儿童慢性咳嗽的中医诊治体会

The experience of diagnosis and treatment of infantile chronic cough in children with TCM

儿童慢性咳嗽临床可因外感风邪内犯于肺,肺气失于宣肃而发生咳嗽;也有脾虚不运,痰湿内生,上渍于肺,壅塞肺气而致咳嗽痰多;也有外感咳嗽治疗不当,迁延不愈,致阴虚或肺脾气虚。治疗时根据患儿症状、体征,从风、痰、虚论治小儿久咳,可以取得较好的疗效。

Chronic cough in children can be developed from lung due to exogenous pathogenic wind and impassability of lung qi. It can also be developed from excessive phlegm due to spleen deficiency and weak digestion or internal phlegm damp damaging lung and choking lung qi. Chronic cough sometimes happened because of improper treatment of exogenous cough, with protected course of disease, leading to yin deficiency or lung spleen-deficiency. It should be treated according to children＇ s symptoms and signs and from the aspects of wind, phlegm and deficiency so that we can obtain good curative effect.