Dr Vandan H KumarFather of a 7 yr 4 m old boy1 Year agoA. regular cough and cold in children are most commonly associated with allergy which might be due to weather changes on temperature variations.
many times simple cough and cold is followed by secondary infections.
it is very common that children will have a recurrent cough and cold as well as fever before 7 years of age and after that a proper immunity is developed and then this problem will god away.
get the child vaccinated for flu vaccine which will again help in decreasing this problem
Dr Sameer awadhiyaGuardian of 2 children1 Year agoA. Cough along with Cold and fever most of the time is a viral illness or allergic and it needs supportive care along with proper hydration needs to be maintained. you can give steam inhalation which may be useful .
cough needs to be treated with medicine like anti allergic expectorant bronchodilators antitussives or cough suppresents medicine which should be given only after a proper evaluation by the doctor according to the type of cough and need.
In severe cough nebulisation can be given where medicine directly gets dilivered in the respiratory tract.
Also if fever is there paracetamol can be given to reduce the fevehior and the dose is 15 mg/ kg body weight and can be repeated after 6 hours again if required .
Hofme remedies like Tulsi & ginger mix in honey can be tried for soothing.
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