cough are children really different to adults咳嗽的孩子真的不同于成人.pdfVIP

Cough BioMed Central Review Open Access Cough: are children really different to adults? Anne B Chang* Address: Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician, NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Associate Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Childrens Hospital, Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia Email: Anne B Chang* - annechang@ * Corresponding author Published: 20 September 2005 Received: 06 July 2005 Accepted: 20 September 2005 Cough 2005, 1:7 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-1-7 This article is available from: /content/1/1/7 © 2005 Chang; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Worldwide paediatricians advocate that children should be managed differently from adults. In this article, similarities and differences between children and adults related to cough are presented. Physiologically, the cough pathway is closely linked to the control of breathing (the central respiratory pattern generator). As respiratory control and associated reflexes undergo a maturation process, it is expected that the cough would likewise undergo developmental stages as well. Clinically, the big three causes of chronic cough in