Question
What’s causing my child’s dry cough and nausea? Lately, the child has been crying and restless, and the hospital check-up didn’t find any issues.
Answer
Hello, dry cough and nausea in children may be due to inflammatory infections. It is recommended that you take your child to the hospital for examination, such as ultrasound, liver function tests, and upper gastrointestinal contrast studies. After excluding the above diseases, if there are no abnormalities in the liver and stomach, you can adopt anti-inflammatory and antiviral treatment. You can use cefixime, ribavirin, and antiviral syrup for treatment, and also give ambroxol to relieve cough. If the child has symptoms of encephalitis, a lumbar puncture is needed for diagnosis.