What to do if your child has ear pain due to internal heat

Children have relatively poor resistance, and they like to eat snacks and fried foods. Especially in the summer when the weather is dry, children are more likely to get hot and irritated. Getting a fever can easily lead to symptoms such as dry mouth, dry stool, nosebleeds, ear pain, etc. Earache is the most uncomfortable thing for children, and mothers will also be worried. So what should we do if children have earache due to heat?

1. What to do if your child has ear pain due to internal heat

1. If the ear pain is caused by getting angry, you can relieve the ear pain by applying hot compress. The method of hot compress is to use a hot towel or a hot water bag with a temperature that is not too high, apply it in front of the tragus, and gently massage back and forth. This can effectively relieve the pain.

2. It is also very important to drink more water when you have a sore throat. Moisturizing the body by drinking water can also be very helpful in relieving the ear pain symptoms caused by a sore throat. When you have a sore throat, you should drink more water than usual, or eat more fruits that are rich in water, such as grapefruit, white pear, watermelon, etc., which are nutritious foods that can reduce heat.

2. What should you eat when you have internal heat?

1. Heat-clearing and detoxifying foods such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoots, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc. have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for various symptoms of real fire.

2. Bitter and cold foods that can reduce fire, such as bitter melon, bitter herbs, water chestnuts, loofah, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frogs, etc., can transform heat and reduce fire with their cold nature, and are mostly used for symptoms of real fire.

3. Foods that can promote dampness and reduce fire include winter melon, watermelon, coix seed, lentil, barley, amaranth, melon, red bean, black fish, duck meat, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken's gizzard lining, etc., which are suitable for various symptoms of real fire.

4. Vegetables that attack the real fire include rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis, scutellaria, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. They are suitable for symptoms such as short and yellow urine, dry and hard stool, dry and bitter mouth, abdominal distension and poor appetite.

5. Foods that cool blood and astringe blood, such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw earth, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn silk, mango, eel, bamboo leaf, white grass root, purslane, etc., can be used for nosebleed, bloody stool, hematuria, bleeding gums and other conditions where blood heat is rampant.