Autumn cough in children is mostly an external cough. Because of the sudden change in temperature in autumn, there is a big difference in temperature between daytime, with cool mornings and evenings and high temperatures at noon. When children play with heat, if they do not pay attention to timely increase or decrease their clothes, they can easily catch cold and develop diseases such as cold, bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma, all of which can trigger a cough. In addition, the climate is dry in autumn, especially in the northern part of China. During this period, parents may find that their children have symptoms of “autumn dryness” such as dry mouth, dry throat, sore throat, dry cough, dry skin, short urine and dry stools, all of which are caused by “dryness” that damages the body’s yin and fluids. In autumn, plant pollen from nature is dispersed in the air, which can easily trigger asthma attacks in children with allergies, which also manifest as frequent coughing. Therefore, most coughs in children in autumn are mainly dry coughs. Typical manifestations: According to Chinese medicine, autumn dryness is divided into two types: warm dryness and cool dryness. Warm dry coughs tend to occur in early autumn, while cool dry coughs tend to occur in late autumn. Of course, the change between warm and cool autumn dryness is also related to the child’s constitution and organism response. The common symptoms include dry cough without sputum, or a small amount of sticky sputum that cannot be easily expelled, or even blood in the sputum, a sore throat, dry skin and nose and mouth, thirst and irritability, a red tongue with a thin yellow and dry coating. At the first onset, there may also be fever and a slight fear of cold. In contrast, cool cough is a dry and cold type, with initial fear of cold, mild fever, headache and nasal congestion, itchy or dry sore throat, cough, unpleasant phlegm, dry mouth and lips, and a thin, white and dry tongue coating. Medication guidance: Children with autumn cough can take Chinese medicines to moisten the lungs and relieve cough, such as Chuanbei Loquat Paste, Niancian Loquat Paste, and Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lung Granules, etc. However, Chinese medicine is about individualized treatment, and the medication should vary from person to person and from disease to disease, and when autumn cough is severe, it is better to receive soup therapy. Food therapy formula: 1, five juice drink: pear juice, water chestnut juice, fresh rutabaga juice, maitake juice, lotus root juice and mix well, let the child serve cold. 2, almond stew snow pear: sweet almond 15g, peeled and broken, snow pear 1 washed, with skin sliced, put the same bowl, add 20g of rock sugar and water, placed in a pot with a lid and stewed l hours can be taken. Each morning and evening once a day, for 3 to 5 days. 3, Chuanbei stewed Sydney: take a Sydney washed, cut open crosswise, scoop out the core, put in Chuanbei end 6g, then put the two flaps together with a toothpick fixed, put in a bowl with rock sugar 20g and water appropriate amount, stewed in water for 1 hour can be taken. Once a day, for 3-5 days 4, lily porridge: 30 grams of lily, 100 grams of round-grained rice, wash and boil porridge with water, add the right amount of rock sugar when the porridge is ready. Eat in the morning and evening. Doctor’s tips: 1. When children suffer from autumn cough, they can drink more water, soy milk and milk, and eat more carrots, water chestnuts, tomatoes, tofu, silver fungus, pears, lotus roots, bananas and other vegetables and fruits that moisten the lungs and produce body fluid, nourish Yin and clear dryness. 2, suffering from autumn cough diet should be contraindicated. (1) Cold food: It is not advisable to eat cold drinks or frozen beverages when coughing, as Chinese medicine believes that “cold forms and cold drinks hurt the lungs”, which means that cold bodies or cold food can hurt the human lungs and aggravate the cough. In addition, most children have a weak spleen and stomach, so eating too much cold food can injure the spleen and stomach, resulting in a decrease in spleen and stomach function, gathering dampness and producing phlegm, leading to a cough with phlegm. (2) Tonic products: Many parents give their weak children some tonic products, but they should stop taking them when the child’s cough has not yet healed, so as not to make the cough difficult to heal. In addition, for a warm dry cough, only clear tonic should be used; for a cool dry cough in late autumn and winter, only warm tonic should be used. (3) Fishy shrimps and crabs: People generally know that coughs need to avoid “hairy things” and should not eat seafood and fishy things. The fishy smell can stimulate the respiratory tract and fish and shrimp foods can easily cause protein allergies, which can aggravate a child’s cough. 3. Parents need to be reminded that dietary therapy and cough suppressants are limited to health care, but coughs have a variety of causes.