Health Tip: When a Cold Won't Go Away

(HealthDay News) -- Coughs and sniffles are common among little ones. But if symptoms persist, especially at the same time each year, the child may actually have an allergy.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says warning signs of child allergies include:

  • Persistent cold-like symptoms that last longer than one to two weeks, or tend to strike at the same time each year.
  • Frequent red, itchy, and often scaly rashes in the creases of the elbows or knees can also signal an allergy.
  • Gagging, wheezing, vomiting, abdominal pain, coughing, hives or swelling that tend to occur after eating a particular food can signal a food allergy.
  • Chronic coughing, wheezing or tightness in the chest could actually signal asthma.

    • Date Published: 11/01/2011

    Related Articles

    Search Articles

    Antibiotics Probably Won't Ease Your Cough, Even If Infection is Bacterial: Study

    Can Zinc Really Shorten a Cold?

    Is It a Cold, Flu or COVID? An Expert Helps You Sort It Out

    How To Fight Common Wintertime Respiratory Viruses

    How Would an FDA Ban on Popular Cold Meds Affect Americans?

    Antibiotics Probably Won't Ease Your Cough, Even If Infection is Bacterial: Study

    They Spent Hours In A Room Full Of Flu Patients And Walked Out Healthy — Here's How

    Could OTC Nasal Sprays Ease Colds & Flu and Cut Antibiotic Use?

    CDC Urges Faster Testing for Bird Flu Amid Growing Outbreak

    Second Flu Vaccine Meeting Canceled -- What Happens Next?

    Tamiflu Safe For Children, Study Concludes