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What Causes Cough With Excess Mucus?
My 7 month old baby boy has had a cough for weeks. He has had bronchialitis twice, within a 5 month period and before that, at 10 days old, he had viral meningitis. He hasn t seemed to have had a couple of weeks, in his little life, when he has been 100%. I last went to the doctors and he was diagnosed with bronchialitis, with one of the symptoms being that he coughs frequently and is very sick. Sometimes more than once a day. He brings up a lot of mucous and whatever he has eaten, including breastmilk. Should I go back to see my doctor? Lucy
Tue, 25 Apr 2017
Hello Lucy!
I can understand your concern.
May i have a more detailed history?Is there family history of asthma or allergy?
i would like you to get your child's serum immunoglobulin levels checked because he had one life threatening infection in 1st year of life and repeated episodes of infective illness.Though this time its viral and it will settle on its own but still i would recommend to go for that.
Give him saline nebulizations 6 hourly with 10 drops of salbutamol solution. Take care of the heart rate,if it increases more than 150/min,stop nebulizations.
Give him syp. Doxophylline 2.5 ml Twice daily for 1 week and monteleukast sachet 4mg at night for 3 months.
Give him some good anti histamines like levocetrizine for a week.
You can also give a natural icy leaves extract containing syp. twice daily for a week or try home remedies like a teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water given once daily.
Hope it will help.
Wishing your child good health :-)
I can understand your concern.
May i have a more detailed history?Is there family history of asthma or allergy?
i would like you to get your child's serum immunoglobulin levels checked because he had one life threatening infection in 1st year of life and repeated episodes of infective illness.Though this time its viral and it will settle on its own but still i would recommend to go for that.
Give him saline nebulizations 6 hourly with 10 drops of salbutamol solution. Take care of the heart rate,if it increases more than 150/min,stop nebulizations.
Give him syp. Doxophylline 2.5 ml Twice daily for 1 week and monteleukast sachet 4mg at night for 3 months.
Give him some good anti histamines like levocetrizine for a week.
You can also give a natural icy leaves extract containing syp. twice daily for a week or try home remedies like a teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water given once daily.
Hope it will help.
Wishing your child good health :-)
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