What to do if your child has a cough after eating cold food

In summer, everyone likes to eat some cold food. If it is not cold, they will put it in the refrigerator to chill it for a while. The main reason is that cold food can lower the body's own temperature and make people feel cool temporarily. Many children like to drink some iced drinks in summer, but they may experience some symptoms in their bodies after drinking them. Next, I will tell you what to do if your child coughs after eating cold food. Parents can learn about it.

1. Ginger, garlic and brown sugar soup is good for dispelling cold and relieving cough

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

Efficacy: Warms the lungs and relieves cough.

2. Eat mint and burdock porridge to dispel cold and relieve cough

Preparation method: 6 grams of mint, 10 grams of burdock seeds, and appropriate amount of polished rice. First boil the burdock seeds for 15 minutes, remove the burdock seeds and save the juice for later use. Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, add the mint after 10 minutes. When the porridge is almost done, add the burdock juice and cook for 5 minutes.

Efficacy: dispel wind and cold, warm the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

3. Mustard greens and ginger soup is good for dispelling cold and relieving cough

Preparation method: 80 grams of fresh mustard greens, 10 grams of fresh ginger, and a little salt. Wash the mustard greens and cut them into small pieces. Slice the ginger. Add four bowls of water and fry until two bowls are left. Season with salt. Take twice a day, and use for 3 days to see the effect.

Efficacy: Clears lungs and relieves cough, dispels wind and cold. Treats wind-cold cough, accompanied by headache, nasal congestion, sore limbs, etc.

4. Steamed garlic water is good for dispelling cold and relieving cough

Method: Take 7 to 10 cloves of garlic (3 to 5 cloves for children), smash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put in a piece of rock sugar, cover the bowl, put it in a pot to steam, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 15 minutes over low heat. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot, drink it when it is relatively warm. You don’t have to eat the garlic. Drink it 2 to 3 times a day, half a bowl each time.

Efficacy: Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It is very effective in treating cold coughs and kidney deficiency coughs. If consumed together with warm foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, and nourish the kidneys and lungs, the symptoms can be quickly controlled.

5. Drink winter flower aster green tea to dispel cold and relieve cough

Preparation method: 10 grams of coltsfoot, 1 gram of green tea, 6 grams of aster, and 5 grams of roasted licorice. Put the above medicines into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil, simmer for 10 minutes and filter the juice. Add appropriate amount of honey and take once a day.

Efficacy: It has the effect of warming the lungs and relieving cough, and is suitable for tuberculosis and asthma cough.

6. Brown sugar, ginger and jujube soup is good for dispelling cold and relieving cough

Preparation method: 30 grams of brown sugar, 15 grams of fresh ginger, and 30 grams of red dates. Boil three bowls of water until half of the liquid is boiled, drink it all at once, and you will be cured when you start sweating slightly.

Efficacy: dispel wind and cold, treat cold and cough, stomach cold and stabbing pain, postpartum cold diarrhea, aversion to yin, etc.

7. Eat white radish and honey to dispel cold and relieve cough

Preparation method: 1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, and 2 grams of ephedra. Wash the radish, slice it, put it in a bowl, pour in honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc., steam it for half an hour, and drink it while it is hot. You will recover when you sweat in bed.