As we enter autumn, the temperature difference between morning and evening becomes bigger. Due to the change of weather, more children suffer from colds and coughs in the pediatric clinics of hospitals, and some children with weakened constitution are not well after their cold symptoms are relieved, and they can hear a few coughs from time to time, and their coughs will get worse when they blow some cool wind or get wet. As the weather is dry in autumn, you should always give your children some dry food, and weaker children should pay more attention to regulating their spleen and stomach. Eat seasonal fruits to moisten the lungs The temperature difference between morning and evening in autumn is getting bigger and the weather is getting cooler. Children with a weak spleen and stomach and internal heat can easily catch a cold and are prone to recurrence. In early autumn, the heat is dry and dryness tends to hurt Yin, and Yin deficiency produces internal heat. We recommend a recipe to clear the lungs and moisten dryness, prevent cold and cough: red pear, white radish in the right amount, three slices of ginger, put them together and boil water, and then add the right amount of brown sugar after the pear and radish are cooked. In addition, you can also eat raw pears and white radish, which have the effect of clearing heat and phlegm and moistening dryness, but not in excess. Also can often eat some lotus root, water chestnuts, etc. Eliminate internal heat to prevent illness before it happens The accumulation of internal heat caused by bad eating habits is an important reason why children are prone to coughs that do not heal. Balanced nutrition
Parents should control their children’s mouths, pay attention to balanced nutrition, make sure they drink more water, eat meals on time, eat more easily digestible food, and eat less fried food, sweetened food or snacks such as puffed food. In addition, let the child to strengthen physical exercise, to develop a good rest time, to ensure that the daily sufficient sleep, so as to improve the body resistance. Some parents are afraid of their children’s food, so that children eat hawthorn tablets, sweet and sour food children love to eat, but acidic food if eaten too much easily cause internal heat accumulation, thus laying a hidden worry for upper respiratory tract infections. Some parents think it is good for children to eat more, but in fact, too much food for children can easily cause internal heat, but also damage the spleen and stomach to receive, transport and transformation functions, long-term spleen and stomach disorders, resistance will be greatly weakened. Therefore, it is best for children to eat seven percent full. Don’t eat an hour before going to bed There are many parents because children are partial, picky eaters or eat less, always give children extra meals at night, or drink milk before going to bed, this practice is very inappropriate after the child is one year old. Even if you add a meal at night, you should also eat an hour before bedtime. Otherwise, it is easy to cause food accumulation and internal heat. The Chinese medicine believes that “the spleen is strong in all seasons and is not subject to evil”. For children with a weak spleen and stomach who are always prone to colds, timely adjustment of the spleen and stomach after autumn can effectively prevent respiratory and gastrointestinal system diseases, and also help children to spend the winter safely and reduce the occurrence of various common winter diseases. How to regulate the spleen and stomach? Avoid excessive high-protein, high-fat foods in your diet, and eat regularly so as not to increase the burden on the stomach and intestines; reduce the intake of cold drinks, cold milk and cold foods; instead, children should also gradually develop the habit of eating hot meals; “stomach in nourishment and not in treatment”, to ensure that children have a meal a day to drink porridge (rice porridge, millet porridge, corn porridge can be), and ensure that children have a meal to drink. The porridge can be cooked sticky to achieve the purpose of nourishing the stomach; in addition, children are pure Yang body, do not advocate in the autumn to supplement Yang, such as eating more lamb, sea cucumber, etc. to avoid internal heat, dry stools, tonsillitis and other symptoms.