What complementary food should babies eat when they have internal heat?

Because the weather is dry and hot in summer or autumn, people always suffer from many diseases. Babies' physical constitutions are not as good as adults in all aspects, so they are more prone to diseases such as getting angry. At this time, parents generally do not want to give their children medicine. The best way is to help their children recover through diet therapy. So many parents want to know what complementary food to eat for babies with internal heat?

1. Feed your baby more fresh vegetables and fruits rich in fiber. When cooking, pay attention to adding foods such as lotus root (the best effect is achieved by boiling it in water or cooking it with rice porridge), radish (green radish is the best, followed by those with red skin and white core), fennel, bitter melon, etc.; appropriately increase the intake of cold fruits such as watermelon, pear, grapefruit, pomelo, coconut, tangerine, hard persimmon, mangosteen, tomato, and other cold fruits, and neutral fruits such as apples, grapes, oranges, papayas, strawberries, cherries, and mulberries; reduce the intake of hot fruits such as longan, lychee, mango, and durian.

2. Try to avoid giving your baby overly greasy food cooked with fried or braised recipes.

3. Control your baby’s snacks, especially eat less refined processed foods that are high in oil and sugar.

4. To supplement high-quality protein for your baby, use stewing or steaming methods to cook. There should be an adequate supply of high-quality proteins such as eggs, lean meat, fish, and beans, but animal protein should be chosen as low in fat as possible and not too greasy. In cooking, secret recipes such as stewing and steaming are often used.

5. Let your baby eat less spicy and irritating food. Eating less spicy and irritating foods can keep your stools from being dry and your urine from being turbid.

6. Provide your baby with light porridge and soup. If the baby has a sore throat, parents can let the child eat more mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, or mung bean soup, lotus seed soup (without removing the lotus core).

7. You can let your baby eat more foods such as hawthorn and yam that can strengthen the spleen and appetite, and help digestion and eliminate food accumulation.

8 kinds of heat-reducing vegetables suitable for babies:

1. Eggplant: Eggplant is cold in nature and can clear away heat and detoxify. When feeding it to babies who are prone to "getting angry", do not cook it with oil. You can steam the eggplant instead.

2. Cabbage: Cabbage is slightly cold in nature and has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving restlessness, and promoting bowel movements.

3. Celery: Celery is cold in nature and can remove liver fire and relieve heat in the lungs and stomach. It is beneficial for babies who are prone to "getting angry" to eat it regularly.

4. Lettuce: Lettuce is slightly cold in nature, crisp and tender in texture, and rich in water. It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving gas, and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for babies with heat in the lungs and stomach.

5. Water chestnut: Water chestnut is cold in nature and is suitable for babies with symptoms of heat in the heart meridian, irritability, thirst, dry stool and yellow urine. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

6. Lotus root: Lotus root is mild and cold in nature. It is best eaten raw or mashed into juice. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. The effect is better if it is mixed with pear juice.

7. Bitter melon: Bitter melon is very cool in nature, bitter in taste, and can relieve the excessive fire in the six meridians. It is a bitter, cold, heat-clearing food.

8. Lily: Lily is mild and slightly cold in nature, and has the effect of clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is effective for residual heat after fever, sore throat, irritability and thirst.

Regarding what complementary foods to feed babies with internal heat, many dietary therapy methods are introduced above. Similarly, the preparation methods of various dietary therapies are also introduced in detail, so that if the child has a sore throat, the symptoms can be treated well to help the child recover a healthy body. The treatment should also be adjusted according to the physical condition.