The child is choking on a cough, what should I do?

What to do if a small child chokes

The most acute and dangerous variant of the problem described above is its presence in children under 1 year of age. If a child at this age is choking, he cannot clearly and clearly signal that he is choking. Moreover, he is almost never able to independently eliminate food or a foreign body from the respiratory tract, since he is too small for this.

What to do if a small child under 1 year of age chokes or chokes:

• Primary measures. The baby’s condition should be promptly assessed. If he coughs and cries, then most likely the airways will be able to clear on their own. However, you should not put the baby on his back: it is better to hold him in your arms, partially tilting his body forward. If there is no breathing, proceed to the following procedures;

Under no circumstances try to remove a strongly and deeply stuck object with your fingers, as this may create the preconditions for it to become more severely stuck.

• Raise the little patient's hands up. This way you will also expand your airways;
• Take the child by the legs and lift him up;
• Place the baby on your arm in an elevated position, lower your head a little and hit between the shoulder blades 5 times with the heel of your palm. The blows themselves should be sharp enough, but light, so as not to injure the back and chest.

What to do if the activities did not help?

For infants, the following additional actions are possible:

• Place the baby on his back;
• Place your middle index finger in the sternum area, then perform 5 presses, pressing your fingers an average of 1.5-2 cm. In this case, the sternum should straighten after each manipulation;

Alternate this activity with the previous one (on the arm) until the medical team arrives, sequentially patting the area of ​​the shoulder blades and squeezing the chest.

If a child chokes on milk, bread, apple, water or even saliva, then it is necessary to accurately identify the presence of an acute problem by indirect signs. Hazard can be defined as follows:

• The child becomes silent and cannot utter a single sound, while he is unable to breathe;
• The child's mouth is wide open, saliva may flow out of it;
• The baby's eyes are frightened, horror can be read in them;
• The skin on his body turns red. In the absence of quick help, the child quickly turns blue
• If the child is older than six months, he will try to grab himself by the throat with his hands;
• After a short period of time, the child loses consciousness.

If such signals are present, you should immediately provide quick first aid to the child and at the same time call an ambulance to the house.

Cough as if a child is choking

I'll tell you about our experience when my child suffered from laryngitis.

Wrong diagnosis

It was hot summer days, which are rare in the Urals. My son was 2.5 years old at that time. The fact that he then developed a fever was a surprise to me; he simply could not catch a cold anywhere. As usual, I called the doctor, she prescribed treatment. After a couple of days, Andryushka began to cough and not as usual. The cough was rare, but “barking”; it seemed to me that he was suffocating. Since it was a day off, I called an ambulance.

My son got sick in the middle of summer

The ambulance arrived and they suspected bronchitis. As luck would have it, Andrei was not coughing at that moment. I quickly packed my things to the minimum, and we loaded into the ambulance. The doctor said that we would go to one hospital, but in the end we arrived at another. It turned out that while they were driving, Andrei coughed. A “barking” cough is characteristic of laryngitis, so the doctor decided to go to another specialized hospital.

That’s how we ended up in the children’s infectious diseases department of hospital No. 40. At the emergency room, laryngitis was confirmed. I asked how serious it is and whether I need to go to the hospital? The doctor replied that you don’t have to go to bed, but if the child starts to choke at night, you will panic, then go to the ambulance. And that we will come here anyway. And I decided that we would stay.

Luxurious conditions in the regional hospital

Unexpectedly for me, the living conditions there were luxurious. The double room consisted of a separate hallway, a large spacious room and a bathroom. knot, food was brought directly to the ward. The downside was that it was incredibly hot, and there weren’t even blinds on the windows. To open the window, I had to go to the nurse on duty for a hand, and the food was so disgusting that even I couldn’t eat it, let alone a child. It’s good that there are relatives who fed us.

The conditions in the hospital were excellent. Except for food.

We spent the first day and night in the ward alone. Even though Andryushka had a fever, he was still “standing on his head.” We were not allowed to go outside or even walk around the hospital, and confinement in one room was a disaster for Andrei.

The appearance of neighbors

On the second day, a two-week-old baby doll was placed with us with her mother. I felt very sorry for this baby; she was dressed in a warm woolen jumpsuit and wrapped in a blanket. It's hot outside, stuffy in the room. Andrey walked around in my T-shirt and shorts, and slept in a T-shirt and diaper, under a sheet. I wanted to tell my mother that she shouldn’t wrap her up like that, especially if the child has a fever, but for some reason I was embarrassed, deciding that it was none of my business and she knew better. About three hours later they ran away from us, because... Andryushka simply could not be quiet and constantly woke up the baby.

When my son began to recover, he did not sit still.

Refusal from hospitalization

And the next day I wrote a refusal to undergo further hospitalization, and we went home. The temperature subsided, the cough was no longer so strong. And we could breathe through a nebulizer with pulmicort (that’s all we were prescribed in the hospital) at home. In the hospital, Andrei did not have any asthma attacks, and, in fact, we lay there in vain, it was just my reinsurance.

To summarize, I would like to say - if your child has a “barking” cough, do not hesitate - call a doctor or an ambulance. And then look at the situation. If it is laryngitis, then if you have a nebulizer, you can treat it at home.

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First aid for a child under 3 years old

As practice shows, for children from 1 to 3 years old, emergency first aid if a child has choked on food or a foreign object is a little easier and simpler to provide than for an infant under one year old. In this context, a wider range of possible actions is available.

First of all, you should try both methods described in the previous section. In particular, this is moving the child into a horizontally inclined position with his head down and tapping first on the area of ​​the shoulder blades, and then turning him over on his back and corresponding manipulations of pressure on the sternum. If there is no effect, the Helmich method can be used.

Basic first aid steps if a child is choking or choking:

• Place your child in an upright position and stand behind him. If his height is small enough, then you can kneel directly behind him;
• Grab your baby around the waist;
• Clench your right hand into a fist and place it with your fingers inward between the child’s ribs and navel, and use your other palm to secure the clenched fist;
• Begin to spread your elbows to the sides and press on the baby’s stomach from bottom to top;
• Perform vigorously until a piece of food, liquid or foreign body comes out.

If all the methods described above do not help, and the child has lost consciousness or stopped breathing, then you should immediately switch to artificial respiration. In case of cardiac arrest, indirect cardiac massage is necessary. Manual resuscitation is rational until the vital signs of a small patient are stabilized or a medical team arrives.

How to help preschoolers and teenagers

Despite the fact that most often a child chokes in infancy or when he just begins to actively walk on his feet, exploring the world accordingly and trying to put any objects in his mouth, preschoolers and adolescents can also get a similar problem.

For example, eating quickly, drinking juice, tea, or deliberately swallowing a foreign object. What to do if a child chokes on food or a foreign object? First of all, do not tap on the back, since you will only push the foreign body further along the respiratory tract and will not help the victim in any way.

The most optimal first aid option if a person is choking is the Heimlich method:

• Stand behind the child's back and clasp his torso with both hands;
• Make one hand into a fist, then place it in the epigastric region;
• Press your fist with your other hand and quickly push it into the victim’s stomach, sharply bending your elbows;

The above described events are repeated several dozen times.

If there is no positive result, you can try an alternative method. It is especially effective in cases of unconsciousness in a child who has choked.

First aid if a child chokes on food or a foreign object and suffocates:

• Lay the victim on his back and sit astride his thighs, facing his head;
• Set his head straight;
• Place the base of the palm of your right hand in the epigastric region, place the second hand on the first;
• Using your own weight, press vigorously into the localization towards the diaphragm;
• Repeat the pushes up to 10-15 times until the airways are clear of food, foreign matter, and so on.

First aid

There is no doubt that a painful, debilitating frequent cough, from which the child suffocates, lacks air, causes significant inconvenience, and causes incredible suffering.
This cough does not allow you to get a good night's sleep, is accompanied by pain in the abdomen and chest muscles, and sometimes causes vomiting. The primary task, after determining the cause of this condition, is to optimize the treatment process, using modern diagnostic methods, to facilitate coughing, and to quickly achieve the transition of a dry cough to a more favorable wet stage. You won’t be able to do such a task on your own, which is why you must definitely get qualified medical help. Before making a final diagnosis, the doctor will ask the parents many questions. Therefore, you should analyze in advance how long ago the cough arose, whether it appeared in full health or was preceded by a cold, whether there is a seasonal dependence, whether attacks of suffocation, nasal discharge, heartburn, and frequent coughing occur. The doctor will also be interested in whether the stomach swells after eating, whether there is no fever, whether there is sputum discharge, its color and quantity. The correct diagnosis will be influenced by information about what diseases the person has, risk factors, whether the child’s mood changes easily, and whether there are cases of coughing among classmates.

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Drug therapy is selected only by the attending physician. Medicines used to treat children who have a cough that causes shortness of breath include various expectorants and antitussives. The latter are prescribed to children only in case of intense dry cough. Such drugs quickly suppress the cough reflex, so the unproductive painful cough, from which the child suffocates, goes away. If you have a wet cough accompanied by sputum production, you should not use antitussives. If they are used, the child will have stagnation of sputum in the bronchi, creating favorable conditions for pathogenic microorganisms to develop, contributing to the development of serious complications. If a child has a wet cough, only expectorants are recommended.

They perform the task of making sputum more fluid and liquid, making it easier to remove it from the bronchi when coughing. This problem is solved by stimulating the functional activity of the ciliated epithelium present in the bronchi and trachea, changing the characteristics of the inflammatory secretion, and strengthening the mucous membranes. Taking expectorants can make your cough milder and more productive. This makes breathing easier, eliminates asthma attacks and improves general condition.

When is it necessary to intervene?

Your child is choking and you don’t know how to correctly identify the symptoms of this problem? This is quite easy to do if you carefully and quickly pay attention to the following signs:

• The child developed a sharp paroxysmal painful cough, which is accompanied by severe redness of the face and lacrimation;
• The child feels severe anxiety, panic and fear of death;
• Breathing quickly deteriorates, sometimes it stops altogether, the baby cannot breathe;
• All skin turns sharply red, and after a while turns blue;
• The child loses consciousness, breathing may cease and cardiac arrest may occur.

In children under 1 year of age, especially infants, it is not so easy to immediately determine the presence of a problem, since they cannot independently signal that they are choking.

Pathology can be identified by the following symptoms:

• The baby becomes silent and cannot take a breath, his eyes are wide open and horror is visible in them;
• The baby's mouth is wide open and saliva may flow out;
• The skin quickly turns red, the child sucks in his stomach and may try to grab you by the throat.

In the absence of immediate help, a newborn or infant who has choked quickly loses consciousness, his skin rapidly turns pale, turns blue, breathing stops, and after some time there is no heartbeat.

Causes

Few will be unfamiliar with the opinion of doctors that the cough that a child sometimes experiences is necessary, because it protects and quickly clears the respiratory tract. However, in most cases, a cough due to which there is not enough air becomes a harbinger of a certain disease. When these diseases are listed, the result is quite an impressive list. There is even a cough that is completely unrelated to diseases of the respiratory system. Such examples are observed in cases of problems in the gastrointestinal tract and pathology of the cardiovascular system.

Cough also occurs when a foreign body is inhaled, gastric secretions or small particles of food enter the respiratory system. Not only a baby, but also any adult can choke or choke on a drink while eating. At these moments, drops of liquid or food particles penetrate the bronchi or trachea. Any foreign body that enters the respiratory system causes an attack of sudden dry cough when there is not enough air, although the person is completely healthy. Also, the cause of a dry cough can be the migration of worms throughout the body.

The doctor can help distinguish between these and many other conditions by knowing what the nature of the cough may be:

• frequent small coughing is a sign of pleural irritation;
• a loud and hacking cough (barking) is a symptom of laryngitis;
• cascading paroxysmal cough, accompanied by reprises and stridorous inhalation when there is not enough air - a sign of whooping cough;
• a regular night cough usually indicates that there is heart failure, gastrointestinal diseases or allergies;
• if a cough occurs when the position of the human body changes, this is a symptom of postnasal drip during sinusitis or rhinitis, reflux gastroesophageal disease;
• a dry hacking cough, in which there is not enough air, indicates a pathology near the bronchi (aortic aneurysm, lymph nodes, compression by a tumor);
• a cough that constantly occurs while eating or after eating may indicate neurogenic disorders, pathology of the esophagus or hernia of the diaphragm (esophageal opening);
• a similar cough, which produces foamy sputum, is typical in infants with esophageal-bronchial fistulas.

The main thing to remember and do is not to immediately grab the first medicine you come across from the first aid kit, since each of them has its own mechanisms of action. The drug should be prescribed by a specialist who understands the type and nature of cough and the stage of the disease.

What to do if your baby is choking

In some cases, even the above-described set of measures does not make it possible to quickly clear the airways, and after choking, the child simply begins to choke. In case of loss of consciousness, rapid bluing of the skin and lack of breathing, you should immediately proceed to artificial ventilation of the lungs.

What to do if a child is choking and suffocating:

• The child is placed on his back, his airways are opened as wide as possible;
• If there are foreign objects in the immediate vicinity that make breathing difficult, it is necessary to carefully remove them, of course, if they are located shallow;
• If there is an s-shaped air duct or a product of another design of this kind, it is imperative to use them for more effective and simple artificial ventilation of the lungs;

• The child’s mouth is covered along the edge with gauze or a bandage to avoid infection of the lungs;
• The person providing assistance takes a deep breath, after which he exhales air into the victim’s mouth for 1-2 seconds, pressing the wings of the nose with his fingers and supporting the chin, pressing his lips tightly to the child’s open mouth. In this case, you should monitor the chest: it should rise;
• After insufflation, keep your chin raised and watch your chest fall. After 4 seconds, the event is repeated, the total cycle takes on average 10-20 times with regular monitoring of the pulse and continues until the baby begins to breathe or you are replaced as part of manual resuscitation or the ambulance team arrives. The basic rhythm of the event is 100 times/minute with an orientation of 2 seconds blowing and 4 seconds pause.

A child is choking and coughing at night: how to calm the attack?

Every generation of parents faces illnesses in their children.
Of particular concern is a dry suffocating cough, in which the child suffocates from lack of air. Cough is divided into dry and wet.

By duration it is classified as:

• Acute form – lasts no more than 3 weeks;
• Prolonged form - may not stop for up to 3 months;
• Chronic form - periodically calms down and resumes again (recurrent course).

Often in children, the urge to cough is a normal physiological state.

In this case, the bronchi are cleansed of foreign substances. This could be bread crumbs swallowed during food intake, or household dust.

If periodic coughing does not cause discomfort to the baby and does not disturb sleep, then he does not need treatment.

The manifestation of cough in children does not always relate to physiological factors. Often its cause is a pathological formation related to the symptoms of the disease that has arisen. In this case, it is necessary to consult a specialist who, after examining the baby, will determine the cause of the disease.

Particularly alarming is a paroxysmal dry, barking cough. It can continue for a long time, and it seems that the child has a foreign body in the throat.

More often, attacks begin at night and progress to vomiting, the child suffocates from lack of air. When the baby lies in a lying position for a long time, mucus accumulates in the nasopharynx.

Nasal congestion causes an attack that prevents you from falling asleep.

Some infectious diseases cause coughing attacks in children. Exacerbations are especially noticeable at night, when deep sleep occurs. Dry cough appears with various diseases.

The symptom is especially obvious in case of whooping cough. The cough center is irritated by the infectious whooping cough bacillus, resulting in a suffocating cough that lasts a long time and ends with vomiting. The attacks are painful and last up to half an hour.

Sometimes the symptom occurs with measles. The disease is characterized by a dry cough at the onset of the disease.

With laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis and other diseases of the upper respiratory tract, a dry cough bothers the child in the first days. To alleviate the condition, you need to thin the viscous sputum with medications.

In bronchial asthma, a dry cough is accompanied by a whistling sound when exhaling.

Coughing can be caused by:

• Cold and dry air;
• Pet hair;
• Household dust;
• Accumulation of tobacco smoke indoors.

If symptoms of a disease appear that provokes coughing in young patients, you should immediately consult a doctor. After examining the baby, the specialist will prescribe treatment. It depends on the type of disease.

Treatment of viral diseases that are accompanied by coughing is carried out at home.

There are some recommendations that, if followed, parents will be able to alleviate the condition of a sick child:

• Carry out wet cleaning and ventilate the room daily;
• Give your baby more fluids, which softens a dry cough and helps remove phlegm;
• Rinse your nasopharynx with saline solution, especially before going to bed;
• Try to reduce the air temperature in the room so that dry and warm air does not irritate the respiratory system;
• Do not self-medicate - give your baby medications prescribed by your doctor.

Treatment should be aimed at calming the cough center. Its irritation leads the child's body to a state where the child cannot sleep at night. A strong suffocating cough tires the baby, and pain occurs in the chest area. This condition is observed in children who have been diagnosed with laryngitis, pharyngitis, or tracheitis.

Effective treatments for cough in children include:

• Inhalations;
• Gargling;
• Medicinal syrups.

The main property of cough syrup is aimed at liquefying and removing mucus. The medicine is prescribed by a specialist, depending on the age of the baby. Children under three years of age cannot cough well, so rapid mucus discharge is contraindicated for them. The most popular syrups among those shown at this age include: “Sinekod”, “Doctor Theiss”, “Lazolvan”.

Medicinal syrup "Doctor Theiss" is produced by a German pharmaceutical company. It belongs to herbal preparations and has expectorant and antiseptic properties.

Its main ingredients are plantain, mint and sugar beet syrup. The medicine is recommended for the treatment of dry cough in children over one year of age. It has virtually no contraindications.

A detailed description of the drug and dosage is contained in the instructions for use.

Lazolvan syrup is prescribed to children who have a dry cough and difficult sputum removal. The main active component of the syrup is the substance ambroxol, with the help of which the mucus is liquefied and separated. The medicinal syrup does not contain alcohol or sugar. Therefore, it is not contraindicated for young patients, allergy sufferers and people with high blood sugar.

Tablets have their own characteristics and are prescribed depending on the type of disease. With a dry cough, irritation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract occurs, so the effect of the drug should be aimed at calming the cough receptors.

Medicines that suppress dry cough include tablets “Libexin”, “Levopront”, “Stoptussin” and others.

The drug "Libexin" is used to treat adults and children. Its active component prenoxdiazine acts on the receptors and calms the attack.

Libexin tablets have anti-inflammatory properties. The effect on the body occurs 30-35 minutes after taking the medicine and lasts up to 8 hours.

Doctors prescribe medicine to a child if he coughs heavily at night. A single dose for children is 25-50 mg, and for adults - 100-200 mg of the drug, which is taken in the morning, afternoon and evening.

To relieve attacks of dry cough, many people use folk remedies. These are old proven methods, but consultation with a doctor before using them is necessary. Perhaps, when examining a child, the doctor will decide that some compounds are contraindicated for him.

Recipe No. 1: honey composition

To prepare the honey mixture you will need:

• 6 mg bee honey;
• 5 grams of cocoa powder;
• 6 mg olive oil;
• 1 yolk.

Combine honey, cocoa and butter. Prepare a homogeneous mass, add the beaten yolk and mix. Give your baby a small teaspoon of the medicine three times a day before meals (30 minutes before).

Recipe No. 2: onion broth

For the decoction you will need:

• 1100 ml water;
• 150 grams of onions;
• 190 grams of sugar.

To prepare onion broth, place two medium-sized onions in prepared water and put on fire. When the water is hot, add sugar. The onion water should simmer slowly for 50 minutes. When the broth has cooled, strain it and drink 90 ml four times a day.

Recipe No. 3: formula milk

If the baby is choking from attacks, hot milk will help him.

Have to take:

• 550 ml milk;
• 1 yolk;
• 25 ml heavy cream;
• 7 mg bee honey.

Boil the required amount of milk and let it cool slightly. Beat the yolk, add cream and honey. Grind the mixture and combine with warm milk. Allow your baby to drink the prepared mixture throughout the day. Milk must be heated before use.

Homemade treatment recipes can significantly alleviate the child’s condition. We must not forget that some components can cause an allergic reaction in the baby. Consult your pediatrician or pediatric otolaryngologist before prescribing therapy.

The materials posted on this page are informational in nature and intended for educational purposes. Site visitors should not use them as medical advice. Determining the diagnosis and choosing a treatment method remains the exclusive prerogative of your attending physician.

Source: https://allergology.ru/prostuda/udushayuschiy-kashel-u-rebenka

Dr. Komarovsky will tell you how to help

If a child is choking and cannot cough, breathe or speak on his own, then in any case he must be provided with emergency first aid. It should be understood that the called ambulance simply will not have time to arrive and provide qualified assistance to the baby, since the child’s life counts in minutes. Dr. Komarovsky will tell you how to provide first aid if a child is choking.

What to do if a child is choking, Dr. Komarovsky advises in this video:

Prevention of troubles

To prevent situations where a child chokes on a foreign object, water, food, etc., it is necessary to take basic preventive precautions:

• Teach your child to eat slowly and chew food thoroughly;
• Babies under one year old need to grind their food into a paste;
• Newborns and infants should not be forced to eat, either from the breast or from a bottle, especially if he turns away, tries to get up or cries;
• Clean the premises regularly, remembering to throw away all small objects that could get into the child’s respiratory tract;
• Buy only safe toys without small parts, exclude buttons, beads, nuts and other things that can be put in your mouth or stuck in your nose from the gameplay.

How to treat a child who is suffocating with a night cough

Coughing attacks cause a lot of inconvenience to adults and young patients, but the latter’s cough brings more discomfort. It often happens that a child suffocates from coughing or experiences pain from constant attacks. Read on in the article about what to do in such a situation and whether you need to panic.

Nighttime coughing attacks are often a source of anxiety

Cough mechanism and why it is needed

The cough itself is a powerful defense mechanism of the body that helps clear the airways of any foreign objects or secretions. Cough can be caused by:

• allergic reactions;
• foreign objects (small parts, crumbs, drops of liquid);
• diseases.

It should be noted that this symptom can indicate not only inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract, but also problems with the heart or gastrointestinal tract. For example, the first may be indicated by frequent coughing at night.

A night cough sometimes signals heart problems

The symptom can be of two types:

• wet cough (productive) - it removes phlegm and clears the pathways;
• dry cough (non-productive) - it does not produce sputum.

From the point of view of the attending physician, the most desirable is a wet cough, as it removes mucus and does not allow it to sink lower. The constant removal of sputum prevents the growth of bacteria and speeds up the healing process. A dry cough only exhausts the body and irritates the mucous membrane, so they try to first treat this type, and only then treat it.

How to eliminate night cough

A child has a severe cough at night, what should I do? This question worries many parents. Due to the characteristics of the larynx in children, coughing is most difficult at night. During this period, attacks may be so severe that the child simply cannot fall asleep.

Coughing attacks may keep your child awake

It is worth distinguishing between an ordinary, albeit unpleasant, night cough and a paroxysmal cough - when the threat of suffocation seems quite real.

During a normal wet or dry cough, coughing lasts no more than a minute, and the child himself does not complain of dizziness or spasms. The only complaint during this period is, as usual, a sore throat.

But if a child has a seizure for 3-4 minutes, or when coughing there are clearly signs of breathing problems, this is a serious reason to worry.

It is important to remember that at the first suspicion of suffocation, you should call an ambulance! Failure to provide timely medical care can lead to death. It is strictly forbidden to self-medicate, since there are many infections and diseases that provoke such an attack. Only a doctor can determine the cause and correctly prescribe the appropriate treatment.

It is important to provide all the necessary information about the course of the child’s illness:

• when did the first symptoms appear?

If the child's condition worsens, call a doctor immediately

• what drugs were given;
• what procedures were carried out;
• How did the disease develop?

In addition, the lungs must be listened to. This allows for an even more accurate diagnosis. After visiting a doctor, you must strictly adhere to his recommendations.

What can be done in the early stages

If a child can breathe when coughing, but there is noticeable deterioration, several methods can be used. It should be recalled that, first of all, you need to see a doctor! Only he will be able to prescribe the medications the child needs.

Herbal teas can be taken as an addition to the main treatment

In parallel with the main treatment program, to alleviate the condition, you can:

• take herbal teas;
• do inhalations;
• maintain the microclimate in the room.

If a child suffers from a dry cough, then the last point is especially important, since the correct microclimate can significantly alleviate the condition. To ensure it you need:

• eliminate dust and regularly do wet cleaning;
• maintain the temperature at 18-20 degrees;
• regularly ventilate the room;
• make the air more humid.

Regular wet cleaning will help remove dust.

The latter will soften the mucous membrane, which will reduce discomfort when coughing.

If a child suffers from the wet type, then inhalations and teas will come in handy. Regarding the latter, it is better to consult a doctor so that herbal infusions do not conflict with medications.

If this is not possible, you can completely limit yourself to warm milk or tea with honey.

These drinks will soften the sore and sore throat, which is especially important before bedtime - they will calm spasms and reduce discomfort in the little patient.

Inhalations can also be done with herbs, but just holding the little patient over the steam from hot water will be no less effective. To reduce the risk that a choking cough attack will occur at night, you should periodically turn the child during sleep - this will prevent mucus from accumulating in one place and causing an attack.

Why are coughing attacks dangerous for children?

As mentioned above, the structure of the larynx in adults and children is slightly different. In addition, it is worth considering the volume of the lungs - that for older people there is only a small accumulation of sputum, for younger people it is a serious danger.

A severe cough can cause whooping cough, so it is important to get vaccinated on time

This is why it is so important to make a timely and accurate diagnosis - without treatment, any attempts to cure a cough will be useless. The only exceptions are those cases when the infection or disease concerns the respiratory tract directly.

A striking example is whooping cough. Despite vaccination, the infection is still common. It is especially difficult for children under 2 years of age, although it poses a threat even at older ages.

The whooping cough bacterium triggers the body's defense reflex, causing severe and prolonged attacks.

When this is combined with increased sputum production, the risk of airway blockage increases significantly.

If a child begins to choke more and more often when coughing, and the sputum does not come out, you need to urgently contact the nearest clinic.

Lack of timely medical care can lead to serious health consequences! Only a specialist can accurately diagnose and select treatment in accordance with the stage of the disease and the age of the patient.

When drawing up a treatment plan, the personal characteristics of each patient are taken into account.

Whooping cough is caused by bacteria, and this disease is not always quickly diagnosed; if you have the slightest suspicion, consult a doctor

It also needs to be emphasized that parents should not be afraid of prescribing antibiotics and other potent drugs. Sometimes this is a necessity that can not only alleviate the child’s condition, but also save his life. Certain infections do not respond to any other treatment.

What can a night cough mean?

This symptom may indicate a variety of diseases, however, an experienced doctor can determine by the sound what the child is experiencing now or what is worth paying attention to. Parents should also know this list in order to promptly contact the nearest clinic for advice:

• frequent coughing – the pleura suffers;
• loud, hacking cough – suspicion of laryngitis;
• paroxysmal, often recurring – whooping cough is possible;

Attacks of night cough may occur with laryngitis

• coughing at night - suspicion of a problem with the cardiovascular system;
• if an attack occurs after a change in body position, sinusitis/tonsillitis is possible;
• dry and severe attack - problems with the bronchi.

It is worth noting that if the patient suffers from a cough after eating, then it is worth checking the child for the presence of pathology of the esophagus. It is also important that the cause of a hacking cough can be an allergy. Children are especially susceptible to this, so it is worth immediately determining the nature of the symptom. It is possible that the provocateur could be:

• dust;
• Pets;
• feather pillows.

Another cause of cough may be pet hair.

This option cannot be excluded, since allergic reactions can be no less severe and dangerous than infectious or viral diseases. In severe cases, susceptible people suffocate from coughing.

Results

If a child suffocates at night from a paroxysmal cough, it is worth clearly distinguishing between habitual attacks and those that threaten life.

Accumulations of sputum, an uncomfortable position and the neglected condition of a small patient can become fatal if you do not seek help from a medical facility in time.

The best thing to do is to consult a doctor in the early stages, when any disease is much easier to treat.

In addition, in the event of infectious diseases, you can protect the child’s environment, thereby preventing problems for the whole family.

To relieve an attack, doctors recommend inhalation

If the child has a seizure at night, then it is necessary:

• strictly adhere to the doctor’s prescription;
• maintain the desired microclimate in the room;
• do inhalations;
• Take a warm drink like milk or tea.

Adults need to closely monitor the development of the disease. If an acute attack has caused the baby to lack air, you must urgently call an ambulance! In this case, the dispatcher should report that the patient is choking due to coughing - then a suitably equipped team will respond to the call.

If the child begins to choke from coughing, call an ambulance immediately

Parents need to remember that any cough is an alarming symptom that cannot be ignored. Timely treatment will ease the course of the disease and prevent the development of complications.

You can learn how to treat night cough in children from the following video:

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