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COUGH IN CHILDREN

Abstract

Cough is frequent symptom in pediatric practice. Tussive reflex has age-specific and physiological peculiarities. The reasons of cough in children are very heterogeneous, and differ from that ones in adults. Main causes of cough in children are inflammation in upper and lower airways, bronchial asthma, and in early age - foreign body in bronchial tube, malformations of airways, gastroesophageal reflux. The approaches to treatment of cough must consider etiology and pathogenesis of its onset.
Key words: children, cough, airways inflammation, treatment.
(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. 2009;8(1):90-97)

About the Author

S.I. Petrova
St.-Petersburg Pediatric Medical Academy
Russian Federation


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