In order to treat cough, some people like cough medicine at bedtime, night cough can be prevented so that does not affect sleep, in fact, this is not good.
Cough was able to cough, because it can act on the cough center, respiratory receptors and sensory nerve endings, inhibiting the cough reflex. Although the cough stopped coughing, but it caused a retention of mucus in the respiratory tract, airway obstruction easily. Sleep after parasympathetic excitability, leading to bronchial smooth muscle contraction, so that deformation of the bronchial lumen narrowing. In the more narrow the lumen, the obstruction with sputum, will lead to a serious shortage of lung ventilation, causing the body hypoxia, heart choking, breathing difficulties. The results not only can not take cough medicine to safely sleep and, it will therefore increase the discomfort.
Cough with phlegm in the patient’s trachea, in addition to aggressive treatment of existing diseases, should also use cough expectorant drugs, these drugs are mainly medicine, such as Cough fruit balls, pass Lifei pills, tablets compound Chuanbei , cough Pipa Lu, etc., Western ammonium chloride, potassium iodide has expectorant effect, they can become thin some of the sticky sputum, cough facilitate smooth, so that the symptoms of cough, reduce or cure.
The cause of many causes coughing, coughing when there are more serious, or persistent cough should be beyond the week to the hospital for timely treatment, exclude the possibility of pulmonary tuberculosis, and to find out the cause remedy. Self-medication will delay treatment, leading to worse.