What should I do if my child has asthma?

Children's asthma problem should be paid attention to by parents, because asthma attacks are very detrimental to the healthy growth of children. First of all, we should pay attention to understanding how to prevent asthma, try not to let children catch cold, use air conditioning less, and the diet should mainly consist of foods with neutral and warm properties, such as rice, corn, glutinous rice, oats, etc.

(1) Asthma is often caused by weakness, so you should avoid catching cold. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, children with asthma mainly suffer from deficiency syndrome. These children have weak constitutions and are more sensitive, and most of them have cold asthma type. Therefore, children are most likely to get sick when cold air arrives. Parents should add or remove clothes for their children in time according to weather changes, so as not to let their children catch cold. In summer, try to use air conditioning as little as possible and avoid electric fans blowing directly at children's bodies.

(2) In terms of diet, mainly choose foods that are neutral or warm in nature. For example, the cereal diet is mainly composed of rice, corn, glutinous rice, and oats, while millet, buckwheat, mung beans, coix seeds and other cool foods should be eaten less or not.

In the meat diet, you should often eat foods that are warm and neutral in nature, such as lamb, beef, pork, chicken, sea fish, shrimp, and eel, while foods that are cold and cool in nature, such as crabs, clams, snails, and duck meat, should be avoided as much as possible.

(3) Fruits with neutral or warm nature include apples, grapes, peaches, lychees, oranges, pomegranates, walnuts, ginkgo nuts, dates, chestnuts, pine nuts, etc. These fruits can be eaten frequently. However, you should try not to eat some cold fruits such as watermelon, persimmon, grapefruit, banana, kiwi, and sugarcane.

(4) Vegetables that should be eaten include yam, carrot, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, green vegetables, potato, onion, leek, pumpkin, mushroom, toon, edamame, green beans, long beans, peppers and other foods with warm nature. Foods that are cold in nature include bitter melon, arrowhead, water chestnut, kelp, seaweed, water spinach, eggplant, lotus root, wild rice stem, loofah, and winter melon. You should try to eat less of these foods. If the child particularly wants to eat these cold foods, he must add chili, pepper, ginger and other warm foods together.

In addition, you also need to be careful when drinking water. Children with asthma should drink boiled water but not bitter melon tea, kuding tea, green tea, chrysanthemum tea, mint tea, puffed lychnophora, cassia seed tea, etc.