Three-year-old child coughs and has phlegm

If a three-year-old child has a cough and is accompanied by phlegm, parents should pay more attention. First of all, we need to determine whether the child’s cough is caused by cold or heat, because different causes require different treatments. It is recommended to use diet therapy to treat cough in three-year-old children.

1. White radish water

White radish has very good effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and promoting diuresis. When your child coughs and has phlegm, white radish water can have a good phlegm-resolving effect. The cooking method of white radish water is very simple. You only need to use half a white radish, cut it into pieces, add clean water directly, put it in a pot and boil it until the white radish is fully cooked. The nutritional value of white radish is very high. Drinking white radish water can not only relieve cough, but also supplement nutrition, killing two birds with one stone.

2. Boil loquat leaves and licorice together

Loquat leaves themselves have a good effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and are one of the main ingredients of many cough medicines. Licorice is an excellent ingredient for moistening the throat and relieving sore throat. Boiling these two herbs together can help your child relieve cough.

The specific method is to choose an appropriate amount of licorice and loquat leaves, add water and boil them into soup, and then add some rock sugar for seasoning. When you give it to your child, remember to filter out the residue!

3. Boil sesame, red dates, honey and walnuts together to make soup

Moms and dads just need to take out the walnuts, crush them as much as possible, remove the core of the red dates, and crush them as much as possible, then crush the sesame seeds into crumbs, mix them, add honey water and water, put them in a pot, boil them over high heat, then simmer over low heat for five minutes, and after it has released its flavor and become a thick juice, you can give it to your children to drink.

4. Sichuan Fritillary Rock Sugar and Snow Pear

The main raw materials are snow pear, rock sugar and Sichuan loquat, which are very simple. Pear itself is an ingredient for clearing away heat and reducing fire, while Fritillaria cirrhosa is a good medicine for relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Boiling pears, Fritillaria cirrhosa and rock sugar together is very effective in treating children's cough and phlegm. Specifically, parents need to wash the whole pear, peel it, remove the core, and then cut it into pieces. Then add some Fritillaria cirrhosa and rock sugar, put them in the pot, boil them over high heat, and then simmer them over low heat.

When the baby has a severe cough, parents can hold the baby in their arms and gently pat the baby's back to help the baby cough out the phlegm in the throat. In addition, the cleanliness and temperature of the air are very important. Parents should try to adjust the room temperature to around 20-26 degrees and keep the humidity between 50-70 percent.