Dietary attention.
1, food should be thin, rotten, light.
Cold patients are often affected by the function of the spleen and stomach, so it is appropriate to eat easy to digest and absorb the thin, light food, such as should eat more thin rice, rotten noodles, egg soup, lotus root powder, almond powder, etc., to reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach.
2, eat more vegetables, fruits.
Vegetables and fruits should be used as appropriate, such as ginger, white onion, cilantro for dispersing wind and cold commonly used; oilseed rape, amaranth, spinach, etc. is suitable for wind-heat evidence; wild rice, watermelon, winter melon, loofah, cucumber, etc. is good for clearing heat and dampness; after the fever has subsided, it is appropriate to eat more tomatoes, lotus root, citrus, apple, apricot, loquat, sugar cane, water chestnut, etc. to benefit the qi and produce fluid.
3, should not be indiscriminate use of supplements.
After the cold, greasy, fish, meat and other meat and fishy products should not be used or should be used sparingly. If you consider their weakness, they need to be properly supplemented with nutrition and can eat eggs and dairy products.
4.Less food and more meals.
After the baby has a cold, the mother should not force the baby to eat, which will lead to the baby’s gastrointestinal burden is too heavy. Mom can increase the number of times the baby eats, do not force the baby to eat very full every time.
5. Appropriate amount of hydration.
Babies lose more water inside their bodies after a cold, so mothers should pay attention to replenishing water for their babies in a timely and appropriate manner. The mother should not let the baby replenish a large amount of water at one time, but can replenish water in several times. The temperature of the water prepared by the mother for the baby should not be too high, the water temperature should be between 30℃ and 36℃.
Dietary treatment for colds.
1. Three roots cold soup.
3 cabbage roots, 15 grams of rutabaga, 7 onion roots. Decoction: take it once a day for 2-3 days.
2, cabbage, ginger and scallion soup.
120 grams of cabbage, white onion, ginger 10 grams each. Practice: cabbage Sin, chopped, with white onion, ginger together with water decoction and dregs. Dosage: take 2 times a day for 2-3 days.
3.Small onion and ginger soup.
Fine onion (small onion) 2-3, old ginger 1 piece, appropriate amount of brown sugar. Practice: fine shallots, old ginger slices were rinsed clean and placed in a small pot, add water 1 small bowl of frying to half a small bowl, remove the dregs and leave the soup, add a small amount of brown sugar on it. Dosage: drink while hot, a small bowl every night, for 3 days.
A few small single prescriptions for colds.
Traditional Chinese medicine classifies children’s colds into wind-cold colds, wind-heat colds, and qi-vacant colds and other types of evidence.
Wind-cold colds have an acute onset, fever, fear of cold and wind, even chills, no sweat, stuffy nose and clear snot, cough, thin white sputum, headache, body aches and pains, loss of appetite, normal urine and stool, thin white tongue coating. At this time, parents can give their children to eat “pediatric cold and flu punch”, and our hospital “Xuanxiao San”, etc., each time 1/2 ~ 1 bag, 2 to 3 times a day, warm water delivery. If the child’s nose is blocked and there is no sweating, a decoction of one white onion can be used and served with brown sugar.
When a child has a cold, the first thing to pay attention to the child’s diet regimen, this time pay special attention to the diet of some taboos, to avoid eating cold food and cold fruits and melons, such as watermelon, pears, bananas, kiwi, etc.. Also avoid eating sour and astringent foods, such as vinegar, sour cabbage, kimchi and fruits such as hawthorn, plum, sour dates.
You can also make some drinks for your children with the following methods.
1, fresh ginger (with skin) 3-5 slices, brown sugar 10 grams, a bowl of decoction, hot, to see the body sweating slightly as good.
2, glutinous rice 50 grams, white onion (with beard) 3, ginger 5 slices, first cook glutinous rice to be cooked, put the pounded white onion, ginger cooked together for a moment, eat while hot.
3. 10 grams of tempeh, 25 grams of white onion, put the same into a pot of decoction, add a little brown sugar, take it while it is hot and sweat out.
The main manifestations of wind-heat cold are heavy fever in children, but fear of cold and wind is not obvious, the nose is blocked and runny, cough sound is heavy, or there is sticky yellow sputum, headache, thirsty and drinkable, red throat, dry throat or painful itching, dry stool, yellow urine, examination can be seen red and swollen tonsils, congestion of the pharynx, thin yellow or yellow thick tongue coating, red tongue texture, floating and fast pulse. At this time, you can give the child “cold and fever clearing punch” and our hospital’s “detoxification san”, “da yuan san” and so on. Take 1/2 to 1 sachet per dose, 2 to 3 times a day, or take 10 to 15 ml of “Oral Liquid for Children with Fever”, 3 times a day.
Children suffering from wind-heat cold should pay attention to firstly avoid eating sour and astringent foods, such as vinegar, pickled vegetables, sour grapes, sour pears, sour plums, lemons, hawthorn and persimmons, pomegranates, olives and other vegetables and fruits. Secondly, avoid eating hot and spicy food, such as onion, ginger, chili, garlic, leek, fennel, mustard and other vegetables and longan meat, dates, chestnuts, walnuts, apricots and other fruits. Also avoid eating fatty, sweet and thick (i.e. greasy meat), Chinese medicine said “fever is less healed, eating meat will be back, more food is left (the meaning of the sequelae)”, that is, fever patients or fever is just receding, eating meat, the disease is prolonged, and can make the disease recurring or sequelae, so the cold wind-heat is not exhausted, should not be eaten. When children have wind-heat cold, they should eat cool and light food, such as chrysanthemum, tea, cabbage, white radish, sweet pear and sweet orange. Also you can make some drinks for your child at home to help him/her recover:.
1, chrysanthemum 10 grams, tea leaves a little decoction as tea.
2, cabbage 50 grams, white radish (or carrot) 50 grams, finely shredded boiled soup to drink.
3, sweet pear or sweet orange one at a time (about 200 grams), 1 to 2 per day.
4, one watermelon, remove the skin and melon seeds, grind the flesh of the melon juice, each serving a few spoons, several times a day, served frequently.
5, 100 grams of umeboshi, remove the core, add 500 ml of water, decoct to 200 ml, remove the residue and add 25 grams of sugar, cool and drink.
The above are general evidence of pediatric colds, and are generally more common pediatric colds that can be handled at home. When the child’s condition is more serious, especially in the flu epidemic, it should not be taken lightly and must be taken to the hospital for medical consultation. After a child has a cold, it is important to take better care of the child, drink more water, give an easy-to-digest diet, wash nasal secretions in a timely manner, and keep an eye on changes in the condition.
In order for children not to get a cold or less, parents should know some preventive knowledge about.
1.Keep indoor air circulation, but avoid convective wind blowing directly on the child.
2.Children’s clothing should be increased or decreased in time with the change of climate.
3, to ensure sufficient sleep, infants and children need 12 hours a day, school-age children should have 10 hours of sleep.
4, early to bed and early to rise, strengthen outdoor activities, exercise, more sunshine (especially in winter), to improve the ability to resist disease.
5.The diet should not be too full, eat more green vegetables, eggs and soy products food, should not eat too many cold drinks, and eat less greasy and sweet food.
6, during the flu, with the plate of blue root 15 grams, wild chrysanthemum 10 grams, Guanzhong 10 grams, water decoction soup with a little sugar, at any time as tea.
If the flu is not properly treated or not timely can turn into pneumonia.