What to eat for a child with a runny nose

As the temperature difference between day and night increases, many children are prone to catching colds due to their decreased resistance, which makes parents and friends feel embarrassed. Children are prone to fever, cough and runny nose after catching a cold, and they often have no appetite during this period, which makes mothers worry when cooking for their children. So what should children eat if they have a runny nose? When children have no appetite, what foods can help them supplement vitamins and daily dietary fiber? Let’s take a look together.

In fact, at this stage, mothers can cook some porridge for their babies that can clear away heat, detoxify, and dispel wind and cold, such as scallion porridge, honeysuckle porridge, etc. These porridges can not only relieve the baby's cough and runny nose, but are also easy to digest.

1. Scallion porridge. Scallion whites have the effect of dispersing wind and cold, and are suitable for the early stages of a cold, which has symptoms such as clear runny nose, fear of cold, throat discomfort, and slight fever. If you add 3 slices of ginger to this method, it will enhance the effect of dispersing wind and cold and the effect will be better. After the baby drinks it, the runny nose can be stopped immediately in mild cases, and the speed of runny nose can be greatly reduced in severe cases, and the yellow mucus can be reduced to clear white. Note: Use less glutinous rice and more water. Because it usually takes more than 40 minutes to be most effective. It should be brewed and drunk immediately each time, otherwise it will lose its effect if stored for too long. In addition, scallion porridge should be eaten while hot, which helps to induce sweating and dispel cold. However, this method should not be used when the child has yellow purulent nasal discharge, fever, or red and swollen throat.

2. Honeysuckle porridge. Honeysuckle is cold in nature, can clear away heat and detoxify, evacuate wind-heat, and also has an inhibitory effect on influenza virus; light black beans are cool in nature and are often used together with honeysuckle to treat wind-heat colds. It is very suitable for patients with wind-heat cold and influenza whose main symptoms are fever, headache and sore throat.

3. Brown sugar ginger soup. Method: Slice 10 grams of ginger, add water and boil, then add 15 grams of brown sugar and drink while hot. Efficacy: Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and can dispel wind and cold. If you accidentally catch a cold in winter, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup and sweating slightly can indeed help dispel the cold. But it is only suitable for patients with mild colds.

4. White radish soup. White radish has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases such as cough and sputum. White radish soup has no direct therapeutic effect on colds, but it can relieve various discomforts caused by colds, such as nasal congestion and cough.

After reading the above introduction about what to eat for children with runny nose, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of the symptoms of children's colds. Colds, fevers and runny noses are most common in children when the seasons change or they catch a cold. Children often cannot eat at these critical moments. This requires mothers to learn the methods mentioned above and make different dishes for their children in different ways, so that their children can supplement the necessary nutrition, strengthen their physical fitness and prevent colds.