Why are so many children diagnosed with bronchitis and what is it? How is it treated and does parents need to take antibiotics for children?Here are the answers to each of these questions.
1. Bronchitis is a disease that is diagnosed based on symptoms.
The diagnosis of bronchitis does exist in clinical，which usually occurs after a cold caused by a viral infection that mainly affects the tracheobronchial tubes, with cough as the main symptom of the syndrome. [1]
It is because of that disease is diagnosed based on symptoms, the clinical diagnosis of bronchitis is most likely to acorrding to the syndromes that start with a cough with no typical cold symptoms.
2. Waiting for self-healing.
Coughing after a cold caused by a viral infection usually lasts for 2-3 weeks. Parents need to understand the basic rules of the disease and know how to observe and assess the severity of their child's illness. A child with a mild post-cold cough can wait for it to heal on its own, but a blind visit to the doctor may result in the doctor bringing a diagnosis of suspected bronchitis for the child to reduce medical risk.
3. How to treat acute bronchitis in children or to take antibiotics?
Acute bronchitis in children mainly affects the upper respiratory tract, which is limited to the nasopharynx as in the case of colds, which caused by viral infection, so antibiotics do not improve the condition[1,2] . Neither cough suppressants nor expectorants should be used in children under 6 years of age, and the recommended treatment is to wait for the disease to heal on its own.
Standardized treatment is also an important way to improve the trust between doctors and patients, and the ultimate benefit will be for both doctors and patients when the trust is rebuilt.
