What should children eat if they have lung heat and cough?

Many children always suffer from various symptoms before they reach adulthood, especially some children with picky eating and anorexia. They have poor physical resistance and are more likely to get sick. Among them, lung heat and cough are common diseases among children. When this disease occurs, parents will take their children to the hospital for treatment actively, but they don’t know what to let their children eat.

Causes of lung heat cough:

Exogenous pathogens attack the lungs (35%):

Lung heat, cough and sputum are caused by wind-heat evil toxins invading the lungs, or wind-cold turning into heat, which burns the lungs and fails to clear and descend the phlegm. The phlegm-heat inside the lungs leads to heat stagnation in the lungs, resulting in a symptom characterized by cough. It often occurs after a lung heat cold or without cold symptoms.

Lung dryness damages the lungs (20%):

Cough caused by dry evil damaging the lungs. The symptoms include cough with little sputum, hoarseness in the throat, thirst and thirst, constipation and dry skin. The main clinical manifestations are repeated coughing and coughing up yellow sputum, accompanied by dry mouth, sore throat, constipation, fever or wheezing, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy tongue coating, and little fluid. The treatment should be to clear dryness and moisten the lungs, with Qingzao Jiufei Decoction etc.

Weak immunity (15%):

Lung heat cough is often seen in children with low immunity, and the main manifestation is recurrent coughing. Clinically, Chinese patent medicines such as Children's Lung Heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid are mainly used for treatment, which can significantly promote the peristalsis of pharyngeal and bronchial cilia and enhance the expectoration function. At the same time, the medicine can cover the inflamed pharyngeal mucosa, relieve inflammatory stimulation, and have a significant and lasting antitussive effect.

Treatment

Pears are a good food for people with lung heat cough or wind heat cough. Pears are cool in nature, sweet in taste, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and are suitable for people with hot cough. People usually peel the pears, take out the cores, add 1 to 3 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, and stew them in water, twice a day, one pear each time. Or you can choose the method of the late famous doctor Pu Fuzhou, use 3 to 5 grams of the Chinese medicine ephedra, mash or pound it, then put it into the heart of the pear and steam it for consumption. Luo Han Guo can clear the lungs and relieve cough, and is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind heat cough. You can use 1 monk fruit and 15 grams of persimmon, boil them in water and drink them. Persimmon is cold in nature and can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, so it is suitable for people with hot cough. According to modern pharmacological experiments, persimmons do have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than the antitussive effect. Loquat is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" says: "Loquat can cure cough and spitting." It is suitable for people who suffer from hot cough and spitting yellow purulent sputum.

Choose plant or animal protein with high nutritional value, such as milk, eggs, fish, lean meat, various soy products, etc. Various fresh vegetables, fruits and melons are rich in vitamins and have high nutritional value.

When a child has a lung heat cough, while actively cooperating with the doctor's treatment, be sure to let the child eat more lung-moistening and cough-relieving foods. It is best not to eat spicy, irritating, or greasy foods. Be sure to let the child drink more warm water during the cough and pay more attention to bed rest. Parents must take good care of their children.