What should I do if my child has internal heat and cough?

In life, mothers find that their children always cough for no reason, but they do not find that the babies have symptoms of a cold. In fact, this situation is often related to other diseases. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, internal heat cough also often occurs, so you must pay attention to prevention to avoid similar diseases. So, what should we do if children have internal heat and cough?

Diet and lifestyle adjustments (prevention and health preservation): Diet: Avoid eating spicy and irritating foods, such as peppers, fish, shrimp, beef, mutton, seafood, onions, garlic, ginger, leeks, wine, milk and all fried foods; eat more cool vegetables and fruits, such as cabbage, spinach, shepherd's purse, cabbage, carrots, winter melon, loofah, pumpkin, tomatoes, bananas, apples, pears, lotus seeds, pineapples, sugarcane, watermelon, etc. Environment: Avoid staying in a high temperature environment for a long time, and have less contact with computers and TV. Temperament: Keep a good mood, and don't be angry, impatient, or annoyed. Fatigue: Do not overwork. Movement is yang. People who are prone to getting angry should sit quietly.

What to do if your child has internal heat and cough? Remember the seven dietary taboos

Avoid cold food

It is not advisable to consume cold drinks or frozen food when you have a cough. If the food is too cold, it will cause blockage of lung qi, aggravate the condition and make it difficult to cure.

Second taboo: fatty and sweet food

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung heat, and this is also true for children. In children's daily diet, eating fatty, sweet and greasy foods will produce internal heat, aggravate coughs, and cause thick phlegm that is difficult to cough up. For children with asthma, eating such foods will block the respiratory tract and aggravate asthma. In addition, try not to eat fried foods, as fried foods will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and breed phlegm.

Three taboos: fish, shrimp and crab

Most people know that you should not eat irritating foods when you have a cough. Fish and shrimp have the greatest impact on wind-heat coughs. These foods are very irritating to the respiratory tract, so try to avoid them.

Four taboos: sweet and sour food

Sweet and sour foods can restrain phlegm, making it difficult to cough up and aggravating the condition. When the cough is severe, do not eat bananas, apples, grapes, etc. Sweets will aggravate the condition. It is also inappropriate to use pears stewed with rock sugar to treat coughs in daily life.

Five taboos: oranges

Many people believe that oranges can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, so they let patients eat more oranges. In fact, this is wrong. It is the orange peel that relieves cough and reduces phlegm, while the orange flesh is not good. And it is impossible for children to eat only the orange peel and not the orange, right?

Six taboos: peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate

This type of food has a high fat content, which will produce phlegm and aggravate cough symptoms after consumption.

Seven taboos: supplements

For unknown reasons, people believe that children with weak constitutions should eat more supplements, but if the child's cough has not healed, they should stop taking the supplements to avoid aggravating the cough or delaying the course of the cough.