What can't children eat when they have a cough?

Children's physical health has always been the most concerned issue for parents, and any disturbance will make parents nervous. For example, children have low resistance and are prone to catching colds and other diseases. At this time, parents need to take correct measures and stay calm. Let’s take a look at what children should not eat when they have a cough.

1. Candy

During a cough, you must not eat any candy, not even a small piece. Candies are sweet and will cause dampness and phlegm, aggravating coughs. When children are coughing, mothers must strictly control their behavior and absolutely not allow them to eat sweets. Ordinary candies such as hard candies, soft candies, lollipops, etc. should not be eaten, and chocolate, marshmallows, etc. should also be eaten less or not.

2. Cakes and Desserts

Cakes and desserts are very tempting, but these tempting foods are high in oil and sugar. Most cakes and pastries are made with vegetable cream, which contains a large amount of trans fatty acids, and eating them regularly will cause a burden to the body. Eating it when you have a cough will cause dampness and phlegm. For children whose coughs were almost healed, their coughs will get worse and their phlegm will suddenly increase after eating sweet and greasy cakes. While the cough has not healed, no matter how tempting the cakes or desserts are, you must control yourself from giving them to your baby.

3. Fish, shrimp and seafood

As the saying goes, "Fish generates fire, and meat generates phlegm." Fish, shrimp and seafood are mostly high-protein foods, which are not easy to digest. When you have a cough due to yin deficiency or food accumulation, these foods will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. At the same time, their own cold and dampness cannot go down under the guidance of the stomach qi. These cold and dampness turn into heat, fumigating the lungs and aggravating the cough.

4. Fried foods

Some babies like to eat fried foods, such as French fries, fried chicken wings, fried pork chops, etc. Eating these fried foods at normal times will cause yin deficiency, and eating them during a cough will further aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency. Fried foods are hot in nature, and eating them during a cough will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, generate heat and phlegm, and make the cough more difficult to cure. Therefore, fried foods must not be eaten during a cough. Eating mainly porridge, steamed or boiled vegetarian food can better help the body recover.

5. Cheese

Cheese-based foods can also cause yin deficiency to transform into heat, produce dampness and phlegm, so when your baby is coughing, do not eat sandwiches, pizza, etc. containing cheese.