What to do if your three and a half year old baby coughs

If a three and a half year old baby has a cough, you need to pay more attention to life care. You can use some dietary therapies to improve your baby's symptoms. Do not let them catch cold again, otherwise it will make your child's body worse. If necessary, you can use dietary therapy to treat this disease. You can give them more semi-liquid food to improve their body.

Characteristics: cough, itchy throat, clear sputum, nasal congestion and clear nasal discharge, etc., and white tongue coating. Treatment should be to clear the lungs, dispel cold and relieve cough.

Traditional Chinese medicine recommended remedies:

Perilla porridge: 10 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of japonica rice, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 dates. First cook porridge with japonica rice. When the porridge is almost cooked, add perilla leaves, ginger and jujube, and drink it while it is hot.

Scallion porridge: 50 grams of rice, 5 slices of ginger, 5 pieces of scallion with roots, 5 ml of rice vinegar, add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, drink while hot.

Fried radish with almonds: almonds

10 grams of sweet potato, 3 slices of ginger, 100 grams of white radish, decocted in water, 1 dose per day.

Walnut and ginger drink: Crush 5 walnuts and take with appropriate amount of ginger juice.

Ginger, garlic and brown sugar soup: 5 slices of ginger, 12 grams of brown sugar, 3 slices of garlic. Add water and cook for 10 minutes, then drink the soup.

Ginger, sugar and tofu soup: 200 grams of tofu, 50 grams of brown sugar, 3 slices of ginger. Add a little water and cook until done.

Tangerine peel, ginger and honey water: 60 grams of tangerine peel, 30 grams of ginger, and 250 grams of honey. First, boil the tangerine peel and ginger in water, take out the decoction once every 15 minutes, add water and boil again, take out the decoction three times in total, combine the decoctions, simmer over low heat to concentrate, add honey when it becomes thick and sticky, turn off the heat when it boils, and bottle for later use. Take 3 times a day, 3 tablespoons each time.

Scrambled eggs with sesame oil and minced ginger: Put a small spoonful of sesame oil into the wok, add the minced ginger when the oil is hot, fry it in the oil for a while, then beat in an egg and stir well. When children have a cough due to cold or physical weakness, let them eat this medicine once every night while it is hot before going to bed. If you persist in eating this medicine for a few days, you will see obvious results.

Pear + Sichuan peppercorns + rock sugar: Wash a pear, cut it in half horizontally, remove the core, add 20 Sichuan peppercorns and 2 rock sugars, put the pear in half and put them in a bowl. Steam it for about half an hour. One pear can be eaten in two times. Steamed pears with pepper and rock sugar are very effective in treating cold and cough, but some children don’t like the taste of pepper, so parents can choose for themselves.

Common Chinese patent medicine for home use: Tongxuan Lifei Pills. Tangerine peel pills, Tangerine peel cough solution, etc.