What is the best way to treat lung heat in children?

If a child develops lung heat, parents must pay attention to it. First of all, they should do daily care, such as ensuring that the indoor air is circulating and the indoor temperature is maintained at around 18 to 20 degrees. They should also closely observe the child's condition at all times. When a child is sick, he or she will not want to eat. At this time, they should be encouraged to drink more water. It is important to supplement nutrition. So how to treat lung heat in children?

First, treatment methods

Key points of treatment: (1) In this syndrome, the pathogenic heat is intense and the righteous qi has not yet declined, so the treatment should focus on attacking the pathogenic heat. The evil heat is in the lungs, and should be treated by clearing away lung heat. The principle should be "treat heat with cooling", but the specific prescriptions and medicines should be based on the severity of the disease, and sweet and cold, pungent and cold, or even bitter and cold, such as mulberry bark, gypsum and scutellaria baicalensis.

(2) Children’s internal organs are delicate, their physical and mental energy is not yet fully developed, and bitter and cold medicines can suppress the growth of energy, so they are rarely used in pediatric clinical practice. But for the patient with pathogenic heat spreading out like an owl (chizhang, like an owl spreading its wings. Metaphor for arrogance and ferocity), ordinary heat-clearing products are bound to be ineffective, and bitter and cold medicines are the only solution. When choosing bitter and cold herbs, one can choose to use only Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptis chinensis, or add Rhubarb to it, "using purgation instead of clearing", depending on whether constipation occurs or not.

(3) This syndrome is often seen in exogenous febrile diseases. The disease spreads rapidly in children. Although some children have developed this syndrome and it is the main symptom, the evil of the exterior defense has not yet been eliminated. In such situations, the treatment can be slightly modified. For example, Gypsum Decoction can be used for internal use with modifications, and its original function as a diaphoretic and interior-clearing agent can be restored. The dosage of ephedra should be increased, but the fermented black beans should not be removed. Ma Xing Shi Gan Decoction can also be used, which has a pungent and cool effect on dispelling wind, clearing the lungs and relieving asthma.

Therefore, you can choose sunflower children's lung heat cough and asthma oral liquid with ephedra, bitter almond, gypsum, licorice, honeysuckle, scutellaria, forsythia, isatis root, houttuynia, anemarrhena, and ophiopogon as the main ingredients. It has the four major effects of clearing heat, relieving cough, relieving asthma, and removing phlegm. The formula of Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang is effective in clearing lung heat, relieving cough and asthma. It is combined with Ophiopogon japonicus and Anemarrhena asphodeloides to nourish the lung yin of children, do not harm the child's vitality, and enhance disease resistance. Gypsum and Anemarrhena asphodeloides can clear stomach fire and increase appetite. It is targeted at the pathological characteristics of children, and is precise and unique, providing comprehensive care.

Second, symptoms

High fever, frequent coughing, or even shortness of breath, and yellow and sticky sputum. Irritability, red face and lips, dry nasopharynx, thirst, dry or loose stools, yellow and short urine. The tongue is red with yellow coating, the pulse is rapid and strong, and the fingerprints are purple.

When the following situations occur, it indicates that heat has formed in the child's body and it is necessary to clear the lungs and release heat in time:

① Eye boogers. When children wake up in the morning, their eyelashes are stuck to their eye secretions, making it difficult for them to open their eyes.

②Has bad breath. It's bad breath, and you can smell it clearly if you get close to the child's face.

③Sore throat. Dry and sore throat, red and swollen tonsils.

④Red lips. It's bright red, like lipstick.

⑤The tip of the tongue is red. The tip of the tongue is obviously redder than the tongue body, and even has many bright red spots. Some children may also have ulcers on the tip or body of the tongue.

⑥ Geographic tongue. Many children's tongue coating peels off in patches and becomes irregular like a map (caused by extreme heat damaging the yin).

⑦ The stool is dry, hard and smelly. The stool is dry and hard to pass. Some children have red faces and tears in their eyes when they are holding their stool. Some children have stools once every two days or once every few days. Some children have stools that are dry and hard like sheep dung and are in the shape of balls. The stools of these children have a particularly strong odor.

Third, what should children eat for lung heat?

What should I do if my child has lung heat? To deal with lung heat in children, both medication and diet therapy are good choices. So, what medicine is good for children’s lung heat? What food is good for children with lung heat? Let’s learn more about it below!

If a child has lung heat, he or she can take some medicine for treatment. Clinically, Chinese patent medicines such as Qingrejiedu oral liquid are mainly used for treatment. These Chinese patent medicines can significantly promote the peristalsis of pharyngeal and bronchial cilia, enhance the expectoration effect, and at the same time, the liquid medicine can cover the inflamed pharyngeal mucosa, relieve inflammatory stimulation, and have a significant and lasting antitussive effect.

In addition, in your daily diet, you should eat more vegetables and fruits that have the effects of clearing heat, reducing phlegm and relieving cough, such as pears, monk fruit, loquat, figs, radish juice, winter melon, loofah, reed root, and amaranth.