Approach to patient with cough by American and Chinese respiratory specialist

Xiuxiu Liu; Deniz Kesebir; Mikhail Kazachkov

doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102733

Approach to patient with cough by American and Chinese respiratory specialist

Complement Ther Med. 2021 Aug:60:102733. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102733. Epub 2021 May 26.

Authors

Xiuxiu Liu¹, Deniz Kesebir², Mikhail Kazachkov³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: Mikhail.Kazachkov@nyulangone.org.

PMID: 34048915
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102733

Abstract

Cough is a common pediatric condition. Acute cough is often considered to be self-limiting and not requiring clinical management. However, pediatric patients and their parents often seek remedies for an acute cough. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) specialists have been treating pediatric cough for millennia. Here we present a case of pediatric cough and the approaches taken to it by a Western and Chinese respiratory specialist. We conclude that TCM may provide important and useful insights into the treatment of such pediatric respiratory disease.

Keywords: Cough; Pediatric respiratory disease; Traditional Chinese medicine; Western medicine.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child
China
Cough* / therapy
Drugs, Chinese Herbal*
Humans
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Specialization
United States

Substances

Drugs, Chinese Herbal