Children with body heat can take bitter melon, celery, watermelon, snails and other foods with heat-clearing effect according to the specific type of evidence.
1. Bitter melon: has the effect of removing heat, clearing the eyes, detoxification. It is used for summer heat and thirst, eye redness and swelling pain, sores, carbuncles and poisons, and sunstroke. Yang Qi deficiency is prohibited.
2. Celery: It has the functions of calming the liver, clearing heat, dispelling wind, inducing diuresis, stopping bleeding and detoxifying. Used for hypertension caused by headache, dizziness, jaundice, edema, urination hot and astringent unfavorable, pediatric vomiting and diarrhea, scrofula (mainly refers to the neck lymph node tuberculosis), mumps and so on. Chronic diarrhea should not eat.
3. Watermelon: has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and generating fluids, diuretic. It is used for thirst and heat (irritability and sultriness), edema, dysuria (unsmooth urination), mouth sores, etc. It is not recommended for people with cold spleen and stomach. People with cold spleen and stomach should not eat.
4. snail: has the effect of clearing heat, water, thirst, detoxification. Used for edema, internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids swelling and pain.
In addition, children with body heat can also eat some vegetables with more fiber, such as lily root, bitter greens, fern, cabbage, tomato, winter melon and so on. Fruits should eat some bananas, pears, mulberries, sugar cane and so on. Meat can eat some black fish, river crabs and so on. Diet should be lighter and balanced nutrition.
Children’s body heat should be first identified, distinguish which organs are mainly heat, and then treated according to the specific conditions. Diet may play a limited role, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional physician treatment, so as not to delay the condition.