How to tell whether a child is coughing due to lung heat or lung cold

Hello. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to distinguish whether a child's cough is due to lung heat or lung cold. One of the main symptoms of lung heat cough is repeated coughing, often accompanied by aversion to cold and fever, chest pain when coughing, less and sticky phlegm, difficulty breathing, and dry mouth. Symptoms include dry throat, thin and yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

If the child has a cough due to lung cold, he may also have a runny nose and like to eat cold food, so that the cold evil can damage the lungs and cause a cough. The symptoms include white complexion, excessive phlegm and thin phlegm. The treatments for these two types of cold symptoms are also different.

If it is lung heat, then the main thing is to give the child fever-lowering treatment. If it is lung heat cough, it is also necessary to prevent the child from bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases, so the child also needs to be given Use Qingfei granules, amoxicillin capsules, Zimaixin and other drugs to treat it.

Notes:

It must be noted that whether the child has a cough due to lung heat or a cough due to cold lung, the child needs to drink more water, so that the symptoms of colds will be reduced. For the relief effect, if it is lung cold, it is recommended to take Chinese medicine to treat the child.