What to eat for cough caused by cold in children

Everyone's physique is different, and children's physiques are relatively weak. Especially when the weather changes, it is easy for children to catch a cold and have a fever. Parents are very anxious when they see their children become listless due to illness. In fact, some foods in life can also relieve children's colds. So what should children eat for coughs caused by colds?

Children have weak resistance. If they have a weak spleen and stomach, improper diet, and eat too much indigestible food, the essence of water and grain cannot be transformed and becomes phlegm. This will be stored in the lungs and cause coughing. Coughing can cause lung damage, so it must be taken seriously. What food is good for children to eat when they have a cold and cough?

Wind-cold invading the lungs causes cough: symptoms include acute onset, cough, thin white sputum, clear runny nose, nasal congestion and sneezing, headache, body aches, fear of cold, and slight fever.

It is advisable to eat spicy and warm foods, such as ginger, white onions, and fermented black beans. Avoid eating raw, cold and cool foods, including 1. various iced drinks; 2. cold fruits and vegetables like watermelon, pears, bananas, kiwis, etc.; 3. sour and astringent foods like vinegar, sauerkraut, kimchi, ginkgo nuts, lotus root nodes and unripe persimmons and crabapples, etc.

Wind-heat invading the lungs and causing cough: symptoms include runny yellow nasal discharge, coughing up yellow thick and sticky sputum, accompanied by fever, sweating, dry, sore and itchy throat, and thirst for water.

It is advisable to eat spicy, cool and light food to dispel wind evil, clear away heat, detoxify and relieve cough, such as chrysanthemum, tea, sweet pear, sweet orange, etc. Avoid foods including: 1. Sour and astringent foods. Such as vinegar, sauerkraut, lemon, hawthorn, persimmon, and other fruits; 2. Spicy and hot foods such as onion, ginger, pepper, garlic, leek, and other vegetables and longan meat, jujube, apricot and other fruits; 3. Fatty, sweet and greasy foods.

The above is an introduction about what to eat for cough caused by cold in children. I hope parents and friends can learn more about it. At the same time, they should also pay attention to preventing children's diseases in life, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and help children improve their own immunity, so that diseases will slowly stay away from children.