Is there any dietary treatment for children's cough?

Children's cough is a common childhood disease. The general causes of children's cough are lung heat, respiratory tract infection, etc. However, no matter what causes children's cough, it is not good to just use medicine. This is mainly because some medicines may have side effects on children. Therefore, many parents want to know if there are any dietary treatments for children’s coughs so as to avoid the side effects of medications.

China pays great attention to health preservation, so dietary therapy for some diseases is indeed very popular, especially for children. Because children have a certain fear of medicines, dietary therapy is much more popular with children than drug therapy. Common foods that help children recover from coughs include:

garlic

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, garlic is spicy, sweet and warm in nature. It can warm the middle and strengthen the stomach, help digestion and regulate qi, detoxify and kill insects. It also has the effects of protecting cardiovascular system, protecting liver function, preventing colds, and having strong bactericidal effects. Therefore, if you drink some garlic water in moderation, it will be very effective in curing children's cough.

pear

When I was a child, whenever I had a cold or cough, my family would boil a pear and add sugar to it. In fact, pears do have the effect of treating coughs. Because pears themselves contain a lot of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotene and various vitamins. In addition, pear peel, pear blossoms, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, with good effects of clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It has good effects on dryness-heat cough, cold cough, measles cough and tracheitis cough.

Loquat

In Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, relieving gas, benefiting the lungs, and stopping vomiting, thirst and phlegm." It can be seen that loquat has a very good effect in relieving and treating children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the skin and eat it directly. But be sure to clean the leather because it is very dirty.

radish

Radish has the effects of clearing heat and promoting body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting urination, and detoxifying. The simplest way is to boil a bowl of radish water for the child, which is very effective for cough. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish soup, candied radish, radish sake decoction, etc. as medicinal food to better treat children's cough.

orange

Oranges are sweet and sour, and cool in nature. For children, they have the effects of stimulating appetite, regulating qi, quenching thirst and moistening the lungs. When a child has a cough, you can roast the oranges or stir-fry them in a pan. If children eat it, the effect of treating cough will be better.

Although these dietary therapies for children's coughs do have certain effects, the causes of children's coughs are different, so you must make targeted choices when choosing dietary therapies. Therefore, it is best to consult a doctor first to find out why your child has a cough, and then use targeted dietary therapy to achieve the best results.