What should I do if my baby coughs and has phlegm?

When their children have a cough, parents are particularly troubled. They have no idea what method to use to relieve their children's cough. Although there are many cough suppressants, these cough suppressants contain certain antibiotics. If children are given these antibiotics frequently, their children's health will become worse and worse, and they may even develop a certain degree of drug resistance, which will make their colds more difficult to treat.

Treatment method: Clear away heat, soothe the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Prescription: Qingjin Huatan Decoction. For patients with excessive lung heat, cough, wheezing, high fever and thirst, remove Platycodon grandiflorum and dried tangerine peel and add honeysuckle, Houttuynia cordata, gypsum, and Lemongrass seeds to clear heat and drain the lungs. Treatment method: clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

The main prescription is Qingjin Huatan Decoction with modifications. (Tongzhi Fang) Commonly used medicines include mulberry bark, scutellaria baicalensis, gardenia jasminoides, trichosanthes peel, thunbergia thunbergii, tangerine peel, peucedanum peucedanum, platycodon grandiflorum, and licorice.

For cough with a lot of phlegm, add Houttuynia cordata, Lepidium melongena, and Belamcanda chinensis to clear the lungs and eliminate phlegm; for blood in the phlegm and irritability, add Daihesan and Curcuma aromatica to soothe the liver and reduce fire; for fever and thirst, add Gypsum and Phragmites australis to clear away heat and promote salivation; for dry and hard stools, add Trichosanthes seed and Rhubarb.

Diet and health care

1. Steamed honey pears to treat cough

Cut a triangular opening on the pear like you would check the ripeness of a watermelon, hollow out the pear core, add an appropriate amount of honey, and then cover the pear with the triangular piece. Put it in a bowl with the opening facing upwards and steam it for a quarter of an hour. Take it out and eat it while it is hot.

2. Steamed prickly ash pear relieves cough and asthma

Take a raw pear, poke a few small holes on it, stuff a Sichuan peppercorn into each hole, and stew it in water. After it cools down, remove the Sichuan peppercorns and eat the pear and drink the juice to relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and stop asthma.

3. Pear juice stewed with mushrooms to treat cough

Pears can moisten the lungs, cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce heat. The interferon produced by the double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in mushrooms can eliminate viruses in the human body. Use the diet therapy of "pear juice stewed with mushrooms" to prevent and treat dry coughs in autumn and winter and eliminate infections. Generally, the effect will be seen after taking it for two or three days.

Therefore, you may wish to try Chinese medicine treatment when appropriate. However, some Chinese herbal medicines are difficult for children to accept. In that case, you can add some of their favorite foods to the Chinese medicine, and then give them the decoction. As long as they drink these decoctions regularly, they can relieve coughs, especially when coughing with phlegm, it can help expel phlegm and prevent it from accumulating in the body.