Cough in children. Diagnosis and approaches to therapy
N.G. Kolosova

Sechenov University, Moscow

Cough is one of the most frequent symptoms of respiratory tract diseases and is a protective reflex aimed at cleansing the airways in conditions of insufficient mucociliary clearance. In accordance with some characteristics of cough, doctors can often determine the localization, and sometimes even the nature of the disease that causes it. Cough can be productive and not productive by nature (depending on the presence of sputum, cough can be acute, subacute or chronic depending on its duration). The cause of acute cough is usually upper and lower respiratory tract infections, in addition, cough may indicate a disease that the doctor can not miss, such as bronchial asthma, bronchiolitis, whooping cough, pneumonia and aspiration of foreign bodies. Subacute coughing can be caused by hyperreactivity of the airways after an infection, whooping cough, bronchial asthma. The effectiveness of cough treatment largely depends on a correctly and timely diagnosed disease and is aimed at diluting sputum, reducing its adhesiveness (viscosity) and increasing the effectiveness of coughing. If it is necessary to prescribe antibacterial therapy, the drug of choice in this case is tiamphenicol glycinate acetylcysteinate (TGA), which is used in the form of inhalation.

Key words: children, cough, respiratory diseases, mucolytic therapy, antibacterial therapy, inhalation therapy, thiamphenicol glycinate acetylcysteinate (TGA).
For citation: Kolosova N.G. Cough in children. Diagnosis and approaches to therapy // RMJ. 2018. № 10 (I). P. 40–43.