Question
Patient’s Age and Condition Description: The patient is a child with recurrent coughing symptoms. They have received treatment at Chongqing Children’s Hospital but with little improvement. Assistance is sought to cure the cough and asthma.
Answer
The doctor’s recommendations include considering blood tests, throat condition, chest X-ray, and allergen test results to adopt anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic medication treatments. They also encourage the patient to drink plenty of water, adopt a light diet, increase outdoor activities to enhance resistance, and prevent respiratory infections. Common types of colds in children include wind-cold type, wind-heat type, and summer-dampness type. Wind-cold type colds are usually caused by catching a cold from the wind and can be relieved by drinking red sugar ginger soup; wind-heat type colds are caused by external wind-heat and can consider giving children Good Doctor Anti-Cold Granules for clearing heat and detoxifying; summer-dampness type colds often relate to excessive air conditioning in summer or eating cold foods, and it is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine for clearing summer dampness under physician guidance. Although childhood colds are not severe diseases, if not treated promptly, they may lead to other health problems. Therefore, parents should pay attention to them, maintain good indoor air circulation, change children’s clothes in a timely manner, let children rest quietly, and choose light and easy-to-digest foods.