Cough is the most common condition of the pediatric respiratory system, and almost all pulmonary diseases have coughing symptoms, making it an “earthquake” in the body. According to Chinese medicine, cough in children is caused by the lungs. The main reasons why children are prone to cough are the delicate lungs, which are often deficient, and the internal deficiencies, such as the weakness of the body surface and the power to protect against evil. In clinical practice, we often see many children who are unable to adapt to sudden changes in climate and have recurrent colds and coughs. These children have poor adaptability to the external environment and weak resistance, and are particularly susceptible to infection by various pathogenic factors. In addition to the fact that children are in the immature stage of growth and development, most of these children have a preference for sweet and greasy food, and the room temperature is too warm, or too delicate, fur clothes and duck quilts, which affects the child’s ability to dissipate heat on its own, and the formation of the lung and stomach contains heat, and such children are prone to irritability and crying, cheeks Such children are prone to irritability and crying, cheeks are red, and sleep is restless. If the child gets wind and cold at night, he or she will have fever, runny nose, cough, sore throat, and phlegm that cannot be easily coughed out. Some children, due to improper diet and excessive consumption of cold drinks and ice, gradually develop anorexia nervosa, which is a cold injury to the spleen. Due to long-term loss of appetite, the spleen and stomach weakness, digestion and absorption function is weakened, nutrition can not meet the needs of the body, and make resistance to decline, at this time, if the wind and cold external evil, easy to cause colds. The disease recurs, often with stuffy nose and runny nose and cough with phlegm. Treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs, cough and phlegm medicine, the effect is not good, and therefore the course of the disease is prolonged. As you can see, it is very important for parents to feed their children reasonably. For pediatric cold and cough, parents are asked to pay attention to the following points: First of all, during the flu epidemic season, children with fever and cold and cough should have a longer course of illness and be given medication and care at home according to the doctor’s instructions after consultation and treatment. Do not go to the hospital repeatedly because your child’s fever does not go away, and increase the chances of repeated infections. Second, the initial stage of the child’s cold, the condition is not heavy, you can first eat some pediatric cold medicine; fever up to 38.5 ℃ or more, promptly eat antipyretic drugs, try to quiet rest, drink more boiled water. When the condition worsens, go to the hospital in time to seek treatment, then it is not appropriate to deal with their own, especially do not just take adult drugs. In addition, parental care of the child is very important, the child can not sleep without forcing, can sit and play. Children with vomiting and diarrhea should be given a liquid diet on the first day. For children with general fever and cough, eat a tasty, light and nutritious diet. In winter, make sure to give a hot diet, such as noodles and soup. Fever and sweating consume a lot of body fluids, so drink more water and juice and eat more fruit. Do not take a bath when your child is sick, because bathing will make the blood circulation strong, which is not good for quiet and will get cold again. Children with a lot of phlegm do increase secretions due to bathing, but only after a week of illness, when they have a slight cough in the morning, their appetite is good, they can play, and they do not have a fever, they can take a bath before going to sleep. If you sleep well, you can take a bath every other day afterwards. It is recommended to try the method of dietary therapy Folk commonly used pear and rock sugar decoction for cough are the following: one is pear plus almond plus rock sugar decoction for wind-heat cough; one is pear plus orange peel plus white radish plus brown sugar decoction for wind-cold cough; one is pear plus Chuanbei plus rock sugar decoction for dry cough, prolonged cough, sputum less sick children, not applicable to other types of children, avoid cut. All have certain curative effect. If you do not know Chinese medicine to identify the evidence or do not consult a Chinese medicine doctor, please do not easily pay to try, because I met a lot of parents are anxious to try anything, to bring some difficulties to Chinese medicine treatment.