#asktheexperts For the past 4 months , my son is not keeping well on and off , he gets cold and now he has started getting a high fever , whenever he goes to school every 15 days, he develops wheezing and coughing, what should I give to him to make him strong internally or any medicine to relieve his bronchial coughing

A. Cold most of the time is a viral illness where there could be running nose sneezing along with cough and it needs supportive care along with proper hydration . steam inhalation will also be useful in this . cough needs to be treated with anti allergic and expectorant bronchodilators or antitussives medicine which should be used once a proper evaluation by the doctor is done and according to the type of cough its preschkiribed. if any fever is there paracetamol can be givefn to reduce the temperature and the dose can be repeated again after 6 hours if required .