Recognize Coughing

Coughing is a symptom and not the disease. Generally, the cough associated with respiratory illness in the channel, lungs, heart, stomach, and emotional disturbances.

Therefore, to treat coughs should be completely known cause. Everyone is coughing once. In fact, the baby was already there with a cough. Including cough is most often being sighed, but also the most often considered to be negligible. Coughing is usually the emergence of flu as usual. However, if you have excessive cough and cough so the start is not as regular cough.

Natural, cough is the actual body defense mechanism to protect the lungs and respiratory channels by a foreign object because of the disrupt in the air. When coughing, the body cleaning the airways associated with the respiratory.

There is an inflammation or irritation to the respiratory tract mucous layer, allergy to dust, cigarette smoke, vehicle smoke, fumes or chemicals cause someone to cough.

Is the throat while breathing. In the throat, there is a lot of hair that always move shakes and wipe function that enter a foreign object. If you're in the mop up will be a cough reflex to protect the respiratory tract for smooth circulation of air.

Coughing is a disease with a simple light. Factors as causes of turnover from the outside because the seasons, allergies, the air is dirty, be someone who is suffering from cough.

Cough most often suspected being suffered by many people at the transition of seasons. When the transition occurs, suddenly the air temperature change which is very influential in the health body. (various sources)

The Use of Coughing Drugs on Children

Coughing is a symptom that most of the children with acute infection on the top of breath channel. In daily practical, the absorption of cough medicines are often not based on understanding and consideration of both the benefits and the risks increase the use of cough medicine that is less rational. For examples, in daily, there are too many absorption of types of cough medicine in a prescription (polipharmacy) and / or the use of doses that are too high, said dr. Rianto Setiabudy, Strategy seminar at The Clinical Approach to the Professional Children Coughing, some time ago, in Jakarta.

There are many cough abating medicine that is used in some countries, for example, codeine, dekstrometorfan, prometazin, various other antihistamine, mucolithic, etc.. Although widely used, in fact some of drugs has some efficacy which does not exceed placebo, the others the efficacy is not based on evidence-based medicine. The note also that, in general, these drugs have side effects.

Based on the occurrence time, the experts generally divide cough in the 2 groups, namely acute cough and cough chronicles. Acute cough will be calm in 1-3 days even if it had not been given any medication for self-limiting.

The medication of acute cough should be based on efforts to find and overcome the causes, not with the type or dose of cough medicine. Cough etiology chronicles the children also appeared frequently with different etiology in adults.

In the medication of cough is recommended to do the watch, wait and review.

In the use of cough medicines should also be understood that cough is one of the defense mechanism of the body is important. Therefore, the cough reflex can not be pressed too great with the drugs, even the manifestation is a dry cough.