Is cough a bacterial infection or a viral infection

Coughing is quite common in our daily life, and there are many reasons for coughing. It may be bacterial infection or viral infection. For example, when you have a cold, viral cold is very common, which is an important cause of coughing. So when you have a cough, you must understand the specific cause and then treat it with certain medications. Let's take a look at this aspect.

Is the cough a bacterial or viral infection?

The symptoms of viral upper respiratory tract infection, the results of routine blood examination show that the total white blood cell count is not high and the neutrophil ratio is also within the normal range, these are the basis for diagnosing your viral infection. To determine whether it is a bacterial or viral infection, differential diagnosis is mainly performed through blood routine tests in clinical practice!

What medicine should children take for cough

1. Children's phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving granules: for children with symptoms of thick phlegm that is difficult to cough up, or long-term coughing and frequent coughing, and for coughs caused by bronchitis.

2. Children's heat-clearing and cough-relieving oral liquid: for children's colds, coughs, and sore throats caused by lung heat.

3. Jieji Ningsou Pills: They are good at clearing the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving coughs. They are used for children with headaches, fever, coughs with excessive phlegm, shortness of breath and sore throats. It is often used to treat children's initial cough caused by colds and wind-induced colds. It is also used for tracheitis, bronchitis, etc.

4. Children's Lung Clearing and Mouth Heat Liquid: It has the function of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is suitable for people with red face, hot body, cough with a lot of phlegm and sore throat.

5. Jianer Qingjie Liquid: It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, eliminating stagnation and harmonizing the stomach. It is suitable for people with cough, sore throat, loss of appetite, and fullness in the wrists and abdomen.

6. Kechuanling granules or oral liquid for children: used for those with or without fever, cough with sputum, and shortness of breath, for recurrent cough and asthma. Treat cough caused by cold or other causes.

What to eat to cure dry cough quickly

1. Stewed Pear with Rock Sugar

Snow pear stewed with rock sugar can effectively nourish yin and moisten the lungs, nourish the stomach and promote salivation. It is best to eat it in the morning and evening. In addition, pears stewed with rock sugar have a cough-relieving effect, but it needs to be eaten for a period of time. In addition, eating pears stewed with rock sugar regularly can also eliminate phlegm heat, nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Take 1 raw pear, 1 gram of Fritillaria powder, and 30 grams of rock sugar. Peel the raw pear, dig out the core, add rock sugar and Fritillaria powder, put it in a bowl and steam it for 20 minutes. Eat the pear and drink the soup.

2. Double Flower Peach Kernel Drink

Shuanghua Peach Kernel Drink has the effect of moistening the lungs and nourishing yin, and is suitable for children with dry cough and long-term cough. Take 10 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, and 5 grams of peach kernel, soak in water for half an hour, then boil for half an hour, take the juice and add a little honey to drink.

3. Adenophora and Tremella Soup

Adenophora and Tremella Soup is suitable for children with facial fever, hot hands and feet, dry cough and long-term cough. Take 10 grams of white fungus, 10 grams of Adenophora stellaria, and 30 grams of crystal sugar. Soak the white fungus in water for half an hour, add sand and boil for half an hour, take the juice and remove the hawthorns. Add soaked white fungus and rock sugar into the juice and cook for half an hour before serving. It has the effect of moistening the lungs and nourishing yin.