How to manage recurrent cough and coldness

  First, why are children so afraid of cold? Why is it so easy to get sick?  Let’s look at the disease characteristics of these two children, both of whom have recurrent illnesses. The first child has a recurrent cough and the second child has asthma and allergic rhinitis, but the physical conditions of these two children are very similar. Once the disease develops, it will be prolonged and will never end, regardless of the severity of the disease. Usually, they sweat a lot and get cold easily. Also, these children always feel tired and their physical strength is obviously not as strong as normal children. Why are children easily afraid of cold? Why do they get cold so easily? The essence of the fear of cold is that the body’s own yang energy is insufficient, which is also known as Yang deficiency. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, the human body is not separated from qi, blood, yin and yang. Adequate yang qi is necessary to be able to resist the invasion of external evil. You see, those children who have sufficient yang energy, high energy, and not too sick. Even if it is not a little cold, it is a sneeze on the line, will not be easy to get sick, even if it is a little sick, sleep on it, there is a strong self-healing ability. The situation of these children who are physically weak, usually sweaty, and obviously afraid of cold is the opposite, as long as the parents are a little careless, they will get cold, and a cold is definitely going to be a disease, a disease can be uncontrollable, either hanging or hospitalized.  Second, for Yang deficiency, Chinese medicine can be adjusted?  The medicinal properties of Chinese medicine are mainly divided into cold, hot, warm and cool, among which warm medicines can increase the body’s yang energy. There are many varieties of warm medicines, which can often be seen in our daily life, such as ginger, onion, garlic, chili, pepper, star anise, etc.  In the previous two cases, we can see that the child’s deficiency cold is mainly reflected in the lung meridian. It is characterized by the child’s fear of cold, extreme sensitivity to cold, and susceptibility to diseases of the lung meridian, such as cough, asthma, rhinitis, etc. Therefore, when regulating, they should also warm up the lung meridian and use more warming medicines for the lung meridian. On the one hand, to improve the child’s cold tolerance, on the other hand, to help the child collect sweat, if the child’s sweat is normal, the body will not be so weak. When the child’s ability to withstand cold increases, he or she will be less likely to catch a cold. In this way, the child will not be so sick.  Third, how long does it take to regulate?  Children with frequent illnesses must have an imbalance of yin and yang in their bodies. Among them, the main problem of children with deficient cold constitution is the lack of yang energy, and the reasons for this lack of yang energy are various. It may be a congenital deficiency, such as that child who was born prematurely. It may also be acquired damage, and every time there is an attack, it may injure the yang energy, as in the previous three cases, none of them had repeated attacks. There is also the drug injury. As the saying goes, “medicine is three parts poison”, “there is sickness and sickness suffer, no patient suffer”, often use drugs, especially excessive use of drugs, the damage to the human body is not in doubt, as the saying goes, “those who do not use drugs, often get Chinese medicine “. It is absolutely impossible to fully recover from the deficiency of Yang Qi formed over time. Therefore, it still takes some time to regulate Yang energy. Generally speaking, it takes at least a month and a half.  Of course, the conditioning should be systemic, not just tonic Yang Qi. While tonifying Yang Qi, we also need to simultaneously regulate the child’s spleen and stomach, adjust the child’s sleep, and guide the parents in reasonable feeding. Only when the spleen and stomach are also strong and the yang energy is sufficient can the physique be enhanced and the health condition be guaranteed.  Fourth, should antibiotics be used for children with recurrent coughs Most of the time they should not be used. When you look at children like this, their infection process has a strong regularity. First they get cold, then they get runny, then they cough and it doesn’t heal over and over again. This process should be a viral infection, and if it is a viral infection, antibiotics are useless. Parents are advised to reduce the use of antibiotics as much as possible. Whether intravenous, or oral, those that should not be used, must be used sparingly or not. Long-term unreasonable use of antibiotics must be damaging to the body and should be avoided.  The actual fact is that you will find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on this. The reason for this is poor health, poor health is not well-conditioned, is repeatedly morbid. The effective goal of the treatment of the disease must be a long-term cure.