What are the treatments for children's itchy throat and cough?

Children always feel that their throats are very itchy, and they keep coughing, and sometimes they have a runny nose. This may be due to throat inflammation, or it may be because the child has a cold. Long-term coughing in children is very harmful and may cause other complications. Therefore, timely symptomatic treatment is needed. In addition to going to the pharmacy to buy medicine, the following dietary therapies are recommended.

First, radish tea

Ingredients: 100 grams of white radish, 5 grams of tea.

Preparation: Brew tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes and extract the juice; wash and slice the white radish, put it in a pot and cook it until it is soft, then pour in the tea juice. Take 2 doses daily, warm and take at any time.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and resolves phlegm, regulates qi and stimulates appetite. It is suitable for cough with excessive sputum, poor appetite, etc. It is more suitable for people with lung heat, cough and excessive sputum.

Second, apricot and pear tea

Ingredients: 10 grams of bitter almonds, 1 large duck pear, and a little rock sugar.

Preparation: Peel the almonds and crush them; remove the core of the pear and cut into pieces; add appropriate amount of water and cook until cooked, then add rock sugar to dissolve. Drink as tea at any time.

Efficacy: This tea can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Suitable for acute tracheitis and cough of dryness and heat type.

Third, Tremella and Rock Sugar Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of Tremella, 20 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: First remove the stems of the white fungus, pick out impurities, and soak it in cold boiled water until it swells and softens. Put the white fungus and rock sugar in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for 90 minutes until the white fungus is soft and the soup is thick. Eat at midnight, once a night.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and moistens dryness, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. It is suitable for symptoms such as dry cough with little sputum, difficulty in coughing up, and blood in sputum caused by insufficient lung yin.

Fourth, mulberry and chrysanthemum drink

Ingredients: 5 grams each of mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum, 3 grams of mint, and appropriate amount of honey.

Method: Put mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum in a pot and fry for about half an hour, then add 3 grams of mint and fry for a while, then add honey.

Efficacy: This tea is very effective for symptoms such as cough, fever, cold and headache.

Note: Children under 1 year old should not consume honey.

5. Tangerine peel tea

Ingredients: tangerine peel (fresh tangerine peel is best), appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: Wash the tangerine peel with water, tear it into small pieces, put it in a cup, brew it with boiling water, and simmer it; pour out the tangerine peel juice, add sugar to the juice and stir well, and drink it instead of tea.

Efficacy: This tea can relieve gas, relieve cough, resolve phlegm, strengthen the stomach, relieve heat and remove fever. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, cough and asthma. It can also make the skin healthy.

6. Onion Honey

Onions and honey are both very effective natural expectorants. Cut the onion into thin slices, put it in a deep bottle, then fill it with honey. Leave it for 10-12 hours and then take it immediately. Take one spoonful each time, 4-5 times a day.

Note: Children under 1 year old should not consume honey.