How to treat children's cough with food therapy

The child coughs, and mothers are very worried about the child's symptoms. If the child has a cold and fever, it is better to take some antipyretics, or give the child physical therapy to improve the symptoms for a few days. But if the baby is coughing, we all know that cough is a chronic disease. If the child's cough is not controlled in time, it is easy to make the child's cough worse, and it will also cause the child to cough with phlegm. So how to treat the child's cough with diet therapy?

Baby cough diet therapy 1: radish and tangerine peel soup

Slice 1 white radish, add 5 white peppercorns, 10g ginger, 5g tangerine peel, boil the soup, then add 50g rock sugar. It is used in the early stages of the disease when coughing occurs frequently, the throat is itchy, the cough is heavy and dull, and the sputum is clear and thin.

Baby cough diet therapy 2: monk fruit tea

9g of Luo Han Guo from Guangxi, decocted in water. It is used for cough with yellow and sticky phlegm that is difficult to cough up.

Baby cough diet therapy three: loofah porridge

500 grams of loofah, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 15 grams of dried shrimp, and appropriate amounts of ginger and onion. Wash the loofah with skin, cut into pieces and set aside. Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, and add the loofah, dried shrimp and other ingredients when it is almost cooked. Serve for breakfast and dinner.

Luffa tastes sweet and cool in nature. It can clear away heat and phlegm, cool blood and detoxify. It contains saponins, luffa bitter element citrulline, xylan, fat, protein, vitamin E and other ingredients. Used together with polished rice, dried shrimp, etc., it has the effects of clearing heat and harmonizing the stomach, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Because loofah is cold and slippery, it should be used with caution by weak infants or those with spleen and stomach yang deficiency, or those who often suffer from loose stools and diarrhea. If you have a sore throat or are using the medicine to treat carbuncles, you should remove the dried shrimps.

You can try using this method to relieve your child's cough so that the child's cough can be better controlled. When relieving your child's cough, you must give the child more water, but remember not to give the child cold water. Drinking cold water may even make the child's cough worse, so the water you give the child must be warm water. During the child's cough, you must also take good care of the child's food. During this period, you can give the child more porridge to help the child relieve the cough.