What should a 5-year-old child eat when he has a cough?

When a 5-year-old child is sick, he or she can clearly tell that he or she is feeling unwell, and physical abnormalities can be diagnosed. Of course, this is limited to simple illnesses such as abdominal pain, headache, cold, cough, etc. The characteristics of these diseases are simple, and children can analyze the results. However, careful identification of the disease will reveal its severity. For example, if a cough has different symptoms and types, the treatment and dietary control will also be different. So what should a 5-year-old child eat when he coughs?

1. Yam and Barley Porridge

Ingredients: four to five slices of yam, a handful of coix seeds, and two handfuls of rice. This yam is not the yam sold in the vegetable market but the one processed in the pharmacy. It is called yam, and its sexual effect will be much better.

Material Processing:

Soak the yam and coix seeds in water overnight. Wash and dice the yam the next day. Put all the ingredients into a small pressure cooker with the ratio of ingredients to water being 1:2. Cook over high heat until steam is seen, then turn to low heat and continue to cook for 15 minutes.

You can also make lily and barley porridge, which can clear away heat and moisten dryness.

2. Lily Oatmeal

Ingredients: A handful of lily bulbs, a handful of oats, two handfuls of rice

Material Processing:

Lilies are also soaked overnight to make them puffy and soft, which can also soak away the sulfur added during the lily processing. Also put the ingredients into the pressure cooker in a ratio of 1:2 and cook using the same method as above.

Lily tastes bitter and astringent. My baby doesn't like to eat lily, so I just don't let him eat it. He will definitely vomit if he eats it. Anyway, the medicinal properties have been dissolved into the porridge, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't eat it.

Three: Lily and pear stewed with Sichuan Fritillaria

Ingredients: half a pear, a handful of lily bulbs, a handful of Sichuan Fritillaria

Material Processing:

There is no need to peel or dice the pear. Soak the lily overnight, then wash it, add the Fritillaria cirrhosa and pour it into a purple clay pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, simmer over high heat until it boils and starts to steam, then turn to low heat and continue simmering for 20 minutes. When decocting the medicine, pay attention to the amount of water to avoid it becoming a dry decoction.

This medicine is a little sweet and a little bitter. I always put a little bit in the bottle for my baby to drink. Sometimes he doesn't appreciate it, so I can only feed him with a bowl. I also have a little trick when feeding the medicine, which is to use a different bowl every day. The baby will think that the bowl is fresh and it is also fresh food, so he will drink it obediently!

Lily: It is sweet and slightly cold in nature, and enters the lung and heart meridians. It can moisten the lungs, relieve coughs, clear the heart and calm the mind. It is mainly used to treat lung heat cough, fatigue cough with blood, restlessness, palpitations, insomnia and nightmares. Testing has shown that lily bulbs contain colchicine and other biological alkaloids, as well as starch, protein, fat and other substances.

Job's tears: It has the effects of diuresis and swelling reduction, spleen and dampness removal, muscle relaxation and numbness removal, heat clearing and pus discharge.

Yam: nourishes the spleen and stomach, promotes fluid production and benefits the lungs, nourishes the kidneys and astringes semen. It is used for spleen deficiency, poor appetite, long-term diarrhea, lung deficiency, asthma and cough, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, frequent urination, deficiency heat and thirst, etc.

Fritillaria cirrhosa: It has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is used for symptoms such as lung heat and dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm, yin deficiency and fatigue cough, and coughing up blood in sputum.

What should a 5-year-old child eat when he has a cough? The children can eat the dietary remedies explained in the article, which are very important for lung conditioning. They can feel a lot of discomfort when coughing. In addition to diet control, conventional drug treatment is also important for patients. However, frequent use of the same medicine will also cause drug resistance, and the treatment effect is not good. Patients should frequently change the medicines they take. If the treatment is indeed ineffective, they should re-examine and formulate a treatment plan.