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Posted on 16th Jun 2010 @ 1:57 AM

Cough is a reflex of self-protection of human performance, which is caused by the high excitement of the trachea or lungs. Its role is to prevent the mucus or pus accumulation in the airways. Precisely, cough is a symptom, not a disease. Its role is often prompts the body sick. In most cases, the cough is caused by the throat’ virus infection, or a protective function (if the baby inhale food or other foreign matter through the throat, the cough can help these foreign matter expelled). Pseudomembrane of laryngitis, bronchitis, or inhaled irritants also is the reason of causing cough. Sometimes, the cough is the main symptoms for children with asthma.

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Infant cough caused by common diseases:
Upper respiratory tract infections: mostly caused by a virus infection, due to upper respiratory tract congestion and edema. This may lead infants and young children to itching throat. This time, the cough is irritating cough.
Laryngitis and tracheitis: a hoarse cough, mostly at night with a sudden onset.
Bronchial pneumonia: infant inter cough, sputum, but also accompanied by shortness of breath, fever, breathing difficulties.
Allergic cough: cough for longer periods, often in the early morning or at night onset. Less sputum, most irritating cough, increased cough in the exercise.
Foreign body in trachea: trachea inhaled melon seeds, peanuts, pellets, beans or other foreign matter, manifested as severe coughing.
Treatment And Prevention
Keep the air clean
Dirty air may cause the baby cough. The respiratory system of infants and children are very delicate. Kitchen smoke, indoor smoke will cause the infant respiratory mucosal congestion, edema, then lead a cough. Therefore, parents should always help the room ventilation, and do not smoke around your baby.
Reasonable diet
Parents could add more nutrient foods, such as eggs, milk, lean meat, soy products when the baby catch a cough. This helping to add inflammatory protein consumption, increase body resistance. The gastrointestinal function of baby is generally poor when cough, so parents should be add more moisture content to baby food, and should note that adding minerals and vitamins is neccesary. Let your baby eat more fresh vegetables, such as radish, tomato, vegetables, etc., which is nice for help supplement the vitamins, minerals and salts, repair the body metabolism, increase appetite.
Suitable change of clothes
Parents should be appropriate to help baby change clothes suitably. It is blind to help your baby increase clothes when the cooler weather coming. This will reduce the baby's ability to regulate body temperature and reduce the resistance.
To maintain appropriate indoor temperature and humidity
Temperature is too high or too low will affect the baby's immunity and susceptible to disease. The most suitable temperature is 25 ℃ ~ 28 ℃. And the room is too dry, will lead the baby's respiratory mucosa more dry. And is not easy to cough up sputum, then aggravate cough. It is general to maintain the indoor relative humidity of 60% to 70%.