Child's cough hasn't gone away for almost 2 months

I was so sick as a child... But I had allergies!! And you say you don't have any... Strange! It sounds like the beginning of bronchial asthma or something like that.

From what you're taking, I've never used any of it and never gave it to my children.

Try GELOMETROL FORTE (I think) – they're capsules that smell like pine – it's the only thing that helped me!!!! ACC too... that's if it's a cold-related cough!!! Otherwise, for prevention, you can still take Suprastin or Diazolin... And another piece of advice is to visit a homeopathic hospital!!!

What tests did you undergo to confirm it's not an allergy?

Did you get tested for parasites, giardia, viruses, and immune markers (mycoplasma, herpes, chlamydia, etc.)?

Before you start fighting, you need to understand what you're fighting against.

I also had such severe illnesses in childhood and there was no allergy... later I was diagnosed with chronic laryngitis, I'd get a slight chill and then a constant barking cough, that's what haunted me until about the age of 6, and I remember it all myself.

I was cured exclusively by the sea, spending about two months at the seaside in the summer, with my mum and dad and grandparents taking turns looking after me. We travelled like that for two or three summers, and they made me gargle with sea salt water... and the laryngitis was forgotten.

Asthma

Most often, children who are very afraid of something cough psychosomatically. Ask yourself the question: what is your child afraid of?

Perhaps they have an allergy to dust and mites—these are tiny little bugs that infest the beds of those who do not clean and disinfect them properly. Be sure to visit another allergist and a paediatric pulmonologist—that's someone who deals with lungs.

Go to church and pray desperately to the Mother of God for your child to be healed. Give them three sips of holy water every morning on an empty stomach, order a Sorokoust—forty services for the health of your child.

Act on all fronts and directions.

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That sounds very much like laryngitis, and often there's no fever with it.

When you have a cough, it's rare for you to have a fever.

Asthma or laryngitis

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Eliminate all dairy from the diet out of curiosity. At least for 3-4 days. Give fruit tea. Juices. Let them eat what they want. Apples. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Perhaps whooping cough. I had a persistent cough as a child, without a fever and feeling fine overall—I even went to school—until it suddenly took a turn for the worse.

I'm already afraid it might be tuberculosis or something.

Only freshly squeezed juices. Need to check for mould, in the corners of the room, in the bathroom, in the kitchen. If the child's clothes are Chinese and dyed with who-knows-what paint, the toys could be the same. My child coughed due to an allergy to household dust, had to spend a fortune on a super vacuum cleaner that sucked everything out of pillows, duvets, sheets, mattresses. Could there be some factory near your house? Or are the classroom partitions at school made of hazardous material? Keep looking, and you'll find it.

You need to see an immunologist (they look for hidden causes of cough) and a pulmonologist. Start with them.

The pulmonologist will advise you themselves if you need a phthisiologist.

Maybe try badger fat? It helped me in my time. I drank it with milk. A lingering two-month cough went away quickly.

Ribomunil and the two-month cough have passed.

First, you need to identify the cause, and only then give the child badger fat to drink.

If you're in Moscow or the Moscow region, there's a virus going around—specifically a cough without a fever. It needs to be treated because it can lead to lung complications. Try Joset, mustard plasters with vodka and honey at night, and antibiotics might be necessary. BUT! Everything through a doctor!

I had that when I was 10—a dry cough from nerves, plus they suspected harmful substances in the Barbie doll. Ended up spending 40 days in the hospital, and the doll was banished to the balcony. The cough went away on its own.

Allergy.

By the way, the advice about the sea is really excellent!! If possible, take the child to the coast for a couple of weeks—sea air is very beneficial for children with various illnesses of this kind.

Try giving Suprastin anyway (even though you've seen an allergist, it's simply impossible to test for EVERYTHING). Is your home not dry? Often such a cough is due to dry air (radiators dry it out, and the child stays indoors due to illness—not going outside). My child also started coughing in December and coughed for about 2 months without a fever, but it has now passed. However, I have a humidifier running constantly. If you don't have a humidifier—place a damp towel on the radiator and set out containers of water.

My child also had this and it went away by the age of [unclear] without any sea. But he is allergic. The allergy didn't manifest in any way. So it's possible you also have an allergy.

Mix honey and flour, add a little dry mustard, make a flat cake, and wrap it to the back between the shoulder blades. It's better to cut an old sheet into wide strips because bandages roll up and are uncomfortable for the child, and let them wear it for as long as they can.

According to the recipe, the mustard should be 1 teaspoon, but I use less than 1/4 teaspoon because the skin later turns red and peels in that area.

Oh author, you really need to treat that cough quickly. I had such a severe cough for over a month, and then in the last week, chest pains started and it hurts to breathe. I went to the doctor, and it turns out I cracked a rib from coughing. The doctor said that can happen and prescribed a very strong cough medicine.

This cough resembles whooping cough. Oddly enough, cold, moist air helps. Our doctor advised us to hold the child near an open window during an attack.

Back in my student days, I once had a cough that dragged on for six months. Dry, exhausting... I'd start saying something or laughing—and a 15-minute attack would follow. Nothing helped—neither medication nor home remedies. Doctors just shrugged.

It went away on its own.

Thank you, I've noted all the advice and written down the medication names to show the paediatrician. Perhaps they can suggest something. Although the paediatrician said we might have to give antibiotics, I really don't want to: the lungs are clear, the X-ray is fine, there's no fever—if we start bombarding with antibiotics now, what will we do later?

We still have to make it to the sea, it's only February outside)

We're exactly in the Moscow region.

My sister spent six weeks treating her child for a cough, only to discover that the issue was actually with the child's gastrointestinal tract. Once they started treating the GI problems, the cough began to lessen by the end of the first day, and after two days, the cough that had plagued the child for several weeks completely disappeared. If you don't have access to a good doctor, try to understand your child's health yourself—listen to them. They might be complaining about something else that seems minor to you, but it could be the main cause of the cough. A cough can also arise from issues (not necessarily illnesses, but functional problems) with the liver, pancreas, intestines, thyroid, kidneys, or generally due to a weakened immune system.

Try adjusting the diet: reduce sugary and fatty foods, and incorporate more simple dishes. Pay attention to the water—try to find good, clean water and use it for cooking. Think back to what changed in the diet or perhaps in your home two months ago.

Most likely it's nerves, I've had that happen twice—once when I was about 5 and again during my student years.

It's unlikely to be nerves; what does he have to be nervous about at 6 years old?

Author, if it's not an allergic cough, then I've tested it on my 7-year-old son—Mukaltin. As strange and absurd as it may sound, include these simple, 3-kopeck tablets in your list of medications to take. Drink them for a few days, and you'll see the improvement yourself.


A honey compress also helps, but children hate it. Here’s how it’s done: apply natural honey to the chest and back at chest level, then place cabbage leaves over the honeyed areas. Cover everything with cling film, wrap it with a scarf to keep it in place, put on pyjamas, and sleep through the night. The honey may drip as it warms up, so the scarf will get stained—it washes out completely, but still, don’t use a new or expensive one. This method should be done every day for several days in a row, but only if the cough is NOT ALLERGIC in nature.


And buy Mukaltin—it certainly won’t make things worse.

The cough will probably take a long time to clear up if your immunity is low. Since there was an infection, it means it's a virus. The virus should have been tackled with Genferon Light. But I think even now, if you use the suppositories for a few days, it will help.

We've just recovered. The child coughed for five weeks, and I for eight. The child was diagnosed with tracheitis, and the doctor said it's always prolonged. We tried everything—medications, herbal remedies, and an inhaler. We even had to take Sumamed (

There can be many causes of a cough, but what I've learned is that you shouldn't take expectorants for too long—only for 3–5 days—and then wait, just applying warmth. Otherwise, you might inadvertently prolong the cough.

Tracheitis, all the symptoms match, I was recently ill myself... The doctors couldn't make a diagnosis because every time I went to the doctor, they asked me to cough... but I couldn't, probably because the room was being disinfected with quartz. For some reason, a simple onion broth helped me... there's a recipe online, and it's tasty by the way.

I googled it and got overwhelmed—onion broth with pine needles, onion broth made from onions, onion broth made from onion skins.

Kotya, I beg you, how exactly did you make this broth that helped you? Maybe it will relieve not just my cough, but also make life easier for the kids. Please jot down a couple of lines.

Mum, if it really is tracheitis, then antibiotics are needed, since the body hasn't been able to cope for so long. Sumamed. You can't get by with just onion solution.

Author, have you had a blood test done? The thing is, my daughter also had a prolonged cough (right up until New Year's, for 2 months!). We went through the entire pharmacy, had an X-ray, saw a pulmonologist, an allergist, an ENT specialist, and even consulted at the clinic affiliated with Morozov Hospital. She had coughing fits at night, sometimes to the point of vomiting. In the end, we even developed an allergy to all the medications. The cough persisted as it was. Finally, I called an ambulance for advice, the doctor heard my daughter coughing and said it was most likely pharyngitis, recommended taking antibiotics, and it all went away. That's how it was, yet not a single doctor at the clinic could make a diagnosis. But this is just my personal experience, might be useful.

I should add, the ambulance service recommended getting a nebuliser—it's an excellent thing; it treats any beginning cough in two days. I now give my daughter inhalations at the slightest hint of a cough, and that's it. Good luck.

I should add that I don't know exactly what my child had, and not a single doctor could give a precise diagnosis, so I turned to antibiotics out of sheer desperation, as coughing for two months had become unbearable.

A nebuliser (from the Latin nebula ≈ mist, cloud) is a device for administering inhalation therapy, utilising ultra-fine dispersion of a medicinal substance. It is used in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, bronchial asthma, and other respiratory conditions.

Nebulisers can be either stationary, designed for use in healthcare facilities, or portable, used independently by asthma sufferers to prevent and relieve asthma attacks. Depending on the method of dispersion, there are compressor and ultrasonic nebulisers.

Get a blood test done. Antibiotics are only worth giving if white blood cells/ESR are elevated.

Regarding tuberculosis... does anyone in your family have it? On an X-ray, I think it would be visible, and there would be coughing up blood.

With asthma, there are characteristic wheezes and whistles when breathing, coughing is difficult, and the child has shortness of breath during movement. Is that the case?

How does the child cough? Does it come in fits? If yes, it resembles whooping cough. If vaccinated, it could be a mild form of whooping cough, without fits, but it lasts a long time, maybe even 3–4 months. Then nothing needs to be done; it will go away on its own.

We had something similar at 3 years old. Whooping cough. He was vaccinated. Diagnosed in the 4th month. Before that, they scared us and treated him with all sorts of nasty stuff.

About the nebuliser—I confirm. It's a lifesaver!

Sumamed is a good medication. It was prescribed for my daughter too. I liked it when the doctor said that Sumamed acts directly on the site of infection, not on the whole body. And you don't have to take it for long. We were prescribed to take it for just three days.

Exactly the same story. We coughed for almost half a year. We visited almost every doctor. In the end, we got tested for viruses, chlamydia, mycoplasma, and herpes. Mycoplasma pneumoniae was found. We treated it with antibiotics—two consecutive courses of Sumamed. It got better immediately. Then, a month later, everything started all over again. Mycoplasma again, in the highest titres M. Antibiotics again (mycoplasma isn’t so easy to get rid of from the body). That’s what we console ourselves with.
Get tested.

I think you shouldn't be asking for advice here, but should rush to a doctor so they can examine your child and find the cause of the cough.

Are you stupid or something? You were told I've seen several doctors.

Stop all expectorants! Drink plenty of fluids!!! Coughing can occur due to throat inflammation, tracheitis, postnasal drip, and in all these cases, ACC and similar medications are unnecessary. We had a similar situation—a long and quite severe cough. We treated it with antibiotics, expectorants, and so on. But! Not a single doctor mentioned the need to drink plenty of water! Keep the air at home cool (no higher than 20°C) and humidity at least 50%. I read about this on Dr. Komarovsky's forum. In the end, we were diagnosed with asthma, but we spent time trying to find chlamydia, mycoplasma, and other infections, and needlessly took a lot of antibiotics! Try seeing a pulmonologist instead of a paediatrician.