Recently, the number of children with pneumonia has increased sharply, the children are timely, and most of them heal well, but some children have long-term chronic cough, once the cold and cough are aggravated, it is obvious at night or early in the morning, affecting the rest of the children and their parents, and some children have repeated hospital outpatient clinics and medications, and the effect is not good, causing parents to be anxious. In fact, some children suffer from "cough variant asthma".
When a child coughs for a long time, a series of clinical changes will occur, which will evolve into a new disease. One of the most common is cough-variant asthma.
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory inflammatory disease in children, which can cause regurgitation, coughing, wheezing, chest tightness and difficulty breathing.
Due to the lack of understanding of asthma by many parents, coupled with the symptoms of cold and asthma, the two are like a pair of "twins" It is easy to confuse, and some parents mistakenly regard their children's asthma cough as a cold cough.
Cough variant asthma is a specific type of asthma with cough as the main symptom.
The clinical manifestations are persistent, dry cough, especially at night and in the early morning. Although it does not have obvious typical asthma symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness, there is airway hyperresponsiveness. In addition, severe cough may be accompanied by shortness of breath, chest tightness, and dyspnea.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to strengthening and correcting, and has more advantages in regulating physical fitness and enhancing immunity. The pathogenesis of cough-variant asthma is:"Lungs, spleen, kidneys".The dysfunction of the three organs leads to lung loss, congestion, and cough caused by the reversal of lung qi.
Traditional Chinese medicine regulates the function of the internal organs through syndrome differentiation and treatment, so that the body's qi, blood, yin and yang can be balanced, and immunity can be enhanced, so as to reduce symptoms or reduce the frequency of attacks.
Liver soothing and depressing:Liver Qi stagnation is often the main cause of cough variant asthma, and TCM usually uses methods such as using to relieve liver depressionBupleurum, green skin, incense, citrus aurantiumand other medicines, so that the liver qi can be dredged.
Spleen and stomach conditioning:Spleen deficiency and dampness are one of the important factors causing cough variant asthma. Adopt methods to nourish the spleen and invigorate qi, strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, such as:Astragalus, Atractylodes, Codonopsis, Magnoliaand other drugs, which can enhance the function of the spleen and stomach and eliminate dampness.
Clearing heat and reducing gas:Asthma attacks are often associated with lung heat and qi stagnation, so the method of clearing heat and reducing gas is adopted, such as:Gypsum, raw gypsum, kudzu, mulberry white barkand other drugs, which can clear away heat and detoxify and reduce local inflammatory response in the lungs.
Nourish the lungs and kidneys:Lung Qi and Kidney Essence is the source of life, and it is also necessary to regulate Lung Qi and Kidney Essence in the event of asthma, such asHuai yam, wolfberry, cistancheand other medicinal materials, which can strengthen the nourishment of lung qi and kidney essence, improve physical fitness, and reduce the frequency of asthma attacks.