What should I do if my child has lymphadenitis and fever?

The symptoms of lymphadenitis are often swollen lymph nodes. Of course, there may be other clinical manifestations, so parents must handle such problems with caution. Especially if your child is weak and sickly, you should help your child with treatment as soon as possible to avoid causing other diseases. So, what should we do if children have lymphadenitis and fever? Parents are advised to adopt the following dietary therapy methods.

Recipe 1: Purslane, Chrysanthemum, Mung Bean Porridge

Soak mung beans for half a day, wash and chop purslane, and dry and grind chrysanthemum into powder. When the mung beans are half cooked, add purslane and glutinous rice and simmer until it becomes porridge. Add chrysanthemum powder and cook for a while. Take it twice a day. This method has the medicinal effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and removing dampness, and can be used to treat acute lymphangitis, in which one or several thread-like red lines appear on the wound of the lower limbs, which are hard and tender.

Recipe 2: Water Chestnut Porridge

Peel and slice the water chestnuts, put them into the pot together with the cleaned glutinous rice, add water and simmer for porridge. Take it twice a day. The effect is that it can clear away heat and promote salivation. Mainly used to treat acute lymphangitis. Note: Water chestnut extract has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus.

Recipe 3: Snow Soup

50-100 grams each of water chestnuts and jellyfish (soaked and salted), boil them into a soup and drink it in 2-3 times. This is the "Xue Geng Soup" by Wang Shixiong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty. It has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating accumulation and softening hard masses, and lowering blood pressure. It can be used to treat phlegm-heat cough, lymph tuberculosis, and primary hypertension.

Recipe 4: Steamed Chicken Liver with Corrugated Rice

6-10 grams of corrugated seeds are calcined on fire, ground into fine powder, mixed with 1-2 chicken livers, and steamed before eating. It has the effects of eliminating accumulation and phlegm, tonifying the liver and kidneys, and nourishing blood. It is suitable for treating lymphatic tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, infantile malnutrition and other diseases.

Recipe 5: Taro Flour Soup

Use 3 kg of raw taro, dry it and grind it into powder. Also use 300 g of old jellyfish (wash off the salt) and 300 g of water chestnuts. Add water and cook until the two ingredients are soft, remove the residue, add taro powder and make into pills as big as mung beans. Take with warm water, 6 g each time, three times a day. Or wash fresh taro, steam it in a pot, peel it, season it with soy sauce, and eat it as a dish every day. Treat scrofula, cervical lymphadenitis, postauricular lymphadenitis, etc.