What is the best food for children with cold and cough?

Different people have different physiques, especially children whose physique is always in a low state. Changes in weather will often cause children to catch a cold, have fever, cough, runny nose and other symptoms. Seeing their children listless and with a loss of appetite due to a cold, parents will feel anxious. Good food can not only increase children's appetite but also help reduce the further spread of the cold.

Children have weak resistance. If they have a weak spleen and stomach, improper diet, and eat too much indigestible food, the essence of water and grain cannot be transformed and becomes phlegm. This will be stored in the lungs and cause coughing. Coughing can cause lung damage, so it must be taken seriously. What food is good for children to eat when they have a cold and cough?

Wind-cold invading the lungs causes cough: symptoms include acute onset, cough, thin white sputum, clear runny nose, nasal congestion and sneezing, headache, body aches, fear of cold, and slight fever.

It is advisable to eat spicy and warm foods, such as ginger, white onions, and fermented black beans. Avoid eating raw, cold and cool foods, including 1. various iced drinks; 2. cold fruits and vegetables like watermelon, pears, bananas, kiwis, etc.; 3. sour and astringent foods like vinegar, sauerkraut, kimchi, ginkgo nuts, lotus root nodes and unripe persimmons and crabapples, etc.

Wind-heat invading the lungs and causing cough: symptoms include runny yellow nasal discharge, coughing up yellow thick and sticky sputum, accompanied by fever, sweating, dry, sore and itchy throat, and thirst for water.

It is advisable to eat spicy, cool and light food to dispel wind evil, clear away heat, detoxify and relieve cough, such as chrysanthemum, tea, sweet pear, sweet orange, etc. Avoid foods including: 1. Sour and astringent foods. Such as vinegar, sauerkraut, lemon, hawthorn, persimmon, and other fruits; 2. Spicy and hot foods such as onion, ginger, pepper, garlic, leek, and other vegetables and longan meat, jujube, apricot and other fruits; 3. Fatty, sweet and greasy foods.

The above are some foods that children should eat and should avoid when they have a cold or cough. I hope parents will take it seriously. At the same time, they should also take measures to prevent children from catching a cold, such as drinking more water, exercising actively, eating more fruits and vegetables, etc. The child’s physical condition concerns the family’s heart, so it is important to have a healthy body.