really bad cough?

Question

cant seem to keep my little girl from coughing she has been coughing for 9 days and she cant even sleep what can i do to help i have tried to use the cough and cold meds but they dont work either

Answer 1

It sounds like she might have a respiratory infection or bronchitis or somthing similar. She needs to see a doctor. That has happened to me before, and when i went to the doctors they said it was a respiratory infection and they gave me some anti-inflamatory pills. Make sure she drinks lots of liquids too. Good luck! :)

Answer 2

My daughter has asthma. The only symptoms she ever has of having an attack is coughing, and sometimes coughing with a headache. She could also be having post nasal drip from allergies causing a constant cough. Safest thing is to have her pediatrician diagnose it. Hope you find out soon, and she is better quickly!

Answer 3

The dreaded thing no one wants to hear - she needs to go to the doctor - nine days is too long for a little girl to be coughing.

Answer 4

A lot of that cough medicine isn't really good either. Definitely take her in. Try warm apple cider/juice
or tea w. honey.

Answer 5

go see a pediatrician, might be an allergic rhinitis or asthma, with that long, just seek professional help

Answer 6

She seems to have infections. Please take her to a doctor immediately. You should not wait for so long to take a decision. In the mean time you try these home remedies.
Please let me know the nature of her cough. Whether it is dry, hacking, whooping, with or without expectoration, the full details of time of aggravation and how does she get relief, lying down, on her sides, everything you can tell me.

HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH
* Prepare a mixture by adding ½ teaspoon honey with ½ teaspoon lemon juice. Take this every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moisturizing the throat passage
* Take 0.5 pounds (250 gms) of sweet apples daily for a week to cure cough.
* Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. Make a paste of the soaked almonds with little butter and sugar. This is very useful for dry cough.
* Mix 8 - 10 tablespoons of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed.
* Prepare a mixture by adding a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. It helps to relieve cough.
* Mix equal parts of limejuice and honey.
* Combine a cup of grape juice and a teaspoon of honey. Mix well to prepare an effective remedy for coughing.
* Mix 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey. Keep it aside for 3 to 4 hours before drinking.
* Apply hot mustard pack on the chest. This brings down fever, eliminates toxins and speeds in recovery. If needed, repeat every other day for a week.
* Deep breathe in front of an open window. This has multiple benefits. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen.
* Chop an onion finely, put it with a tablespoon of clear honey in a screw-top jar and leave overnight. In the morning, drinking a teaspoonful of the juice produced will give relief to cough.
* Garlic-and-onion chicken soup is also an effective remedy for cough .
* Drink hot tea with lemon and raspberry jam, drink as much as possible.
* Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.
* Slice 2 snow pears into small pieces. Add 3 bowls of water and boil until the water has reduced to 2 bowls. Strain and discard the pears, and add 30 grams of rice to the liquid. Boil again until rice is cooked. Drink the soup.
* Peel 50 grams fresh ginger and cut into small slices. Boil the slices with 100 grams maltose in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day.
* Boil 20 red dates with 60 grams maltose in enough water. Eat once a day.
* Prepare a mixture of 5 fresh-pitted olives and rock sugar; steam them for half an hour. Eat the olives to help with chronic coughs.
* Steam 2 unpeeled tangerines with 30 grams rock sugar to relieve coughs with a yellowish mucous discharge. Eat the tangerines at bedtime.
* In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.
* In one cup of warm milk, add 2 – 3 strands of saffron (kesar) and drink twice a day.
* Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon with ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day till symptoms subside.
* Take 1 cup of water and add 4-5 leaves of tulsi; a small piece of ginger (adrak) and 1 teaspoon of jaggery. Boil this mixture over slow heat till the quantity becomes half a cup. Drink this at least 2 times in a day.