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Please suggest a treatment for allergic cough in a 5-year-old kid.
Query: Hello doctor, My boy is 5 years and 8 months old. He is having allergic sneezing, on and off cold from the past eight months (my wife has a regular allergic sneezing regularly). He is good, but since three days he is having occasional cough and sneezing occasionally (especially in the morning). I h... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. It looks like allergic rhinitis. You should give an anti-allergic syrup. I hope that there is no fever. Read Full »
My son has a cold, cough, and vomiting. Please help.
Query: Hello doctor, My 3-year-old son is suffering from cold and has regular cough. His temperature is normal and he did not have fever. But at times, he is throwing up whatever he eat or drink while coughing. Please suggest any medication and test if required. Thank you. Read Full »
Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand your concern. 1. Since when is this happening? Is there any specific time of cough, either morning or evening? Is the child feeding well? 2. It may be an infection or may be allergic cough. 3. I advise you go for chest X-ray and complete blood count if it ... Read Full »
Can Romilast be used for recurrent cough in kids?
Query: Hi doctor, This is about my son who is 3.5 years old. He started having an allergic cough before seven months. The frequency was once in a month. The doctor said he is allergic to dust and humid weather and prescribed Romilast. He was fine. But, from the 1st of last month, he is having the allergic ... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand your concern for your child. 1. Most probably this is allergic cough only, which is most common in kids these days. It is really great that you at least know that dust is the culprit. Many parents cannot even trace out the allergy causing thing in their... Read Full »
Kindly suggest tests to be done for a cough, apart from a chest x-ray.
Query: Hi doctor, I have attached an X-ray report of my one-year-old baby girl. The report says ill-defined haziness is seen in the right perihilar and para-cardiac regions - pneumonitis. What does this mean? She has cough for the last five days. My mom is suffering from active tuberculosis. So, an X-ray w... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I can understand your concern. See as you said, your mother is suffering from active TB (tuberculosis), TB in the child should also be ruled out first. It may be just pneumonia, but TB should be ruled out with some more investigations mentioned below. 1.Mantoux tes... Read Full »