Question
My baby has phlegm with cough and still continues to cough after fever subsides. The effect of using Tongrentang’s Children Lung Clearing Oral Liquid is not obvious. What other treatment methods are there?
Answer
Some young parents find that when their child has a slight cough, they rush to give the child various cough suppressants. Although this can temporarily alleviate cough symptoms, it may lead to a large accumulation of phlegm and bacteria in the respiratory tract, causing bacterial infections, and in severe cases, even respiratory difficulties and atelectasis as complications. Therefore, cough suppressants should not be given to children randomly before determining the cause. If the child has coughing accompanied by fever, yellow sticky sputum, and increased white blood cells indicating obvious inflammatory symptoms, antibiotics should be used promptly under a doctor’s guidance. In addition to using antibiotics for coughs caused by bacterial infections, some simple and easy measures can also be taken, such as frequently turning the child over or patting the back to promote lung blood circulation and make it easier for sputum in the respiratory tract to be discharged. The method of patting the back is: have the child half-sitting or held up half-sitting, with the parent’s fingers slightly curved into a half-circle shape, gently patting the child’s back from top to bottom and from outside to inside in order, for 3 to 5 minutes on each side, twice or three times a day.