I have been coughing for a long time and I haven't recovered. What if it's serious?

Cough is just a symptom of western medicine. Many diseases, such as respiratory infection, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, pharyngitis, etc. There may be cough, and the treatment is mainly anti-inflammatory and cough-relieving. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is one of the main symptoms of lung diseases, but since ancient times, there has been a saying that "all the five zang-organs make people cough, not the lung alone", pointing out that cough is not only a manifestation of lung diseases, but also can occur when other zang-organs are diseased and involve the lung. The causes of cough are exogenous cough and internal injury cough. Exogenous cough is mostly caused by wind, cold, heat, dryness and other exogenous pathogens, and its characteristics are: acute onset, short course of disease, often accompanied by colds; Cough due to internal injury can be divided into spleen deficiency, lung deficiency and kidney deficiency. It is characterized by slow illness, long course of disease and recurrent attacks. Children's coughs, like those of adults, are also caused by internal injuries, but children's coughs are worse than those of adults, and most of them cough. It is very uncomfortable for parents to see their children cough, so as long as their children have a little cough, they want to see a doctor, take medicine, give injections and hang water. The result of taking medicine is that appetite is hurt, loss of appetite and nutrition can't keep up. Children have poor resistance, poor resistance, and it is easier for children. Therefore, when children have cough symptoms, parents should first observe the nature of cough, whether there are complications and systemic symptoms, and then decide whether to seek medical treatment immediately. First, the cough that needs rapid treatment is 1. When the child suddenly coughs badly and has difficulty breathing, there may be a foreign body blocking the trachea. Things that are easy to swallow by mistake are peanuts, pencil boxes, pills, buttons, coins, candy and so on. If it can be found immediately, just take emergency measures to take it out. If you haven't found a foreign body stuck in the airway, it will be very dangerous. 2, high fever, cough, breathing difficulties, need to be sent to the hospital immediately. 3, the baby is prone to bronchiolitis, which is a kind of pneumonia. At this time, the child's face is not good, he often turns purple, or his breathing is accelerated, his shoulders are lifted, and the lower part of his chest wall is sunken when inhaling, so he should be sent to the hospital in time. Second, you can observe first, cough 1 don't rush to the hospital. Although cough and fever, but the spirit is very good, mostly cold or tonsillitis. 2. Cough after a cold, fever and cough. 3, cough, phlegm, but not fever, good spirit. 4. Cough that only occurs in the early morning. 5. I will cough slightly when I am nervous or after exercise. Parents of the above five kinds of coughs need not worry too much. They can first relieve symptoms and treat cough through diet therapy. Because cough can be divided into exogenous cough and internal injury cough, exogenous cough can be divided into wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. Different types of cough are completely different in medication, so the methods of diet therapy are different, and it is more complicated to distinguish them. Here is a simple way to teach parents to observe their children's tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, just like it snows in winter, it means that the child is cold, coughing with thin phlegm, white and sticky, and has a runny nose. If the child's tongue coating is yellow and red, it means that the child is angry, coughing yellow and thick, not easy to cough up, and has a sore throat. At this time, you should eat some foods that clear lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Cough caused by internal injuries is mostly chronic and recurrent. At this time, parents should pay attention to give their children some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidney and replenish the lung. The specific methods are as follows: wind-cold cough 1, ginger+brown sugar+garlic: When children catch a cold, drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can play a good therapeutic role. If the child has a cough at the same time, add 2-3 cloves of garlic to ginger and brown sugar water. 2. Steaming garlic water: take 2-3 cloves of garlic, mash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a crystal sugar, cover the bowl, and steam them in a pot. After the fire boils, steam it on low heat 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot and still warm, feed it to the children. Garlic can be avoided, generally 2-3 times a day, once and a half bowls. For children aged 5-6, 4-5 cloves can be put on garlic head, and 7-8 cloves can be put on adults. Garlic is warm and enters the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. Treating cold and cough, kidney deficiency and cough is very effective, and it is convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it. 3. Bake oranges: Bake oranges directly on a small fire and turn them constantly until the orange peel turns black and hot air comes out of the orange. Leave it for a while, not too hot, peel off the baked orange peel and let the children eat warm orange petals. If it is a big orange, children can eat 2-3 petals at a time. If it is a small tribute orange, children can eat one at a time. It is best to take it with garlic water, 2-3 times a day. Oranges are warm in nature and have the function of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, especially the red part outside the orange peel, which is also called oranges. When you cough due to a cold and have a lot of phlegm, it is white and sticky. After eating baked oranges, the amount of sputum will be significantly reduced, and the antitussive effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat it. 4. Scrambled eggs with sesame oil in Jiang Mo: Put a spoonful of sesame oil in a wok, put it in Jiang Mo after the oil is hot, soak it in the oil for a while, then pour in 1 egg and stir well. Eat it while it is hot before the child goes to bed, and don't burn the child. When the child has a cold and cough and is weak, give it to the child once a night for a few days, and you will see obvious results. 5, pear+pepper+rock sugar: pear 1 piece, washed, cut horizontally with a handle, dug out the core in the middle, put in 20 pepper and 2 rock sugar, put the upper part of the pear together, put it in a bowl, steam it on the pot for about half an hour, and a pear can be eaten twice. Steamed pepper and rock sugar pear are very effective in treating colds and coughs, but some children don't want to eat the taste of pepper, so parents can choose for themselves. These are the dietotherapy remedies for cough due to wind-cold. Parents should also pay attention to the following raw and cold foods that children should not eat: mung beans, crabs, mussels, snails, clams, clams, grapefruit, bananas, kiwis, sugar cane, watermelons, melons, bitter melons and water chestnuts. Wind-heat cough 1, pear+crystal sugar+Fritillaria cirrhosa: Wash the pear, cut it horizontally with a handle, remove the core in the middle, add 2-3 crystal sugar and 5-6 Fritillaria cirrhosa, break the Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder, put the upper parts of the pear together, or insert it tightly with a toothpick, put it in a bowl, steam it in a pot for about 30 minutes, and give it to children twice. Some parents give their children a cough, sometimes it is very useful, and sometimes the more they eat, the heavier their cough becomes. So parents must pay attention to this method. It must be wind-heat cough. The child's tongue coating is red or yellow, the phlegm is sticky and yellow, and the child is angry. Cough with sore throat and chest pain can be treated with this method, and the effect is good. There are also various anti-inflammatory drugs and most antitussive drugs that have a good therapeutic effect on wind-heat cough, so wind-heat cough is the easiest to cure among cough caused by various reasons. Nowadays, children are generally greedy for cold, turn on the air conditioner when they are hot, eat cold fruits all year round, and eat cold drinks all year round, so the number of children with wind-heat cough is obviously reduced now. Parents should pay attention to their children's tongue coating when choosing treatment prescriptions. If they cough because of cold, the tongue coating is white, while Fritillaria cirrhosa is bitter and cold. Eating this prescription is a cold disease treated with wind-cold medicine, which is even worse. 2. Boil radish water: Wash radish, cut it into 4-5 pieces, put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, boil it on the fire, and then turn off the fire for 5 minutes. When the water is not hot, give it to children. It is good for wind-heat cough, dry mouth, dry cough and less phlegm, especially suitable for babies under 2 years old. 3, you can also give children the following foods: 1, Xunzi: cold, can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, but children can only eat one Xunzi at a time, because Xunzi is cold, eating too much children will be uncomfortable. 2, watermelon: cold, children have wind-heat cough in summer, you can give children more watermelon, watermelon can cure all fever. 3, loquat: cool, can moisten the lungs, expectorant, cough, suitable for children to cough yellow pus. 4. Water chestnuts: cold, parents can peel 2-3 water chestnuts, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water and burn them on the fire for 5 minutes. Drinking water from water chestnuts for children can eliminate phlegm and clear heat, which has a good effect on people with fever, cough and expectoration. ⑤ You can also give children winter melon soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices and fried bitter gourd, which can also play the role of removing fire, slow fire and relieving cough. When children cough due to wind-heat, they should not eat spicy and easy-to-get-angry foods, such as mutton, dog meat, silky fowl, silkworm chrysalis, fish, shrimp, jujube, longan, litchi, walnut kernel, cherry, pepper, etc. Internal injury cough refers to those chronic coughs that recur for a long time, or coughs caused by colds and fever. The symptoms of cold and fever have disappeared, and the cough has been severe. All kinds of anti-inflammatory drugs and cough drugs have been used, but they still can't stop. Although the degree of cough is reduced, children still cough often. At this time, parents can use diet therapy to help their children recover. Children who cough repeatedly use anti-inflammatory drugs and cough medicine. Such a child has a bad appetite and no appetite. The tongue coating is almost white. Parents should first regulate their children's spleen and stomach, and cooperate with foods that tonify kidney and lung blood to improve their physique. The specific method is as follows: 1. The dietotherapy prescription for treating wind-cold cough introduced earlier is suitable for children with internal injury cough, while the dietotherapy prescription for treating wind-heat cough should be avoided for children with chronic cough. 2. Boiling yam porridge: Take a section of yam, peel it, cut it into small pieces, put it into a food grinder, add half a bowl of water, process the yam into a thin paste, pour it into a small pot, set it on fire, and stir it while burning to prevent it from burning the bottom of the pot. When the yam boils and bubbles, turn off the heat. It is best to eat on an empty stomach and feed it to the children. A bowl of yam porridge can be fed to children 2-3 times. Yam has the functions of invigorating stomach, invigorating lung qi, nourishing kidney essence and strengthening body, and is suitable for fatigue and cough caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and deficiency of lung and kidney. But the amylase contained in yam, also known as digestive enzyme, can be decomposed into protein and carbohydrates, so it has nourishing effect. This amylase is afraid of high fever, and it will lose its effect if it is decocted for a long time under the condition of continuous high fever. Therefore, it should not be too long when decocting. The yam porridge processed by this method is most suitable for infants, which can not only relieve cough and asthma, but also has a good therapeutic effect on anorexia, hyperhidrosis, drooling, qi deficiency and timidity in children. 3, red dates+ginkgo: This side is suitable for children over 2 years old. Take 3 pieces of red dates and 3 pieces of ginkgo biloba, shell them, put them in a small pot, add more than half a bowl of water, and set them on fire for 0/0 minute. Let children eat red dates and ginkgo once a day and drink water once, preferably before going to bed every night. Jujube is warm in nature, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, ginkgo is flat in nature, astringing lung qi, relieving cough and asthma, and has the function of consolidating kidney. Therefore, it is very obvious for parents of children with persistent cough, repeated colds, fever and cough to eat jujube and ginkgo soup every night. You can also treat enuresis at the same time, but the dosage of red dates and ginkgo must be controlled well, limited to 3 capsules. If the amount is too much, the child will easily get angry and stagnate. 4. Walnut+sesame+red dates+honey or yellow rice wine: half a catty of walnut kernel, two pairs of black sesame seeds and half a catty of red dates. Walnut kernels and black sesame seeds can be crushed by a crusher, and red dates can be pitted and chopped. Put these three kinds into a large bowl and stir well, then add one tablespoon of honey (summer honey, winter rice wine) and three tablespoons of water. Because honey is difficult to stir evenly, mix honey and water in the fire first. Give the child a spoonful every morning and evening. Walnut kernel is warm, and has the effects of benefiting qi and clearing heat, moistening intestine and tonifying kidney, astringing lung and relieving asthma, relieving cough and resolving phlegm; Sesame is flat in nature and has the effects of enriching blood, improving eyesight, expelling wind and moistening intestines, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and nourishing liver and kidney. Jujube is warm, and has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and enriching the blood. Together, these three commonly used tonics can replenish blood, tonify kidney, regulate spleen and stomach, and moisten intestines. In addition, honey can replenish deficiency and moisten dryness, which can make this prescription not dry. In winter, yellow wine can strengthen the effect of tonifying kidney and nourishing blood. This prescription can not only treat children's chronic cough, bronchitis and asthma, but also have a very good therapeutic effect on children's constipation. At the same time, this prescription can be eaten by children all year round, which has a good effect on strengthening children's physique. Parents who are keen on giving their children supplements may wish to do it themselves. Massage for children's cough The massage for children's cough is mainly that parents often pat their children on the back. For some children with wind-heat cough and tonsillitis, the effect will be better if parents cooperate with foot massage. 1, pat the back. Infants and young children don't spit. Even if the sputum has been coughed up, it will only be swallowed, but the sputum in the stomach will be swallowed. When vomiting is caused by severe cough, it is often seen that vomit is mixed with a lot of sputum. If the sputum is too thick, it is not easy to cough up, especially for some children who are weak or seriously ill. Parents can't cough up phlegm because they are weak. When the child coughs, they pick up the child and gently pat the child's back with the empty palm, up, down, left and right. If the child coughs when shooting a certain part, it means that the child's sputum has accumulated here, so it is necessary to focus on shooting. Most parts of the child below the scapula, that is, the bottom of the lung, are easy to accumulate phlegm. As long as there is sputum stimulation, the child will cough. Once the sputum is discharged, the cough can be temporarily relieved. Therefore, patting the back can broaden the chest and regulate qi, and promote the discharge of sputum. Parents must often pat their children on the back to help them cough up phlegm. It is best to pat the child on the back when he just wakes up and is ready to sleep, so that the child can cough up phlegm and help the child fall asleep. 2. For children with wind-heat cough accompanied by sore throat and tonsillitis, foot massage can also play a therapeutic role. The specific method is as follows: 1. Rub the child's feet first, rub one foot 30 times, and rub it up and down. ② Massage each toe up and down for 20-40 times. ③ Massage the instep (not the sole of the foot, but the parts on both sides of the big toe root, which is the reflection area of tonsil. As long as the tonsils are inflamed, this part will be very painful, and parents can easily find it. Massage the left and right big toes for 5 minutes, and massage the two big toes 10 minutes. After focusing on the tonsil reflex zone, the swelling and pain in the child's throat will be significantly reduced. After the massage, you should give your child plenty of warm water in time, or you can drink a little salt water. Massage the child twice a day and then cooperate with diet therapy. Your child's illness will soon recover. The dietotherapy remedies introduced above can also be eaten by adults, but the food intake is slightly larger.