What to do if you keep coughing

Many patients' coughs are caused by lung inflammation, but there are actually many factors that cause coughs. Generally, coughs have the possibility of healing on their own. However, some patients continue to cough due to the particularity of the cause of the disease. When faced with this situation, doctors often treat it as tracheitis, which will not be effective.

In order to solve the problem of long-term coughing, many patients are looking for solutions to the problem of constant coughing. In fact, if you want to effectively solve the problem of constant coughing, you must first know why you are coughing so that you can carry out targeted treatment.

What to do if you keep coughing

pertussis

If the cough is paroxysmal, it may occur as many as ten to twenty times in succession, and there may be a special inhalation roar at the end of the cough. The course of the disease is long, lasting for several weeks or even three months, so it is called whooping cough. And it is contagious. General treatment for whooping cough: keep the air fresh; avoid all factors that may induce coughing; provide good care to prevent complications; pay attention to nutrition.

Cold cough

People who have a heavy cough, itchy throat, thin white sputum, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, and a thin white tongue coating usually suffer from a cough caused by wind and cold. Chinese patent medicines such as Tongxuan Lifei Pills and Juhong Pills can be used. In terms of diet therapy, you can take perilla porridge, scallion porridge, etc., but do not eat cold foods such as bitter melon.

Wind-dry cough

People who have itchy throat, dry cough, dry and sore throat, dry back of nose, no phlegm or little phlegm mostly have "wind-dryness" cough. It is recommended to take loquat paste, etc., and food supplements can choose white fungus porridge and lily rice porridge.

Lung and kidney deficiency cough

A weak and mild cough accompanied by shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, and clear and thin sputum is a symptom of lung qi deficiency. A weak cough that is more severe at night and accompanied by shortness of breath, back pain, etc. is often a symptom of both lung and kidney deficiency. Diet adjustment: ①, wash and slice 250 grams of white radish, 7 slices of ginger, 30 grams of brown sugar, add appropriate amount of water to boil the juice and drink it once in the morning and evening every day. ②. Remove the core of a snow pear, fill it with an appropriate amount of rock sugar, steam it and eat it. Eat one pear each morning and evening.

Phlegm-heat cough

People who cough with short breath or phlegm in the throat, with a lot of sticky phlegm, uncomfortable coughing or spitting out phlegm with a hot and fishy smell, or even vomiting blood in phlegm, fullness in the chest and flanks, and red face and tongue, mostly have phlegm-heat cough. Chinese patent medicines include Jizhi Syrup, Compound Fresh Bamboo Sap, etc. Food supplements include autumn pear and white lotus root juice, reed root porridge, etc.

Now you know what to do if you have a persistent cough. In fact, there are many other reasons that may cause persistent coughing, which I will not introduce to you here. In order for all patients to recover as soon as possible, during the coughing stage, you must pay attention to eating more foods that have lung-moisturizing effects, such as pears, white radishes, etc. Only by combining these two factors can you solve the cough problem as soon as possible.