What foods are good for children with night sweats

Night sweats in children are actually quite common. Parents don’t need to worry too much. They can be treated through diet therapy. If they stick to the diet therapy, the effect is very good. Common dietary recipes for treating night sweats include black bean, longan meat and jujube soup, floating wheat and jujube porridge, ginseng and lotus drink, etc. These dietary treatments are all very effective.

1 Black bean, longan and jujube soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of black beans, 10 grams of longan meat, and 30 grams of red dates.

Method: Put black beans, longan meat and red dates in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer on low heat for 1 hour. Take it twice a day, and one course of treatment is 15 days.

Efficacy: It is mainly used to treat sweating syndrome in children due to deficiency of superficial constitution or imbalance of Ying and Wei.

2. Ginseng and Lotus Drink

Ingredients: 10 grams of ginseng and 15 lotus seeds.

Method: Put the ginseng and lotus seeds in a bowl and soak them in boiling water. After peeling and core, put lotus seeds and ginseng in a bowl, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and water, and steam in a steamer for 1 hour. Take 1 dose per day for 15 consecutive days as a course of treatment.

Efficacy: Beneficial to the middle qi, replenishing spleen yin, and stopping spontaneous sweating.

3. Floating wheat and jujube porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of floating wheat, 6 dates, 60 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of water.

Preparation method: Wash the floating wheat, jujube and glutinous rice separately and remove impurities; put all the ingredients into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook it into porridge over high heat, then medium heat, and finally low heat. When feeding it to your baby, you can add sugar according to your baby's taste.

Efficacy: Suitable for children who are weak, sweating, and afraid of cold after illness, especially suitable for children with poor appetite after illness. Note: Children with colds should not take this medicine.

4 Walnut and lotus seed paste

Ingredients: 30 grams of walnuts, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 15 grams of black beans, and 15 grams of Chinese yam.

Preparation method: Dry the above four ingredients and grind them into fine powder. Cook the powder into a paste and eat according to the child's appetite each time. Can be adjusted to savory or sweet. You can also add appropriate amount of rice or flour when cooking to make the juice thicker.

Efficacy: Mainly used to treat night sweats due to spleen deficiency.