What to do if your child has a sore throat

Sore throat is mostly caused by factors such as lung and stomach fire or exogenous wind-heat. Usually, sore throat in children is often accompanied by fever, high fever, and dry stool. When a child has a sore throat and fever, parents need to first identify the nature of the sore throat and provide targeted treatment. Let me share with you what to do if a child has a sore throat.

(1) Use 3 slices of ginger, 3 1-inch long green onions, and half a spoon of brown sugar, add water and boil for 10 minutes. Then give it to your child to drink, 3 times a day. Parents should pay attention. Once they observe that their child’s tongue coating is no longer white, or the color of urine has become darker, they can stop giving the treatment. Children under two years old are afraid of spicy food. Parents can add two slices of ginger, two pieces of green onion, and a few drops of vinegar to the porridge cooked for their children. After cooking, remove the ginger and green onion when giving it to the children. This ginger and scallion porridge is very effective in dispelling cold, inducing sweating and reducing fever. It can be fed to children 2 to 3 times a day. After the child's fever subsides, stop adding green onions. Wait until the white coating has obviously disappeared, and even stop adding ginger.

(2) After drinking the ginger, scallion and brown sugar water, parents can let their children soak their feet in hotter water for 20 to 30 minutes, rub the soles of the feet 50 times each, pinch each of the 10 toes 20 to 30 times each, and finally massage the tonsil reflex area at the base of the big toe. As long as the child has a sore throat, he or she will definitely feel pain when pressing this area. After finding the pain point, press on the painful area for 5 to 10 minutes. Massage both feet in this way, 2 to 3 times a day, and the child's sore throat will be relieved.

(3) During the entire treatment process, parents should give their children plenty of warm water, one cup every hour, to encourage their children to urinate more often, which will significantly relieve sore throats.

(4) Make sure to keep up with your diet. Children get sick because of their weak and cold bodies, so their nutrition must be strengthened. Children over two years old can eat Guyuan Paste 1 to 2 times a day, half a spoonful each time. Parents should also give their children more well-cooked meat broth or chicken broth, and eat the meat together. Do not eat fish, shrimp, yam or pepper when your throat is swollen and sore.

(5) Children who sleep with their arms outside at night, often go barefoot and do not like to wear shoes, like to sit directly on the ground, and eat cold fruits all year round, if they also like to eat fish, are more likely to suffer from various chronic diseases of the head and face, such as chronic rhinitis, chronic tonsillitis, otitis media, etc. If parents want to completely cure their children's chronic tonsillitis, in addition to strengthening nutrition, they should try to feed their children more foods with neutral or warm properties in their daily diet. They can eat cool foods in summer, but foods that are extremely cold should not be eaten all year round. At the same time, try to eat less fish and shrimp. The most important thing is to prevent children from catching cold.

When children have a sore throat, parents can deal with it according to the methods I mentioned above. In addition, treatment still needs to be examined in a regular hospital and then treated with medication according to the doctor's instructions. In addition, in daily life, you need to pay attention to the baby's balanced diet and nutrition, pay attention to frequent ventilation indoors, and take the baby outdoors to breathe fresh air more often.