What are the dangers of using cough plaster on children?

When a child has symptoms of coughing, parents often wonder whether he has caught a cold or has a certain disease. When faced with such a situation, many parents will choose ointments to treat their children in order to avoid the pain and side effects of taking medicines and injections. However, many experts believe that this approach is not scientific. So, what are the dangers of using cough plasters on children?

Are children's cough plasters useful?

Coughing in children is a relatively common symptom. Many causes of acute and chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract can cause coughing. According to the course of the disease, it can be divided into acute cough, subacute cough and chronic cough.

Plasters are useful for children's coughs. Paste therapy, also known as external application, is a method of grinding the medicine into fine powder and mixing it with various liquids (such as wine, vinegar, tea, warm water, etc.) into a paste preparation or refining it to extract and concentrate it, and then applying it to certain acupuncture points or affected areas to treat diseases. It is one of the commonly used external treatment methods in Chinese medicine.

Reasons for applying plaster for children's cough: Children have low body resistance and are susceptible to external pathogens, and "lungs are a delicate organ". Evil spirits attack the lungs, causing the lungs to fail to descend and causing coughing and asthma. Most children refuse to take medicines, or spit them out after taking them due to coughing. Therefore, in addition to oral medications, plaster therapy is also an effective treatment method with few side effects for children's cough. It can also be called: "Children's Green Therapy."

The mechanism of pediatric cough plaster: According to the characteristics of children's thin and tender skin, sparse pores, and easy absorption of external medicines, we select pungent and dispersing medicines that enter the lung meridian and apply them to the Feishu, Tanzhong, Tiantu, Dazhui and other acupoints. In addition to allowing the medicine to directly reach the site of the disease and take effect, it can also allow the medicine to enter the inside through the skin and pores, and be transmitted to the lungs through the meridians, so as to regulate the lung's diffusion and descent, eliminate evil spirits, and cure cough.

What are the dietary taboos for cough?

If a cough occurs in life, it is recommended to actively treat it. In addition, patients also need to pay more attention to their diet. Generally speaking, there are the following dietary taboos for coughs:

1. Avoid spicy food. Spicy foods such as peppers, hot sauce, hot oil, leeks, onions, etc. can help produce phlegm, aggravate local inflammation in the body, and lead to asthma attacks.

2. Avoid greasy food. Greasy foods such as lard, butter, whole milk, fatty meat, grilled chicken, grilled bulbul, oil dumplings, roasted suckling pig, etc. are greasy in nature and easily produce phlegm and dampness. When there is external evil, the internal and external evils will fight against each other, making the evil qi linger and difficult to eliminate. When there is no external evil, endogenous phlegm and dampness will block the airways and cause coughing and wheezing. Therefore, patients with emphysema should avoid eating greasy foods.

3. Avoid fishy, ​​smelly and irritating foods. Foods with fishy and smelly smell, such as yellow croaker, hairtail, black fish, mandarin fish, rubber fish, shrimp, crab, etc., can encourage exogenous evil and produce phlegm and dampness, which can block the chest yang of patients with emphysema, cause stagnation of phlegm, and lead to symptoms such as coughing, sputum, and asthma. Therefore, patients with this disease should avoid eating them.