What should I do if my 2-year-old baby has lung heat and cough?

Two-year-old babies are too young and have very weak resistance. When the seasons change, many babies are more likely to get sick due to the changeable climate. Now is the time when summer turns to autumn, and some babies may have lung heat and cough due to the dry and cold climate. When dealing with your baby's illness, we must be careful and pay great attention to it. So, what should we do if a two-year-old baby has lung heat and cough?

Lung heat cough in children is caused by wind-heat evil or wind-cold turning into heat, which leads to heat stagnation in the lungs, lung qi failure, and coughing as the main symptom. It often occurs after a lung heat cold or without cold symptoms, and is more common in children with low immunity. The main clinical manifestations are cough, coughing up yellow sputum or white sticky sputum, accompanied by dry mouth, sore throat, dry stool, red tongue, fever or wheezing. Commonly used Chinese patent medicines such as Chuanbei loquat syrup and pediatric lung heat cough and asthma oral liquid can be used for treatment. When a child coughs, parents should distinguish between the urgent and the non-urgent and not be too anxious.

Parents can try the following dietary therapy to help children relieve lung heat and cough.

1. Ginger + brown sugar + garlic

If a child has a cold, drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can be a good therapeutic treatment. If the child also has a cough, add 2-3 cloves of garlic to the ginger and brown sugar water and cook together. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes to cook off the spiciness of the garlic. Only then will the child be willing to drink it.

2. Steamed Garlic Water

Take 2-3 cloves of garlic, smash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put in a piece of rock sugar, cover the bowl and put it in the pot to steam. After boiling over high heat, switch to low heat and steam for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is warm, feed it to your child. The garlic does not need to be eaten. Generally 2-3 times a day, half a bowl each time. Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It is very effective in treating cold coughs and kidney deficiency coughs. It is also convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.

3. Roasted oranges

Roast the oranges directly over low heat, turning them constantly, until the peels turn black and steam comes out of the oranges. Wait for the orange to cool down a bit, peel the peel and let your child eat the warm orange segments. If it is a big orange, the child can eat 2-3 petals at a time. If it is a small tribute orange, the child can eat one at a time. It is best to take it with garlic water, 2 to 3 times a day. Oranges are warm in nature and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. After eating roasted oranges, the amount of sputum will be significantly reduced, the antitussive effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat it.

The above are some of the more effective methods for treating children’s lung heat and cough. Because many medicines have side effects, they are not suitable for babies. However, Chinese medicine is quite bitter and babies are reluctant to drink it, so parents can use diet therapy to treat their babies. In this way, the baby will be willing to eat and the treatment purpose can be achieved.