What food is good for children with cold?

Babies are often prone to catching colds due to their young age and weak resistance. When a child is sick, parents will naturally be very worried and will be more careful about their child's diet. So what kind of food is good for children with colds? What kinds of food can help them recover? In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors and experts have obtained the following dietary therapy recipes after continuous research. I hope parents can learn from them and use them to keep their children away from colds as soon as possible.

Diet therapy for colds:

Modern medicine does not have any specific medicine to prevent or treat colds. Some single prescriptions used by the people have good effects in improving symptoms, shortening the course of the disease and preventing colds.

Dietary Recipe for “Wind-Heat” Cold

The most common cold in babies is wind-heat cold, the main symptoms are: high fever, slight chills, headache, sticky or yellow nasal discharge, sore throat, cough, thick yellow phlegm, thirst, and yellow or thin white tongue coating.

Scallion and Coriander Soup

Take appropriate amounts of scallion roots, coriander roots, and cabbage heads, boil them in water and drink it instead of tea, then take it while hot to induce sweating.

Rice Vinegar Radish Vegetable

250 grams of raw radish and appropriate amount of rice vinegar. Wash and slice the radish, then soak it in rice vinegar for several hours. Eat it as a side dish every day. Take 1 dose daily. It can relieve exterior symptoms with its pungent and cool properties, and help digestion and detoxify. Suitable for influenza.

Hangchrysanthemum Sugar Tea

30 grams of chrysanthemum and appropriate amount of white sugar. Soak the chrysanthemums in boiling water in a teapot and add appropriate amount of sugar. Let your baby drink it every day. It can promote lung qi, relieve cough and reverse cough, and clear the accumulated fire in the three burners. Suitable for babies with the initial stage of wind-heat cold, headache and fever.

Dietary treatment for colds caused by wind and cold

Another type of cold is the cold caused by wind and cold. The main symptoms are: severe chills, mild fever, headache without sweating, pain in the limbs, heavy nasal congestion, clear runny nose, cough, thin white sputum, and no thirst.

Onion milk drink

2 green onions, 30 ml breast milk (or milk). Wash and split the scallion whites, put them into a covered cup together with breast milk, steam them in water, remove the scallions, pour into a bottle, and feed the baby. Take 3 to 4 times a day for 2 to 3 days for infants with colds.

Ginger Candy Drink

5 grams of ginger and 10 grams of brown sugar. Wash and cut the ginger into shreds, put it into a cup, pour boiling water over it, cover and soak for 5 minutes, then add brown sugar. It should be spicy enough and be consumed while hot. Cover yourself with a blanket after taking it to prevent sweating. It can cure fever, chills, headache, body aches, no sweating, loss of appetite, nausea, etc. at the beginning of a cold. This is the most commonly used folk therapy.

What kind of food is most beneficial to the health of children with colds? Parents must listen carefully to the doctor's advice and try to choose the correct diet therapy during the child's cold to help the child get rid of the trouble of the cold as soon as possible. At the same time, in life, parents should educate their children to participate in more physical exercise, not to be too greasy in diet, to have a reasonable nutritional combination, and to let children eat more fruits and vegetables. These details of life can enhance children's physique and are conducive to their healthy growth!