such as environmental pollution). This situation is more likely to occur. Of course, in addition to these reasons, children's prolonged coughing may also be caused by other diseases. Therefore, when a child has recurrent and persistent coughing, the child should be taken to a well-equipped hospital and treated by an experienced doctor to avoid affecting the timely and effective treatment of the disease.