What can children eat when they have a cold and cough?

It is very common for children to catch a cold and cough occasionally. It is very necessary to know what children can eat to treat their cold and cough. There are two types of colds, wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. The symptoms caused by these two types of colds are different, so the dietary treatments are also different. Let’s learn more about it.

【Cough due to wind and cold】

If the tongue coating is white, it is a wind-cold cough, which means the child has a severe cold. The sputum from the cough is thinner, white and sticky, and there is nasal congestion and runny nose. At this time, some warm, expectorant and cough-relieving foods should be eaten. The specific method is as follows:

1. Steamed Garlic Water

Take 2-3 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. Feed your child garlic water, but he or she does not need to eat the garlic. 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 effective in treating cold coughs and kidney deficiency coughs. It is also convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.

2. Roasted 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 large 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.

Note: Do not eat cold foods, such as mung beans, crabs, clams, snails, persimmons, grapefruit, bananas, kiwis, sugarcane, watermelons, melons, bitter melons, water chestnuts, arrowheads, kelp, seaweed, raw radishes, eggplants, lotus roots, winter melons, and loofahs.

【Wind-heat cough】

If the child's tongue coating is yellow or red, it is a wind-heat cough, which means that the child has a lot of internal heat. The phlegm in the cough is yellow, thick, and difficult to cough up, and there is a sore throat. At this time, the child should eat some food that clears the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. The specific method is as follows:

1. Pear + rock sugar + Sichuan Fritillary

Cut the pear in half horizontally near the stem, remove the core, add 2-3 crystal sugars and 5-6 Fritillaria cirrhosa (the Fritillaria cirrhosa should be crushed into powder), put the pear in a bowl, steam it for about 30 minutes, and feed it to your baby in two portions. This recipe has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Because babies nowadays generally like to stay cool, they turn on the air conditioner when they are hot and eat cold fruits all year round, so the number of babies suffering from wind-heat cough has decreased significantly.

2. You can also give your baby the following foods:

① Persimmon: It is very cold in nature and can clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. But the baby can only eat one at a time, and eating too much will make his stomach uncomfortable.

② Watermelon: It is cold in nature and can cure all fever symptoms.

③Loquat: cool in nature, can moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for babies with febrile cough and yellow sputum.

④ Water chestnut: It is cold in nature. Water chestnut water can resolve phlegm and clear away heat. Take 2-3 water chestnuts, peel them, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water, and boil for 5 minutes.

⑤ Eating winter melon soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices, fried bitter melon, etc. can also help eliminate internal heat, remove fire, and relieve cough.

Note: Do not eat spicy or irritating foods, such as mutton, dog meat, black-bone chicken, fish, shrimp, dates, longan meat, peppers, cherries, silkworm pupae, etc. (www.shiliaowang.com).

【Cough due to internal injury】

Internal injury cough refers to a long-term, recurring chronic cough. Or the cough may be caused by a cold or fever. Although the symptoms of the cold and fever have disappeared, the cough has not gone away. Babies who cough repeatedly have poor appetite and no appetite due to the excessive use of anti-inflammatory and cough suppressants, and their tongue is almost covered with white coating. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their children foods that can regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, and replenish the lung qi. The specific method is as follows:

1. Yam porridge

Peel the yam, cut it into small pieces and put it into a food grinder. Add half a bowl of water and process the yam into a thin paste. Then pour it into the pot and bring to a boil while stirring. Eat on an empty stomach. A bowl of yam porridge can be fed to the baby in 2-3 times. Yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, replenishes lung qi, and benefits kidney essence. This recipe is most suitable for infants and young children. It can not only relieve cough, but also has a good therapeutic effect on children's anorexia, excessive sweating, drooling, qi deficiency and other diseases. It should be noted that the yam should not be boiled for too long, otherwise the amylase contained in it will decompose and lose its nourishing effect.

2. Walnut + sesame + red dates + honey

Crush half a pound of walnut kernels, 2 ounces of black sesame seeds, and half a pound of red dates into powder and put them in a large bowl and mix well. Then add 1 tablespoon of honey and 3 tablespoons of water and mix well. Cover the large bowl and steam it in a large pot for 40 minutes. Give your baby one spoonful every morning and evening. This recipe can not only cure children's chronic cough, bronchitis, and asthma, but is also effective for children's constipation. Long-term consumption can enhance the baby's physique.

Diet therapy can not only reduce the accumulation of drug toxicity in children's bodies and reduce the harm of drugs to children, but also play a certain therapeutic role. So if the child’s cold and cough is not so serious, you can treat it with food. If the condition does not improve or is already very serious, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time.