What is the reason for children to cough up yellow phlegm?

When suffering from a severe cold, patients usually cough up thick yellow sputum. The thick yellow sputum is mainly the corpses of viruses killed by white blood cells after invading. A lot of yellow sputum only appears when there is excessive internal heat. Although they are all colds, the colds that cause yellow sputum are mostly caused by viral invasion. This type of cold will last longer. On the one hand, you need to take western medicine, and on the other hand, you also need to eat some foods that reduce heat.

1. What is the reason for children to cough with yellow sputum?

Most of the coughs in young children are caused by viral infections and generally do not require special treatment. Just drink more water, reduce the concentration of sputum, and receive symptomatic treatment. If your baby coughs and has yellow phlegm, it means that the child has a lot of heat in the body. You must choose medicines that clear heat, detoxify, and cool the body, such as the commonly used honeysuckle, scutellaria, forsythia, isatis root, houttuynia cordata, etc. These Chinese medicines can not only treat the baby's excessive and yellow phlegm, but also inhibit bacteria and viruses and fight influenza. The effect will be better if it is used together with drugs for expectoration and dilution.

The properties of sputum are different. Some sputum is clearer, while some is more viscous. Clear sputum tends to indicate symptoms of colds caused by wind and cold, while yellow sputum tends to indicate symptoms of phlegm and fire in the lungs. The medications for the two are different. Coughing with yellow phlegm may be a bacterial infection. At this time, you need to go to the hospital for a blood test. If it is a viral infection, the total white blood cell count and the neutrophil ratio are generally normal, or both are reduced. If it is a bacterial infection, both will increase. If it is a bacterial infection, antibiotics must be taken.

2. Folk remedies for baby's cough and phlegm

1. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables

You can give your children more fresh vegetables and fruits to supplement enough inorganic salts and vitamins. You can also consume more fruits and vegetables containing carotene, such as tomatoes, carrots and other foods rich in vitamin A.

2. Drink enough water

Give babies who have a cough enough boiled water to drink, because sufficient water not only meets the baby's physiological metabolic needs, but also helps dilute sputum, helping the baby to cough up sputum.

3. Add medicinal ingredients

In your daily diet, you can appropriately choose some ingredients that can be used as both medicine and food, such as lily, white fungus, lotus root, pear, almond, lotus seed, ginkgo, water chestnut, etc.

3. What should children eat to cure cough quickly?

1. Garlic

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, garlic is spicy, sweet and warm in nature. It can warm the middle and strengthen the stomach, help digestion and regulate qi, detoxify and kill insects. It also has the effects of protecting cardiovascular system, protecting liver function, preventing colds, and having strong bactericidal effects. Therefore, if you drink some garlic water in moderation, it will be very effective in curing children's cough.

2. Pear

When I was a child, whenever I had a cold or cough, my family would boil a pear and add sugar to it. In fact, pears do have the effect of treating coughs. Because pears themselves contain a lot of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotene and various vitamins. In addition, pear peel, pear blossoms, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, with good effects of clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It has good effects on dryness-heat cough, cold cough, measles cough and tracheitis cough.

3. Loquat

In Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, relieving gas, benefiting the lungs, and stopping vomiting, thirst and phlegm." It can be seen that loquat has a very good effect in relieving and treating children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the skin and eat it directly. But be sure to clean the leather because it is very dirty.

4. Radish

Radish has the effects of clearing heat and promoting body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting urination, and detoxifying. The simplest way is to boil a bowl of radish water for the child, which is very effective for cough. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish soup, candied radish, radish sake decoction, etc. as medicinal food to better treat children's cough.