Can children eat cantaloupe when they have a cough?

Cough symptoms in children often last longer and are more severe than those in adults, so parents are worried about their children's cough symptoms and will look for many different ways to treat the cough. Hami melon is a very sweet fruit, especially the Hami melon produced in Xinjiang, which receives sufficient sunshine and is sweeter. But can children eat Hami melon when they have a cough?

Can I eat cantaloupe when I have a cough?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, melon fruits are cold in nature and have the effects of curing hunger, promoting bowel movements, invigorating qi, clearing lung heat and relieving cough. They are suitable for patients with kidney disease, stomach disease, cough, phlegm and asthma, anemia and constipation.

You can eat cantaloupe when you have a cough. Hami melon is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It contains protein, dietary fiber, carotene, pectin, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, etc. In addition, Hami melon has the effect of cooling down, relieving heat, and quenching thirst.

What should I pay attention to in my diet when I have a cough?

If you have a cough in your life, in addition to eating cantaloupe to clear lung heat and relieve cough, you also need to pay attention to your daily diet, especially the following points:

1. Avoid drinking cold or frozen drinks when you have a cough. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "a cold body and cold drinks can damage the lungs", which means that once the body is exposed to cold, drinking cold foods can damage the lungs. Coughing is mostly caused by lung diseases that lead to lung qi stagnation and upward flow. If the food is still too cold at this time, it will easily cause blockage of lung qi, aggravating the symptoms and not healing over time.

2. Pay attention to a light diet: Whether it is a child or an adult, coughing is often accompanied by phlegm, and the amount of phlegm is related to the spleen. The spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and is responsible for the digestion and absorption of food in the human body. If you eat too much cold food, it will damage your spleen and stomach, causing the spleen's function to decline and moisture to accumulate and produce phlegm. In addition, eating too much fatty and sweet food in your daily diet can cause internal heat, aggravate cough, and cause phlegm to be thick and difficult to cough up. Therefore, during the period of coughing, pay attention to eating a lighter diet.

3. Diet therapy: Patients can try the following diet therapy methods in their lives, which have a certain effect on the recovery of the disease:

(1) Ginger and Apricot Soup: 10g of almonds (rinse and remove the skin and inner tip, then crush), 6g of ginger (peeled and crushed with 4g of salt), 5g of licorice (ground into powder and lightly fried), mix well, add boiling water to make a soup, and drink.

(2) Pear juice porridge: Chop a fresh pear with the skin on, place it in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and cook it with 50 grams of clean glutinous rice into porridge, which can be consumed warm.

(3) Astragalus and Cordyceps Chicken Soup: 100 g hen meat, wash, remove fat, and cut into pieces. Blanch the chicken pieces in boiling water, put them into a stewing pot together with 10 grams of astragalus, 5 grams of cordyceps, and 3 grams of tangerine peel. Add appropriate amount of boiling water into the pot, stew over low heat for 3 hours, and serve after seasoning.

Finally, if you have a cough, you need to pay more attention not only to your diet, but also to take medication according to the doctor's instructions, so that you can recover faster!