Some children cough for weeks at a time, take some medicine to stop coughing, then stop for two days and start coughing again. And they always cough at night or in the early hours of the morning. In some cases, they cough and vomit at the same time, spitting out less digestible food or sticky phlegm.
I. What is wrong with these children?
At this time, the mother should be careful because the child may be coughing due to food accumulation. Then the mother should be surprised to know that coughing is caused by food stagnation? Of course, coughing with food accumulation is due to malfunction of the spleen and lungs. “The spleen is the source of phlegm production,
The lungs are the reservoir of phlegm”. When there is a problem with the spleen, phlegm will be produced. The spleen is also the mother of the lungs, so if the mother is sick, it will of course affect the child’s health and will of course cause a cough. And if you don’t solve the problem of the spleen, you can’t stop the cough.
How can I prevent my baby from accumulating food?
Second, what are the symptoms of food accumulation cough?
Dry cough, or phlegm, bloating, bad breath, heat in the hands and feet, dry and constipated stools or more frequent stools, sour and smelly stools, thick yellow tongue coating, etc.
3. What are the causes of food cough?
Improper feeding and weakness of the spleen and stomach. Children’s digestive functions are not well developed and they need to eat light, easily digestible food, but they are given too much meat, fish, eggs and milk, or they overeat and drink, or eat too much stimulating food,
This can cause the spleen and stomach to be injured by the diet and not digested, resulting in food accumulation.
How to prevent coughing with food stagnation?
Mothers who take care of their children should pay attention to a light diet in their daily life, control the amount of food they eat, and let their children move more, so that food accumulation will not occur easily. Pay more attention to your child’s stool, whether it is dry or sour, whether the tongue is yellow and thick, whether there is white ballast or small white bubbles at the corners of the lips and mouth, whether the breath is heavy, etc., to find out in time whether your child has accumulated food and fire, and if these conditions are found, give your child some food therapy to help digestion in time, or give your child massage as well.
If you find these conditions, you can give your child some dietary remedies to help digestion, or you can give your child massage to clear the food accumulation in the body, so that it will not cause frequent colds and coughs.
Five, the food accumulation cough massage methods
1, clockwise abdominal massage for 3 minutes
The abdomen is the part of the small intestine and large intestine, so rubbing the belly clockwise is the simplest and most effective way to eliminate food stagnation and bloating. Just knead for 3 minutes.
2, rubbing the middle epigastric 3 minutes
It is very easy to find the point in the child’s belly button directly above the 5 fingers (the child’s 5 fingers together is). This point can not only eliminate food accumulation, but also has the effect of “stopping rebellion”, treating vomiting and regurgitation, as mentioned above, food cough is mainly related to the rebellion of stomach gas during food accumulation. Therefore, pressing this point can also help eliminate cough.
3. Tonic spleen meridian 300 times
Children’s spleen is often weak, so it is necessary to supplement the spleen meridian for children.
4.Clear the large intestine 300 times
The lungs and the large intestine are on the same level, so clear the large intestine, and when the large intestine is open, the lung meridian will be open, which will help to stop the cough. Many children in the clinic have a cough that disappears after using medicine to clear the bowels. Push from the root of the finger to the tip of the finger will do.
5. 300 times to carry the internal bagua
The internal eight trigrams also have the effect of eliminating hunger, lowering stomach rebellion, and raising the clear and lowering the turbidity.
6, push the lung meridian 300 times
In the case of the lung meridian, parents should see whether the child has heat or cold in the lung meridian, and if there is heat, then clear the lung meridian, and if there is cold, then supplement the lung meridian. Lung meridian points are easy to find, ring finger, from the root to the tip of the finger is. From the root of the finger to the tip of the finger is clear, and vice versa is tonic.
Warmly remind parents: children’s cough, the above pediatric massage, food therapy is very helpful to the recovery of the disease. But the prerequisite is that there are no problems with the child’s lungs and bronchial tubes. Parents had better take their children to a professional pediatrician to listen and see if there are any rhotic sounds on the lungs, especially in small children.