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Introduction

Introduction Cough and numbness and cough. Foreign matter (irritating gas or water, food, etc.) enters the trachea and causes a cough and suddenly spurts out. The throat is rich in nerve distribution. When it is stimulated by foreign matter that is accidentally inserted by drowning, it produces a defensive cough, forcing foreign matter to escape and protecting the lower respiratory tract. When people eat and swallow, they hate to cover their throats. At this time, if you just want to talk, people will inhale, and the food is in the throat, it is easy to enter the trachea with the air, causing severe cough, children coughing or itching throat is more dangerous than adults.

Cause

Cause

Causes of coughing: central nervous system, cranial nerve diseases (such as acute poliomyelitis, diphtheria neuritis, multiple encephalitis, encephalitis, brainstem encephalitis, etc.), Parkinson's disease, also known as tremor paralysis, Myasthenia gravis, esophageal foreign body.

Stimulating factors: above the large bronchi, which are sensitive to mechanical stimuli, and below the secondary bronchus are sensitive to chemical stimuli.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

Bronchography

Central nervous system, cranial nerve diseases (such as acute poliomyelitis, diphtheria neuritis, multiple encephalitis, encephalitis, brainstem encephalitis, etc.): firstly, the speech is easy to fatigue, and occasionally the speech is unclear (with nasal sound). Dysphagia is first manifested as rapid eating and drinking, and it is easy to cause cough. The liquid can flow back from the nostrils. The severely advanced diseased population often opens, saliva overflows, can't talk and swallow.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Cough in children: Cough may be the only symptom in children, mainly long-term intractable dry cough, often induced by inhalation of irritating odor, cold air, exposure to allergens, exercise or upper respiratory tract infection, and some children do not have any incentives. More intensified at night or in the early hours of the morning. Some children have a certain seasonality, which is more in spring and autumn. Most of the children have been treated with cough and expectorant and antibiotics for a period of time, almost no effect, and the use of glucocorticoids, anti-allergic drugs, 2 receptor agonists and theophylline can be alleviated.

Dry cough in children: Most of them are allergic cough, found in children with allergic rhinitis, allergic bronchitis in children.

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