Treatment for sore throat in children

Sore throat in young children is caused by the upward rush of lung and stomach fire, which is mostly caused by eating a lot of spicy food. Tonsils are the largest lymphoid tissue in the pharynx and are active in childhood. They are generally the largest between the ages of 3 and 10 and gradually shrink after the age of 10. Therefore, the incidence of tonsillitis in children is much higher than that in adults, and it is a common disease in pediatrics. So let's see how to treat the problem of sore throat in children?

The most effective thing is Western medicine's anti-inflammatory drugs. Generally, the symptoms will improve after a few days of use and drinking more water. If you do not want to use western medicine, diet therapy and meridian dredging methods can also very effectively cure this sore throat. Just eat a moderate amount of cold food, you can quickly reduce heat and inflammation. Drinking pear juice, watermelon juice, or bitter melon juice can quickly reduce internal heat. You can also do scraping on your back and chest to dredge the meridians to quickly reduce internal heat and treat sore throat.

There are also the following methods:

(1) Let your child drink more water. You can add a little salt to the water and let your child drink light salt water. Let your children eat more cold fruits, such as watermelon, banana, pear, kiwi, etc. Younger children can drink the juice squeezed from these fruits. Or you can boil bitter melon in water and give it to your child to drink. Cut the bitter melon into thin slices, put it in a plastic bag, and put it in the refrigerator. Whenever you find that your son has internal heat, take about 10 slices, put them in a small pot, add a bowl of water, and cook it on low heat until half a bowl of water remains. Give it to your child to drink in two doses. Basically, the heat will go away after drinking it twice. Bring your own anti-inflammatory medicine.

(2) To treat sore throat, mash half a cup of bitter vegetable juice, soak a wick in water and squeeze out half a cup of juice, mix well and drink.

(3) To treat sore throat and blocked throat, remove the husk of croton seeds, wrap it in cotton paper, and insert it into the left and right nostrils. The throat will be unblocked immediately.

(4) To treat heat and pain in the throat, use the juice of green wormwood leaves and pour it into the throat.

(5) To treat sore throat and phlegm and heat, use borax to dissolve saliva in the throat.

(6) To treat sore throat, rub puffball honey and sip with a little water.

(7) To treat sore throat, use the herb Jiuxianzi, grind it into juice with freshly drawn water, and drink a little. Grinding it with vinegar is also good.

(8) To treat sore throat, use the root of dwarf camphor tree, 2 cups of vinegar, boil 1 cup, hold it in your mouth first and then swallow it, and wait until you spit out phlegm to recover.

(9) To treat dry and sore throat, use a 1-inch piece of Platycodon grandiflorum and swallow the saliva.

(10) A secret recipe for treating sore throat is to mix crushed pig's tooth soap beans with vinegar and put 4-5 spoonfuls into the throat. Phlegm will be vomited out immediately and the pain will stop immediately.

(11) Let your child drink more water. You can add a little salt to the water and let your child drink light salt water.

(12) Let your children eat more cold fruits, such as watermelon, banana, pear, kiwi, etc. Younger children can drink the juice squeezed from these fruits.

(13) Children over 3 years old can also use back scraping therapy. Apply sesame oil along both sides of the child's spine, from the neck to the waist, where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian passes. Then use a scraping board (available in stores; if you don't have a scraping board, use a round, non-edge-filled porcelain spoon) to gently scrape from top to bottom. When the child has internal heat, you will soon see the scraped area turn red. When scraping your child, do not use heavy techniques. Just gently scrape along both sides of the spine a dozen times each. After scraping, let the child drink more warm water, which will quickly reduce the fever and relieve the sore throat.

(14) If parents do not know how to perform scraping or their children are too young to do this, massage can be used to reduce fever.

The above are many methods for treating sore throat in young children! I hope it can be helpful for parents who are troubled by this issue! Children’s various minor illnesses do make parents very anxious and worried, so with these methods, mothers don’t have to worry anymore. Only by finding the right method can you better treat your child's condition!