Unlike short-term bugs, asthma is a chronic, inflammatory condition. In children who have it, their airways swell and narrow ...

A persistent cough in a 6-year-old girl baffled doctors for eight months until a nurse's reaction to the mother's strong ...

Cough and congestion are common for many children this time of year, signaling any number of illnesses. For parents, it’s ...

This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sara Ritchie about how to care for your child’s cold and cough. Dr. Ritchie is an ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...

Habit cough virtually always has an organic origin. The child will have had a cough from an asthma exacerbation, pneumonia, or a common cold. He or she becomes stuck in a cycle of cough, irritation, ...

Vaccination is the best protection. Pertussis or ‘whooping cough’ is a highly contagious, and potentially very dangerous disease that is passed through communities via coughing and sneezing. The ...

Parenting Tips: Let us know from the experts what can be done to cure a child's cough quickly and what mistakes should be avoided during this time. Parenting Tips: It's very common for children to ...

I was recently asked by a concerned parent, “When is a kid’s cough something you should worry about?” In most instances, this should be discussed directly with one’s own pediatrician. There are, ...

Many children seem to have never-ending coughs and colds during the winter. But it can leave parents wondering whether it will right itself or if they need to see a doctor. Now Dr Dominic Greenyer has ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...

Cough is the most common chief complaint in the United States and Australia. 1 Although the differential diagnosis of cough in children is extensive, coughs can have very characteristic presentations ...