Are you also
worried about the cold and cough your child is suffering from? Coughing is a
very common symptom in children and usually accompanies an infection with the
common cold virus. Cough can be of many types, whooping cough, dry cough,
chesty cough,
cough with vomiting or barky cough. However you need to understand
the cause of your child's cough in order provide appropriate help and
treatment.
How to
understand the type of cough:
- When your child is coughing long
or cannot draw breath, possibly its whooping cough, which is caused by bacteria
not virus.
- If your child is feeling like a
tickle in the back of the throat, that symbolizes dry cough that is not in
itself dangerous, but a natural and normal reaction to secretions in the respiratory
tract.
- If there is wheezing while
inhaling possibly its barky cough which is commonly brought on by
a viral upper respiratory infection, or in some cases allergies.
- Chesty cough is due to
virus can get very loud and worrisome, but they don't always signal a major
infection. If your child is still eating, has energy and can sleep at night,
they'll likely kick the cough in 7 to 10 days.
- If your child or baby has a
cough, and throws up after coughing, it doesn't necessarily mean they have a
more serious infection. If your child coughs violently for over 2 weeks with
vomiting, can't stop coughing and can't breathe, they may have whooping cough.
