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 that and never gave it to my children.

Try GELOMETROL FORTE (I think) – they're capsules, smell like pine needles – that'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 go to a homeopathic hospital!!!

What tests did you take to be sure 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 illnesses in childhood and had no allergies... Later, I was diagnosed with chronic laryngitis. If I got even slightly chilled, I would have a constant barking cough. That's exactly what haunted me until about age 6, and I remember all of it myself.
I was cured exclusively by the sea. In the summer, we would spend about two months at the seaside, taking turns—my mom and dad, and my grandparents. We traveled like that for two or three summers, and they also made me gargle with water and sea salt... and we forgot about the laryngitis.

Asthma

Most often, children who are very afraid of something cough psychosomatically. Ask yourself—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 don't clean and disinfect them properly. Be sure to see another allergist and a pediatric pulmonologist—that's someone who specializes in 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, you rarely 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.

Maybe it's whooping cough. I had a persistent cough as a child, no fever, felt fine, even went to school until it suddenly got really bad.

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

Only freshly squeezed juices. You need to check for mold, 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 might be the same. My child coughed due to an allergy to house dust, and I had to spend a crazy amount of money on a super vacuum that sucked everything out of pillows, blankets, sheets, mattresses. Maybe there's some factory near your house? Or are the classroom partitions at school made of hazardous material? Keep looking, 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 on whether you need a phthisiatrician.

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

Ribomunil and the two-month cough are gone.

First, you need to find 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 fever. It needs to be treated because it can lead to lung complications. Try Joset, mustard plasters with vodka and honey at night, and possibly antibiotics might be needed. 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 great!! If possible, take the child to the coast for a couple of weeks—sea air is very beneficial for kids with various kinds of such conditions.

Try giving Suprastin anyway (even though you've seen an allergist, it's simply impossible to test for EVERYTHING). Is your home not dry? Such a cough often occurs 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, and it has now passed. But I have a humidifier running constantly. If you don’t have a humidifier—place a wet towel on the radiator and set out containers with water.

My child also had that 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 on 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.

The recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of mustard, 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 hurt to breathe. I went to the doctor, and it turns out I cracked a rib from coughing. The doctor said that happens sometimes and prescribed a very strong cough medication.

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

Back in my student years, I once had a cough that lasted for six months. Dry, exhausting... I’d start saying something or laughing—and an attack would last 15 minutes. Nothing helped—neither medication nor home remedies. Doctors just shrugged.

It went away on its own.

Thank you, I've written down all the advice and copied the medication names to show the pediatrician. Maybe they'll have some suggestions. Although the pediatrician said we might have to give antibiotics, I really don't want to: the lungs are clear, the X-ray looks good, there's no fever—if we bombard with antibiotics now, what will we do later?

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

We are exactly in the Moscow region.

My sister treated her child for a cough for 6 weeks, but it turned out the child had gastrointestinal issues. Once they started treating the GI tract, the cough lessened by the end of the first day, and after 2 days, the cough that had plagued the child for weeks disappeared completely. If you don’t have 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 be due to 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 sweets and fatty foods, and include more simple dishes. Pay attention to the water—try to find good, clean water and cook only with it. Think back to what changed in the diet or perhaps in your home two months ago.

It's most likely nerves, I had that happen twice—once when I was about 5 and again during my college years.

Yeah, it's probably not nerves—what does a 6-year-old have to be nervous about?

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 improvement yourself.

Also, a honey compress 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 wrap, then wrap it with a scarf to keep it in place, put on pajamas, and sleep through the night. The honey may drip when warmed, so the scarf will get stained, but it washes out completely. Still, don’t use a new or expensive one. This method should be done daily for several days in a row, but only if the cough is NOT allergic in nature.

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

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

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

There can be many causes for a cough, but what I've learned is that you shouldn't take expectorants for too long—only 3 to 5 days—and then wait, focusing only on warming treatments. Otherwise, you might inadvertently prolong the cough yourself.

Tracheitis, all the symptoms match, I was sick myself recently... The doctors couldn't make a diagnosis because every time I went to the doctor, they asked me to cough... and I couldn't, probably because the office was being sanitized with UV light. 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.

Котя, I'm begging you, how exactly did you make this broth that helped you? Maybe it could relieve not just my cough, but also help the little ones. Please jot down a couple of lines.

Mom, if it really is tracheitis, then antibiotics are needed, since the body hasn't been able to fight it off for so long. Sumamed. Onion solution won't be enough here.

Author, have you had blood tests done? The thing is, my daughter also had a prolonged cough (right up until New Year's, 2 months!). We tried every medication from the pharmacy, had X-rays done, visited a pulmonologist, allergist, and 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, all the medications even gave her an allergy to them. 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 antibiotics, and everything cleared up. That's how it went, while not a single doctor at the clinic could diagnose it. But this is just my personal experience, maybe it will be helpful.

I'll add that the ambulance crew recommended getting a nebulizer—it's an excellent device; it cures 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, since coughing for two months had become unbearable.

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

Nebulizers can be either stationary, designed for use in healthcare facilities, or portable, used by asthma patients independently to prevent and relieve bronchial asthma attacks. Depending on the method of dispersion, there are compression and ultrasonic nebulizers.

Get a blood test. Antibiotics only make sense 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 the cough would be bloody.
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. It was diagnosed in the 4th month. Before that, they scared us and treated him with all sorts of nasty stuff.

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

Sumamed is a good medication. It was prescribed for my daughter too. I liked 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 all the doctors. In the end, we got tested for viruses, chlamydia, mycoplasma, and herpes. Mycoplasma pneumoniae was found. We treated it with antibiotics—two courses of Sumamed in a row. We felt better immediately. Then, a month later, everything started all over again. Mycoplasma again, in the highest titers M. Antibiotics again (you can’t just get rid of mycoplasma that easily 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 that I've been to several doctors.

Stop all expectorants! Drink plenty of fluids!!! Cough can be 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, etc. But! Not a single doctor mentioned the importance of drinking plenty of water! Keep the air at home cool (no higher than 20°C) and humidity at least 50%. I learned 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 took a lot of antibiotics for nothing! Try seeing a pulmonologist instead of a pediatrician.