Summary Coughing in toddlers and babies is a common symptom and is harmless in most cases. As in adults, coughing in babies serves as a protective reflex that clears the airways of foreign bodies (e.g. leftover food) or secretions.Since babies in particular still have a very weakly developed immune system, they suffer more frequently from … Summary | Coughing at the baby
Introduction Nearly every baby will suffer from coughing once in addition to a cold, which understandably worries many parents. However, coughing is not an illness in itself, but a symptom that can occur in the context of many diseases. There are completely harmless types of cough, but there are also some forms with which one … Coughing at the baby
Causes In principle, coughing is a useful reaction of the body. It is a reflex that occurs when substances have entered the airways that cannot be removed by the cilia on the mucosal cells and thus hinder breathing. These substances can be mucus, food residues or inhaled foreign bodies. The most common expression of a … Causes | Coughing at the baby
Symptoms The cough is, as I said, a symptom in itself. However, it can be accompanied by other (disease-specific) symptoms, depending on what caused it.With the (pseudo) croup, the cough sounds quite characteristically “barking”, it can however also be dry (with allergies and asthma), moist (in the course of a respiratory tract infection) or rattling. … Symptoms | Coughing at the baby
Diagnosis The diagnosis of a disease associated with coughing is usually relatively easy for a pediatrician. If the parents can report the exact nature, frequency and severity of the symptoms and the child presents typical symptoms, the diagnosis can usually be made as a gaze or hearing diagnosis (in the case of a barking cough, … Diagnosis | Coughing at the baby
