Patient's question:
A baby who is more than 12 months old has been coughing for three days. Today, they switched to taking traditional Chinese medicine. They had pneumonia once when they were around five to six months old. This time, the cough has a rattling sound, and it's continuous. There is phlegm and clear nasal discharge. After taking Western medicine for three days, it didn't help, so I told the doctor to switch to traditional Chinese medicine. The cough feels very painful. In the afternoon on the third day, a different sound started, and it occasionally occurs today as well. Is it a recurrence of pneumonia? When they went to see a doctor, they didn't have a fever, but in the afternoon today, they had a fever of 38 degrees Celsius. They took fever-reducing medicine, and the fever went down.Doctor's answer:
Little baby has a fever, first find the main cause. Below 38.5 degrees, it is recommended not to use medication to reduce fever temporarily, and physical cooling methods can be used. In your case, first determine what type of cough it is, as there are various types such as wind-cold, wind-heat, deficiency, and possibly just a dry cough. It needs to be judged by combining the symptoms, the condition of phlegm, and other accompanying conditions. Whether it is contagious needs to be checked by blood tests. If the cough still persists and there is phlegm, you can go to the hospital for to relieve it.