前几天,有位同事打电话问我,刚满1岁半的儿子最近感冒咳嗽,而且痰多。像他这么小的孩子能用祛痰药吗?有适合小儿用的药吗?秋冬季节,儿童呼吸道疾病逐渐增多,最常见的症状便是咳嗽伴有痰液。不少家长认为咳嗽会伤害肺,习惯在孩子咳嗽时给他们服用止咳药,把“止咳”当成治疗目的。然而,止咳药使用不当非但无效,有时甚至适得其反,造成种种不良后果。 A few days ago, a colleague called me and asked her son, who just turned 1 and a half years old, had a cold, cough and sputum more recently. Does a child like him use expectorants? Is it suitable for pediatric use? In autumn and winter, the respiratory disease in children gradually increases. The most common symptom is cough with sputum. Many parents think that cough can hurt the lungs and is used to giving them cough medicine when the child coughs and treat “cough ” as a therapeutic target. However, the improper use of cough medicine is not only ineffective, sometimes counterproductive, with all its negative consequences.