Children with colds and coughs should eat a light diet. Avoid fried food, dry food and spicy food. Drinking congee is a good choice, it is best to eat green vegetables porridge or lean meat porridge can also be. Because vegetables and lean meat porridge is easier to digest and absorb, it is a good staple food for children with colds and coughs. Try to avoid seafood porridge or fish and shrimp porridge, because the child during the cold and cough itself for high protein food digestion energy will be weaker. Some children who have allergies may be allergic to the seafood in seafood porridge, which may aggravate their cough. So eat vegetables porridge or pumpkin porridge and so on are OK.