How to treat cough and phlegm in children

Children cough with a lot of sputum, which is usually caused by respiratory tract infections. If thin sputum is coughed, it may be an upper respiratory tract infection or a viral infection in the early stage; if thick yellow sputum or mucous sputum is coughed, it may be combined with bacterial infection or mycoplasma infection. etc. If you cough up thin sputum, accompanied by fever or low-grade fever, you can generally give your child some antiviral drugs; If there is yellow thick sputum, there is high fever, it is recommended to go to the hospital to see a doctor, see if there is tracheitis, pneumonia, etc., only tracheal inflammation without other accompanying symptoms, you can give the child to eat a little cough expectorant drugs or penicillin, cephalosporins drugs; If there is mycoplasma infection, you can eat some macrolides drugs, such as azithromycin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, etc., generally cough expectorant and anti-inflammatory drugs at the same time.