How to treat children’s sore throat?

It is normal for children to have sore throats. Many children like to eat fried foods, and if they eat too much, this situation will occur. Generally, children's sore throats can be treated through diet therapy. For example, there are some cool fruits such as dragon fruit, mangosteen, loquat, etc., and some diet therapy recipes can be used.

1. Diet to reduce internal heat

Cool fruits such as dragon fruit, pear, apple, carambola, mangosteen, grapefruit, strawberry, loquat, etc. Cold fruits such as tomatoes, watermelons, bananas, kiwis, melons, grapefruits, oranges, persimmons, coconut water, and mulberries can all clear liver fire.

What are the vegetables that can reduce internal heat? Bitter melon is bitter, cold and can clear away heat. Lily has the effect of clearing heat, moistening the lungs and nourishing the liver. It is effective for residual heat after fever, sore throat, irritability and thirst. Celery can remove liver fire and relieve heat in the lungs and stomach. People with excessive liver fire can benefit from eating it regularly. Lotus root is mild and cold in nature, and is best eaten raw or mashed into juice. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, nourishing the liver and moistening the lungs. Its effect is better if mixed with pear juice. Water chestnut is cold in nature and is suitable for people with symptoms such as heat in the heart meridian, irritability, thirst, dry stool and yellow urine. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Lettuce is rich in water, and can clear away heat, relieve gas, and reduce phlegm. It is suitable for people with heat in the liver and lungs.

Water can moisten the throat, so people with sore throats should drink more water. It is also best to drink warm water. Cold water is likely to irritate the throat and make laryngitis worse. When your throat is swollen and sore, eating spicy food will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire. Greasy food is also not conducive to the recovery of laryngitis and should be avoided.

2. Diet therapy

Take a fresh egg, crack the egg liquid into a bowl, stir vigorously, pour boiling water into the egg liquid, make the egg liquid into frangipani, then add sugar and stir well, then drizzle with sesame oil and it's done. Drinking egg drop soup can relieve sore throat.

Buy some Chinese herbs such as Sterculia lychnophora, Chrysanthemum, and Honeysuckle, brew them with hot water, and drink them when you want to drink water. It can relieve sore throat and remove inflammation from the inside.

Buy some Jinzaozi throat lozenges, Xiguashuang and other lozenges and dissolve them in your mouth, or drink syrup, which is also very effective.

If your throat is swollen and sore, gargling with vinegar and the same amount of water can relieve the pain.

Fry the salt, grind it into powder, blow it into the throat and spit out the saliva. This can reduce inflammation and relieve pain.