A child’s cough can be a great headache and worry for mothers. Many of my patients and friends talk about their children’s coughs with great distress. This is because they have to take their children to get a hangnail, and the hangnail itself takes a toll on the child’s body.
I have recently found some dietary and external treatments for pediatric cough in my experience pocket, and after some clinical practice and adding some of my own treatments, I have had good results, and have found that some of the parties used by adults when they have a cough also work well, many better than taking antibiotics, so I recommend them to everyone. Pediatric cough and massageCough is only a symptom for Western medicine. Many diseases, such as respiratory infections, bronchial dilatation, pneumonia, and pharyngitis, may have coughing, and treatment is mainly anti-inflammatory and cough suppressant. In Chinese medicine, although coughing is one of the main symptoms of lung diseases, it has been said since ancient times that “all five viscera and six internal organs cause coughing, not only the lungs”, pointing out that coughing is not only a manifestation of lung diseases, but can also occur when other internal organs are affected by diseases involving the lungs.
The causes of coughing are external coughs and internal coughs. External coughs are mostly caused by wind, cold, heat and dryness, and are characterized by rapid onset and short duration, and are often complicated by colds; internal coughs are distinguished by spleen deficiency, lung deficiency and kidney deficiency. It is characterized by a slow onset, a long duration and recurrent attacks.
However, children’s coughs are more severe than adults’ coughs, and most of them cough more than once. It is uncomfortable for parents to see their children coughing incessantly, so whenever they have a cough, they think of going to the doctor, taking medicine, giving injections and hanging water. When the resistance is poor, children are more likely to catch colds and coughs, so these children are caught in a vicious circle, and they tend to grow thin and small, with yellow fistulas, and in some cases, asthma. Therefore, when a child has a cough, parents should first stabilize and observe the nature of the cough, any complications and systemic symptoms, and then decide whether to seek medical attention immediately.
I. Cases of coughing that require urgent medical attention
If a child suddenly coughs very badly and has difficulty breathing, there may be a foreign body blocking the airway. Things that can be easily swallowed by mistake include peanuts, pencil sets, pills, buttons, coins, candy, etc. If the child can be found immediately and first aid measures are taken to remove it, it is fine.
2, high fever, coughing, wheezing with breathing difficulties, need to be immediately sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
3.Infants are prone to capillary bronchitis, a form of pneumonia, when the child looks bad, often purple, or has increased breathing, shoulder lift breathing, plus the lower part of the chest wall depression during inhalation, should also be sent to the hospital promptly for treatment. There are two types of coughs: external cough and internal cough, and external cough is divided into wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough, and different types of coughs are completely different in terms of medication and dietary treatment. If the tongue is white, just like snow in winter, it means that the child is cold and coughing with thin, white sticky phlegm and a stuffy, runny nose, then the child should eat some warm, phlegm-relieving foods to stop the cough. If the child’s tongue is yellow and red, it means that the child’s internal heat is greater, and the coughing phlegm is yellow and thick, not easy to cough up, and there is sore throat, so you should eat foods that clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and stop coughing. Most internal coughs are long, recurrent coughs. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their children foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidneys, and replenish lung qi in the following ways: Wind-cold cough
1. Ginger + brown sugar + garlic: When a child has a wind-cold cough, drinking warm ginger brown sugar water can play a good therapeutic role. If the child also has a cough, you can add 2-3 cloves of garlic to the ginger brown sugar water and cook it together, with a low fire for 10 minutes to cook off the spicy smell of garlic so that the child will drink it.
2. Steamed garlic water: take 2-3 cloves of garlic, pat it, put it in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put a grain of rock sugar, add a lid on the bowl, put it in a pot to steam, boil it on high heat and change it to low heat for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot and is still relatively warm, feed it to the child, the garlic can not be eaten, generally 2-3 times a day, once a small half bowl. If the child is 5-6 years old, the head of garlic can be put 4-5 cloves, adults can be used 7-8 cloves, garlic is warm, into the spleen, stomach and lung meridian, the treatment of cold cough, kidney deficiency cough effect is very good, and convenient and simple, the child is also willing to drink.
3. Baked oranges: Bake the oranges directly on a small fire and keep turning them until the orange peel is black and hot air comes out from the orange, put them for a while, don’t get too hot, peel off the baked black orange peel and let the child eat the warm orange cloves inside. It is best to eat it together with garlic water 2-3 times a day. Orange is warm in nature and has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, especially the outer red part of the orange peel, also known as orange red, when wind-cold cough and more phlegm, it is white thin sticky phlegm, after eating roasted orange, the amount of phlegm will be significantly reduced, the cough suppressing effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat.
4, sesame oil and ginger scrambled eggs: a small spoon of sesame oil into the wok, the oil is hot, put the ginger, slightly in the oil over, then pour in an egg scrambled well, the child before bedtime to eat while hot, do not burn the child, the child wind-cold cough and deficiency cough, give the child to eat once a night, adhere to eat a few days, you can see the obvious results.
5, pear + pepper + rock sugar: a pear, wash, cut by the handle cross-section, scoop out the middle core, put 20 pepper, 2 rock sugar, put the upper part of the pear spell well, put it into a bowl, steam on the pot for about half an hour, a pear can be divided into two times to finish. Steamed pepper and rock sugar pear is very effective for treating wind-cold cough, but some children do not want to eat the taste of pepper, parents can choose their own.
The above are dietary remedies for treating wind-cold cough. While parents use these methods to cure the disease, they should also pay attention to the following cold foods children cannot eat: mung beans, crabs, mussels, snails, snails, snails, {cakes, {cakes, grapefruit, bananas, kiwi, sugar cane, watermelon, melon, bitter melon, water chestnuts, cicely mushrooms, kelp, nori, raw radish, eggplant, rutabaga, lotus root, winter melon, loofah, groundnut, etc. These cold Avoid eating these cold foods when your child has a cold or cough. Wind-heat cough
1, pear + rock sugar + Chuanbei: pear washed, cut crosswise by the handle, dig out the middle core, put 2-3 rock sugar, 5-6 grains of Chuanbei, Chuanbei should be cracked into the end, the upper part of the pear spell good, can also be inserted into a toothpick tight, put into a bowl, steam on the pot for about 30 minutes can be, divided into 2 times for the child to eat, this party has moisten the lungs, cough, phlegm, is a very popular treatment of wind-heat cough recipe, some parents of children with a cough to do for the child. Some parents make this recipe for their children as soon as they have a cough, and sometimes it works, but sometimes the more the child eats, the worse the cough gets, so parents must pay attention to the fact that not all coughs can be treated with this method. There are also various anti-inflammatory drugs and most cough suppressants that are effective in treating wind-heat coughs, so among the many causes of coughs, wind-heat coughs are the easiest to treat. Nowadays, children are generally greedy for cold, hot with air conditioning, eating cold fruits and drinking cold drinks all year round, so there are significantly fewer children with wind-heat coughs. Parents should pay attention to the child’s tongue when choosing a recipe, if the wind-cold cough, the tongue is white, and Chuanbei bitter, cold, eat this formula, is a cold disease to cold medicine treatment, especially as snow on top of frost, counterproductive.
2, boiled radish water: white radish washed, cut 4-5 thin slices, put into a small pot, then add half a bowl of water, put on the fire and boil, then change the fire to a small boil for 5 minutes, turn off the fire, and so the water is not hot, warm to the child to drink, wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, dry cough with little phlegm effect is good, especially for babies within 2 years of age, on a single boiled white radish water for children to drink, it can play a smooth, phlegm, cough, eliminating food, stomach, and Clear heat, the role of the body, you can drink 2-3 times a day.
3, you can also give children to eat the following foods
① pear: cold, can clear heat, phlegm, cough, but the child can only eat a pear at a time, because the pear nature of the cold, eat more children will be uncomfortable stomach.
②Watermelon: cold in nature, in summer children have wind-heat cough, you can give your child more watermelon, watermelon can cure all heat.
③Pequat: cool in nature, can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and stop coughing, suitable for children with hot cough and yellow pus phlegm.
④ Water chestnut: cold in nature, parents can have 2-3 water chestnuts peeled, cut into thin slices, put into a pot, add a bowl of water and boil on the fire for 5 minutes. Give your child water chestnut water to dissolve phlegm and clear heat, and it works well for those with hot coughs that spit out pus and phlegm.
⑤ You can also give your child simmered soup with winter melon, fried loofah, fried lotus root and fried bitter melon, which can also help to eliminate internal heat and fire and stop coughing. When a child has a wind-heat cough, spicy, fire-prone foods should not be eaten, such as mutton, dog meat, oyster chicken, silkworm pupae, fish, shrimp, dates, cinnamon garden meat, lychees, walnuts, cherries, and chili peppers, which should be prohibited.
Internal coughs are those chronic coughs that recur over a long period of time, or those caused by a cold or fever, where the symptoms of the cold or fever have disappeared, but the cough is still not good and cannot be stopped despite the use of various anti-inflammatory drugs and cough suppressants. Children with recurrent coughs, who use a lot of anti-inflammatory and cough medicine, have a poor appetite and no appetite. The tongue is also almost always white, so parents should first regulate the child’s spleen and stomach, along with foods that nourish the kidneys, lungs and blood to improve the child’s health. The specific practices are as follows.
1. The previously described dietary remedies for wind-cold cough are all suitable for children with internal coughs, while dietary remedies for wind-heat coughs should be avoided for children with prolonged coughs.
2. Boil yam porridge: take a section of yam, peel it, section it into small pieces, put it into a food grinder, add half a bowl of water, process the yam into a thin paste, pour it into a small pot, put it on the fire, stir it while burning to prevent it from gumming up the bottom of the pot, and when the yam is boiling and bubbling, turn off the fire. It is best to feed it to your child on an empty stomach. A good bowl of yam porridge can be fed to your child in 2-3 servings. Yam strengthens the stomach, tonifies lung qi, benefits kidney essence, nourishes and strengthens, and is suitable for deficiency of spleen and stomach qi and cough and asthma due to deficiency of lung and kidney. However, the amylase contained in yam, also known as digestive elements, can be broken down into protein and carbohydrates, so it has a nourishing effect. This amylase is afraid of high heat, and its efficacy can be lost when it is decocted for a long time in persistent high heat. Therefore, when decocting, it should not be too long. The yam porridge processed using this method is most suitable for infants and young children, not only to stop coughing and cure asthma, but also for children’s anorexia, excessive sweating, drooling, gas deficiency and timidity, etc. It also has a good therapeutic effect.
3, red dates + white fruit: This recipe is suitable for children over 2 years old. Take 3 red dates, 3 white fruit shelled, put them in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, put it on the fire and boil it for 10 minutes on medium heat. Let your child eat red dates and white fruits and drink water once a day, preferably every night before bedtime. Red dates are warm, beneficial to the qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, white fruits are calm and astringent to the lung, fixed cough and asthma, and has the effect of kidney consolidation, so for some long cough, repeated colds, fever, cough children parents give their children every night to eat red dates and white fruits soup effect is very obvious. Can also treat enuresis at the same time, but the amount of red dates and white fruit must be mastered, limited to 3, the amount of more children are prone to fire, gas stagnation.
4, walnuts + sesame seeds + dates + honey or wine: walnuts half a catty, black sesame seeds 2 two, red dates half a catty, walnuts and black sesame seeds can be put into the crusher crushed, red dates to the core chopped, the three into a large bowl stir evenly, then put a rice spoon of honey (honey in summer, yellow wine in winter), 3 rice spoons of water, because honey is more difficult to stir evenly, so first the honey and water on the stove heat, honey melted When the honey has melted, pour it into the crushed walnuts, black sesame seeds and red dates while it is still hot, stir well with chopsticks, add a lid to a large bowl, then put it into a large pot and steam it for 40 minutes on high heat. Give your child a spoonful every morning and evening. Walnuts are warm in nature and have the effect of tonifying the qi and benefiting the kidneys, moistening the intestines and tonifying the kidneys, astringing the lungs and fixing asthma, and relieving cough and phlegm. These three common tonic together can play a role in nourishing blood, kidney, regulating the spleen and stomach, and moistening the intestines, plus the role of honey in nourishing deficiency and moistening dryness, which can make this formula tonic but not dry. This recipe can not only cure pediatric prolonged cough, bronchitis and asthma, but also has a very good therapeutic effect on pediatric constipation. At the same time, this recipe can be consumed by children for years, which has a very good effect on strengthening their physique, and those parents who are keen on giving their children tonic food may want to do it themselves. The main massage for pediatric cough is that parents often help their children to gently pat their backs, and some children with wind-heat cough with tonsillitis, parents then cooperate with the foot massage, the effect will be better.
1. Patting the back. Infants and toddlers do not spit up, and even if phlegm has been coughed up they will only swallow it instead, swallowing it down into their stomachs. When a violent cough causes vomiting, you can often see a lot of sputum mixed in the vomit, if the sputum is too sticky is not easy to cough up, especially some weak children or seriously ill children, because of physical weakness, coughing weakness, can not cough up the sputum, parents in the child cough, pick up the child, with empty palms gently pat the child’s back, up, down, left, right are patted to. If the child coughs when a certain part is patted, it means that the child’s phlegm accumulates here and should be focused on patting, mostly in the area under the child’s shoulder blades, which is the bottom of the lungs where phlegm tends to accumulate, and as long as there is phlegm stimulation, the child will cough, and once the phlegm is discharged, the cough will be temporarily relieved. Therefore, patting the back can play the role of broadening the chest and promoting the discharge of phlegm. Parents must pat their children’s backs regularly to help them cough up phlegm, preferably when they first wake up during the day, and also when they are about to go to sleep, so that they can cough up phlegm and facilitate sleep.
2. For children with wind-heat coughs, accompanied by sore throat and tonsillitis, you can use foot massage, which can also play a therapeutic role. The specific practices are.
① rub the heart of the child’s feet, one foot rubbed 30 times, up and down back and forth.
② Each toe is massaged up and down 20-40 times.
③ focus on massaging the back of the feet (not the soles of the feet, both sides of the root of the big toe, this part is the reflex zone of the tonsils, as long as the tonsils are inflamed, this part will be very painful, so parents can easily find, left and right big toe massage, a toe massage for 5 minutes, two big toe massage for a total of 10 minutes.) After focusing on the tonsil reflex zone, the child’s sore throat will be significantly reduced, after the massage to give the child to drink more warm water, you can also drink a little salt put light salt water, a day adhere to the child massage twice, and then with food therapy, your child’s illness will soon be cured.