Can babies drink mung bean soup after taking medicine?

Many babies need to take medicine when they have a cold because their parents think that taking medicine is better than injections. However, there are many taboos and precautions during the period of taking medicine. This is what you need to know. First of all, don’t give your baby random drinks, especially boiled mung bean soup. Although it can clear away heat and detoxify, it has certain benefits for fever and colds, but you need to learn the antidote. Drinking mung bean soup after taking the medicine will cause the medicine to lose its efficacy.

1. Cooked mung bean soup, that is, cooked mung bean porridge, does not have the so-called detoxifying effect.

2. Mung bean is not only a food, but also a Chinese medicine. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and promoting salivation, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

3. Mung beans are a good food for clearing heat and detoxifying, as long as they are taken 30 minutes apart from medicines. Especially for those who take medicines regularly, it is recommended to eat mung beans frequently because it can eliminate the toxic side effects of medicines in the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach. From the perspective of diet therapy, the natural properties of food such as warmth or coldness must be consistent with the physical condition of the eater in order to play a maintenance (maintenance food) role.

1. People with cold constitution should not drink too much mung bean soup

People with a cold constitution experience symptoms such as cold and weak limbs, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and loose stools.

Eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and even cause digestive system diseases such as diarrhea (leading to dehydration in severe cases), joint and muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, and chronic gastritis caused by stomach cold and weak spleen and stomach.

Drinking mung bean soup can prevent heatstroke, diagnose food poisoning, etc. It also has certain therapeutic effects on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, acne, etc. However, it is not suitable for people with severe cold constitution, weak constitution or taking medicine.

2. People with weak constitution should not drink too much mung bean soup

Since the protein content in mung beans is higher than that in chicken, large molecular proteins need to be converted into small molecular peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before they can be absorbed by the human body. This type of people has poor gastrointestinal digestion function and is prone to diarrhea due to poor digestion.