What to do if a four-year-old child keeps coughing

A four-year-old baby's body resistance is still very poor, and he may cough due to wind factors. Try not to rush to take medicine when your baby coughs, because the medicine will have a greater impact on the baby's body. A four-year-old child's cough can be treated with some small folk remedies, which are all common household ingredients. Don't worry about affecting the baby's body.

Wind-heat cough

1. Pear + rock sugar + Fritillaria cirrhosa: Wash the pear, cut it in half along the handle, remove the core, add 2-3 rock sugars and 5-6 Fritillaria cirrhosa. Crush the Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder, align the upper part of the pear, or insert it tightly with toothpicks, put it in a bowl, steam it for about 30 minutes, and give it to your child in two doses. This recipe has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and resolving phlegm. It is a very popular dietary recipe for treating wind-heat coughs. Some parents make it for their children as soon as they cough. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the more the child eats, the heavier the cough becomes. Therefore, parents must pay attention that this method cannot be used for all coughs. It must be a wind-heat cough. The child's tongue coating is red or yellow, the phlegm is thick and yellow, the child has severe internal heat, and the cough is accompanied by sore throat and chest pain. This recipe can be used for better results. There are also various anti-inflammatory drugs and most cough suppressants that have a good therapeutic effect on wind-heat coughs, so among the coughs caused by various reasons, wind-heat coughs are the easiest to treat. Children nowadays generally like to stay cool. When it’s hot, they use air conditioners. They eat cold fruits and drink cold beverages all year round. Therefore, the number of children suffering from wind-heat cough has decreased significantly. Parents should pay attention to their children's tongue coating when choosing a dietary therapy. If the cough is caused by wind-cold, the tongue coating will be white. Chuanbei is bitter and cold. If this prescription is used to treat a cold disease with a cold medicine, it will be like adding insult to injury and be counterproductive.

2. Boil radish water: Wash the white radish, cut it into 4-5 thin slices, put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, put it on the fire and bring it to a boil, then simmer for 5 minutes on low heat, turn off the heat, and wait until the water is no longer hot, then give it to your child to drink while warm. It is very effective for wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, dry cough and little sputum, especially for babies under 2 years old. Just boiled white radish water for children to drink, can help relieve gas, resolve phlegm, relieve cough, digest food, strengthen the stomach, clear away heat, and promote salivation. It can be drunk 2-3 times a day.

3. You can also give your child the following foods

① Pear: It is cold in nature and can clear away heat, phlegm and relieve cough. However, children can only eat one pear at a time because pears are very cold in nature. Eating too many pears will cause stomach discomfort in children.

② Watermelon: It is cold in nature. If children have wind-heat cough in summer, you can give them more watermelons. Watermelon can cure all heat symptoms.

③Loquat: It is cool in nature, can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for children with hot cough and yellow purulent phlegm.

④ Water chestnut: It is cold in nature. Parents can peel 2-3 water chestnuts, cut them into thin slices, put them in the pot, add a bowl of water, and cook them on the fire for 5 minutes. Giving children water with water chestnuts can help to resolve phlegm and clear away heat, and it is especially effective for those with febrile cough and spitting of purulent sputum.