Diet therapy for six-month-old baby cough

Many parents find it difficult to discover what diseases their children may have. For example, if a baby over one month old starts coughing, the parents may think that the child has a cold and give the child medicine. However, do we need to know how to identify these symptoms and conditions in children?

Cough is the most common disease in children. In addition to taking medicine, the following simple diet therapy also has a certain effect. You may wish to try it:

1. Radish and tangerine peel soup: Slice 1 white radish, add 5 white peppercorns, 10g ginger, 5g tangerine peel, boil the soup, then add 50g rock sugar. It is used in the early stages of the disease when coughing occurs frequently, the throat is itchy, the cough is heavy and dull, and the sputum is clear and thin.

2. Monk fruit tea: 9g of Guangxi monk fruit, decocted in water. It is used for cough with yellow and sticky phlegm that is difficult to cough up.

3. Loofah juice: Take the juice from the loofah in autumn, steam it in water and drink it. It is used for prolonged coughing, with a lot of sputum that is yellow and sticky, uncomfortable to cough up, or has a hot and fishy smell.

4. Chuanbei Pear: Steam 5g of Chuanbei and 15g of crystal sugar with pears. It is used for cough with excessive phlegm that is yellow and sticky.

5. Job's tears, yam and winter melon seeds porridge: 50g job's tears, 100g yam and rice each, 50g winter melon seeds, cook together into porridge. Used for cough with a lot of white sputum.

6. Almond, radish and pork lung soup: 1 pork lung and 1 white radish, cut into pieces, add 9g almonds, stew together until cooked. It is used for people with long-term cough, wheezing and shortness of breath after activities.

7. Lily and pork lung soup: 30g lily, 250g pork lung, stew until done, add a little salt to season, drink the soup and eat the pig lung. Used for prolonged cough, dry cough with little sputum.

If a six-month-old baby has a cough, parents should not give the child any medicine indiscriminately. Generally speaking, a child’s cough may be due to a cold. You can choose to give the child some appropriate, heat-removing, paste-like food.