What should children pay attention to during heat, cold and runny nose

Many children will have clear runny nose due to heat colds, and their body resistance is poor. At the same time, the heat colds will also cause symptoms such as coughing, thick sputum and sore throat. In addition, the mouth will be drier when the body is in the fever stage, so it is necessary to replenish water in time. In normal times, ensure that there is air convection in the patient's room and ventilate it in time. Try not to use air conditioning or fans during these days, which will aggravate the condition.

Keep indoor and outdoor air circulating

1 The temperature is relatively high in summer and autumn, and children spend a long time in air-conditioned rooms. If a child has a fever, a cold and is coughing, parents must pay attention to adjusting the temperature and humidity indoors and outdoors. The room temperature is best at 20°C, and the humidity should be maintained at around 65%. You can hang a hygrometer in the room for easy observation. If a child has a severe cough and phlegm, you can wet a towel with hot water and let the child inhale the steam, or turn on the hot water tap to allow warm and humid steam to enter the airway, which can help relieve dry and sore throat and cough. Drink more hot drinks

2 Warm drinks can make thick phlegm thinner and easier to cough out. You can let your child drink more warm water, warm milk, rice soup and other foods, or you can feed your child warm fresh fruit juice. Be careful to choose fruit juices with less irritation, such as apple juice, pear juice, etc. Remember not to feed cold fruit juices such as watermelon juice and orange juice; because cold foods are irritating to the throat and stomach, thereby aggravating the cough. Therefore, children with fever, colds and coughs should avoid cold foods and drink more hot drinks. Massage

3 Children suffering from fever, cold and cough usually have symptoms such as coughing up thick yellow sputum, fever and headache, which can be effectively relieved and treated by massage techniques.

The technique is as follows: Clear the lung meridian: Use the spiral surface of the thumb to apply force, and push from between the child's ring finger to the knuckle 100 times. Qing Tianhe Water: Use the spiral surface of the thumb or middle finger to apply force along the center of the child's forearm, pushing from the wrist transverse line to the elbow transverse line 300 times. Retreat the Six Internal Organs: Use the thumb or middle finger to apply force on the spiral surface, and push along the ulnar side of the child's forearm from the elbow transverse line to the wrist transverse line 300 times. Massage 1-2 times a day, 15 minutes each time.

1. Bitter Melon

Bitter melon is bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, spleen, and lung meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving fatigue and clearing the mind, invigorating Qi and relieving fatigue, and benefiting the kidneys and promoting urination.

2. Radish

The carotene contained in radish has a unique effect in preventing and treating colds. Moreover, radish has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and is most suitable for patients with cough and phlegm caused by wind-heat cold.

3. Lotus root

Lotus root is cold in nature when used raw, and has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and can be used to treat febrile diseases; lotus root is sweet and liquid, and is especially beneficial for those with fever, thirst, epistaxis, hemoptysis, and bleeding.

4. Winter melon

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, enters the lungs, large intestine, and bladder meridians, has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, reducing heat and relieving fire, and is a good food for patients with wind-heat colds. When making winter melon soup, it is best to wash the winter melon peel and put it into the pot with the skin and seeds to cook the soup, which will have a better diuretic effect.

5. Lotus Leaf

It is suitable for people suffering from wind-heat cold in summer, as it has the effect of clearing away heat. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "Lotus leaves can clear away wind-heat in the head and eyes." "New Materia Medica" also says: "It can cool down and relieve summer heat, quench thirst, promote salivation, and relieve heat." Therefore, during the hot summer season, boiling lotus leaves in water and drinking it frequently instead of tea is most suitable for preventing and treating summer heat colds.