Dietary care for children with cough

Cough is one of the most common symptoms of exogenous diseases in children. It is important to care for children with cough and pay attention to dietary taboos. Generally speaking, children with coughs should pay attention to the following points in their diet.

1. Avoid eating cold food

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. 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.

2. Avoid eating fatty and sweet foods

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. In daily diet, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause internal heat, aggravate cough, and make the phlegm thick and difficult to cough up. For children with asthma, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause phlegm and heat to combine, blocking the respiratory tract, aggravating asthma, and making the disease difficult to cure. So you should eat some light food during coughing.

3. Avoid eating oranges

Many people believe that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm, so they let children with coughs eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, but orange flesh can generate heat and phlegm. It is impossible for ordinary children to eat only the peel without eating the orange flesh.

Therefore, children should eat a light diet during their cough period. For children with long-term cough, you can boil pears and rock sugar in water to drink, which has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. You can also cook porridge with fresh lilies, which is very effective for children who have been coughing for a long time and have weak lung qi. For children with spleen deficiency, they can eat more yam, or cook lotus seed porridge, coix seed porridge and jujube porridge.