Why does my child only cough in the morning?

It is a common phenomenon for children to cough in the morning. It is mainly caused by colds, pneumonia, bronchitis and other reasons. When they get up in the morning, they are affected by the outside air or dust, which often causes coughing symptoms. When a child coughs, it is necessary to actively treat the primary disease, strengthen diet, maintain adequate rest, and avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

What to do if your child coughs

1. Avoid cold food

It is not advisable to drink cold or frozen drinks when you have a cough. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold body and cold drinks will damage the lungs", which means that once the body is exposed to cold, drinking cold foods will damage the lungs. Coughing is mostly caused by lung diseases, which lead to lung qi stagnation and upward flow. If the food is still too cold at this time, it will easily cause blockage of lung qi, aggravating the symptoms and not healing over time. Whether it is a child or an adult, coughing is often accompanied by phlegm, and the amount of phlegm is related to the spleen. The spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and is responsible for the digestion and absorption of food in the human body. If you eat too much cold food, it will damage your spleen and stomach, causing the spleen's function to decline and moisture to accumulate and produce phlegm.

2. Avoid fatty and sweet foods

Food Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. In daily diet, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause internal heat, aggravate cough, and make the phlegm thick and difficult to cough up. For children with asthma, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause phlegm and heat to combine, blocking the respiratory tract, aggravating asthma, and making the disease difficult to cure. Don't eat too much fried food. When children cough, their gastrointestinal function is relatively weak. Fried foods can increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, increase moisture and heat, breed phlegm, and make the cough difficult to cure.

3. Avoid fish, shrimp and crab

Most people know that when you have a cough, you should avoid "irritating foods" and should not eat fish, as fish has the greatest impact on "wind-heat cough". Children with cough will have their cough aggravated after eating fishy foods, which is related to the fishy smell irritating the respiratory tract and the allergy to the protein in fish and shrimp foods. Children who are allergic to certain fish and eggs should be more careful, among which silver carp and hairtail are the most affected.

4. Avoid sweet and sour foods

Sour food often causes phlegm to accumulate, making it difficult to cough up, thus aggravating the condition and making the cough difficult to cure. When the cough is severe, even some sweet and sour fruits, such as apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. should not be eaten. Eating too much sweets will increase heat and make the inflammation difficult to heal. People have the custom of stewing raw pears with rock sugar to treat coughs. However, this way of eating is inappropriate for a new cough.

5. Avoid eating oranges

Many people believe that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm, so they let children with coughs eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, but orange flesh can generate heat and phlegm. It is impossible for ordinary children to eat only the peel without eating the orange flesh.