What are the methods of dietary treatment for children's cough

What dietary treatments can be used to relieve children’s cough? This issue is of concern to many parents, because children's bodies are fragile and their physical development can be easily affected by symptoms such as colds. Therefore, it is very important to prevent children from catching colds or treat their colds and coughs. Now that medicine is advanced, there are many medicines to treat children's coughs, but the medicines have side effects. Let's take a look at the dietary therapy methods for children's coughs.

1. Ginger + brown sugar + garlic. If a child has a cold, drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can be a good therapeutic treatment. If the child also has a cough, add 2 to 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger and brown sugar water and cook together. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes to remove the spiciness of the garlic. Only then will the child be willing to drink it.

2. Steamed garlic water. Take 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, smash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put in a piece of rock sugar, cover the bowl and put it in the pot to steam. After boiling over high heat, switch to low heat and steam for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is warm, feed it to your child. The garlic does not need to be eaten. Generally 2 to 3 times a day, half a bowl each time. Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It is very effective in treating cold coughs and kidney deficiency coughs. It is also convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.

3. Roast oranges. Roast the oranges directly over low heat, turning them constantly, until the peels turn black and steam comes out of the oranges. Wait for the orange to cool down a bit, peel the peel and let your child eat the warm orange segments. If it is a big orange, the child can eat 2 to 3 slices at a time. If it is a small tribute orange, the child can eat one at a time. It is best to take it with garlic water, 2 to 3 times a day. Oranges are warm in nature and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. After eating roasted oranges, the amount of sputum will be significantly reduced, the antitussive effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat it.

There are many dietary treatments for children's coughs. These methods are classic dietary treatments that have been popular in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time. This is because many vegetable foods contain medicinal ingredients and have certain medicinal functions. In addition, dietary treatments have more advantages than drug treatments. Dietary treatments have no side effects and cause less harm to the body.