What should children eat if their voice is hoarse?

It is not uncommon for children to have hoarse voices. Although this is not a serious condition, it must be treated as soon as possible, otherwise our throats may become red, swollen and inflamed, and our children may be unable to speak. Dietary therapy can help us achieve very good treatment results. Let’s find out what children with hoarse voices should eat.

Foods that are good for the throat include apples, pears, oranges, monk fruit, bananas, water chestnuts, green radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, pakchoy, Chinese cabbage, rapeseed, celery, spinach, seaweed, honey, tofu, soy milk, eggs, black beans, etc. You can often eat cucumber and sesame paste mixed with rice noodles, cabbage heart mixed with tofu, spinach mixed with vermicelli, rock sugar and white fungus soup, egg and seaweed soup, rice and mung bean porridge, millet and vegetable porridge, etc. These light foods are good for moisturizing the throat, clearing the throat and opening the voice, and contain a variety of vitamins and inorganic salts, which are beneficial for maintaining health.

Eat less too cold or too hot food: overheated food can easily cause congestion of the throat mucosa, affecting pronunciation and resonance. Too cold food can cause abnormal contraction of the throat muscles and vasospasm, obstructing venous blood return, causing mucosal damage, and affecting the normal function of the laryngeal muscles and vocal cords. The following foods have adverse effects on the voice, such as alcohol, onions, garlic, cigarettes, peanuts, sunflower seeds, stinky tofu, fatty meat and overly salty foods, chili peppers, fermented tofu, lard, sweets, toon leaves, leeks, garlic sprouts, lamb, shrimps, vinegar, mustard, etc. The above-mentioned foods can cause dry throat, thirst, phlegm, and hoarseness. When singing, the throat may feel numb, tight, blocked, stuffy, and the voice may become cracked or shifted, or even hoarse or loss of voice. In short, spicy, hot, greasy and irritating foods should not be eaten, so as not to cause congestion in the throat and vocal cords and affect the voice.

What should children eat if they have hoarse voices? There are many kinds of food. If children have hoarse voices, they can drink more red dates and wolfberry porridge. Red dates and wolfberry porridge can help us to achieve a good effect of relieving hoarseness. At the same time, it can also effectively help us replenish the nutrients lacking in the body to achieve the effect of regulating the qi and blood of the whole body.