There are different types of coughs: external coughs and internal coughs, and external coughs are divided into wind-cold coughs and wind-heat coughs, and different types of coughs have completely different medications and different dietary treatments. Here is a simple way for parents to distinguish between them: observe your child’s tongue. If the tongue is white, the child has a wind-cold cough, which means that the child is cold and the cough has thin, white, sticky phlegm and a stuffy, runny nose. If the child’s tongue is yellow and red, the child has a wind-heat cough, which means that the child’s internal heat is greater, and the cough has yellow, thick phlegm that is not easy to cough out, and a sore throat. Internal injury coughs are mostly prolonged and recurrent coughs. At this time, parents should pay attention to giving their children foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidneys, and replenish lung qi, as follows.
Wind-cold cough
1. Ginger + brown sugar + garlic
If your child has a cold and wind, drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can play a good therapeutic role. If your child also has a cough, add 2 to 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger and brown sugar water and cook it together, with a low fire for 10 minutes to cook off the spicy smell of garlic so that your child will drink it.
2.Steamed garlic water
Take 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, pat it down, put it in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put a grain of rock sugar, put the bowl with a lid into a pot and steam it for 15 minutes after boiling on high heat. When the garlic water in the bowl is warm, feed it to the child, and the garlic can not be eaten. Usually 2 to 3 times a day, a small half bowl at a time. Garlic is warm and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, which is very effective in treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough, and it is convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.
3. Roasted oranges
Roast the oranges directly on a low fire and keep turning them until the peel is black and hot air comes out of them. When the orange cools a bit, peel off the skin and let the child eat the warm orange petals. If it is a large orange, the child can eat 2 to 3 cloves at a time, and if it is a small gonzo orange, the child can eat one at a time. It is best to eat them together with garlic water, 2 to 3 times a day. Oranges are warm in nature and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. The amount of phlegm will be significantly reduced after eating roasted oranges, the cough suppressing effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat.
4.Fried eggs with sesame oil and grated ginger
Put a small spoonful of sesame oil into a frying pan. When the oil is hot, add minced ginger, slightly pass it in the oil, and then beat 1 egg and scramble it well. When the child has a wind-cold cough and a weak cough, let the child eat once a night before bedtime while it is still hot, and insist on eating for a few days to receive obvious results.
5, pear + pepper + rock sugar
A pear, wash, cut across and dig out the middle core, put 20 peppercorns, 2 rock sugar, and then put the pear into a bowl, steam on the pot for about half an hour, a pear can be divided into two times to finish. Steamed pepper and rock sugar pear is very effective in treating wind-cold cough, but some children do not like the taste of pepper, parents can choose their own. 1eti
The above are dietary remedies for wind-cold cough. While parents use these methods to cure the disease, they should also be aware that the following foods that are cold in nature should not be allowed to be eaten by children: mung beans, crabs, mussels, snails, snails, persimmons, grapefruit, bananas, kiwi, sugar cane, watermelon, melon, bitter melon, water chestnuts, ciguatera, kelp, nori, raw radish, eggplant, rutabaga, lotus root, winter melon, loofah and groundnut.
Honey for pediatric cough
1.Radish and honey water
Ingredients: 1 white radish, 100 grams of honey.
Production: wash and hollow out the center of the radish, put honey, set in a bowl, add water and steam for 20 minutes.)
Usage: eat radish and drink soup, twice a day.
Efficacy: moisten the lungs, stop cough, resolve phlegm, suitable for children with cough caused by pneumonia.
2, garlic sugar honey drink
Ingredients: 20 grams of garlic, sugar and honey in appropriate amounts.
Production: garlic mash, soak in boiling water to cool, and then stew for half an hour.
Serving: Take the juice into the honey, sugar, twice a day.
Efficacy: clear heat and moisten dryness, sterilization and anti-inflammatory, used for pediatric pneumonia or prolonged cough.
1.Pear + rock sugar + Sichuan shellfish
Cut the pear crosswise by the handle, dig out the middle core and put 2~3 grains of rock sugar, 5~6 grains of Chuanbei (Chuanbei should be cracked into the end), put the pear into a bowl, steam it on the pot for about 30 minutes, and give it to the baby twice. This formula has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Because babies nowadays are generally greedy for cold, blowing air conditioners when it’s hot, and eating cold fruits all year round, the number of babies suffering from wind-heat cough is now significantly reduced.
2.Boil radish water
Wash white radish, cut 4~5 thin slices, put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, put it on the fire and boil it, then switch to low heat and boil it for 5 minutes. Wait for the water to cool slightly before giving it to your baby. The effect of this formula is good for treating wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, and dry cough with little phlegm, and babies within 2 years old receive better results.
3. You can also give your baby the following foods.
① Persimmon: the nature of the great cold, can clear heat, phlegm, cough. But the baby can only eat one at a time, eat more tummy will be uncomfortable. fgeX9t
② watermelon: cold, can cure all the heat. If your baby has a wind-heat cough in summer, you can give him more watermelon. tk1
③Pequat: cool in nature, can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and stop coughing. It is suitable for babies with febrile cough spitting yellow pus phlegm.
④ Water chestnut: cold in nature, water chestnut water can dissolve phlegm and clear heat. Take 2 to 3 water chestnuts, peel them, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water and boil them on the fire for 5 minutes. This recipe works well for those who have a hot cough and spit up pus and phlegm.
When your baby suffers from wind-heat cough, you can also give him winter melon simmered in soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices and fried bitter melon, which also play a role in eliminating internal heat, dispelling fire and relieving cough. Spicy, fire-prone foods are prohibited, such as mutton, dog meat, oyster chicken, fish, shrimp, dates, cinnamon meat, lychees, walnuts, chili peppers, cherries, and silkworm pupae. ^
Massage for pediatric cough
1. Pat the back
Infants and toddlers do not spit, and even if phlegm has been coughed up they will only swallow the phlegm down into their stomachs. Parents pick up the affected child when the baby is coughing and gently pat the baby’s back with an empty palm, up and down, left and right. If the baby coughs when a certain part is patted, it means that the baby’s phlegm is accumulating there and should be patted with emphasis. Most of the time, it is the area under the shoulder blades, which is the bottom of the lungs, where phlegm tends to accumulate. As long as there is stimulation of phlegm, the baby will cough, and once there is phlegm discharge, the cough can be temporarily relieved. Therefore, patting the back can play the role of broadening the chest and promoting the discharge of phlegm. It is best to pat the back when the baby is just waking up or just before going to sleep.
2. For babies with wind-heat coughs, accompanied by sore throat and inflamed tonsils, you can use foot massage.
First, rub the baby’s feet up and down back and forth, 30 times per foot. Then massage each toe up and down 20 to 40 times. Focus on massaging both sides of the root of the big toe on the top of the foot, as long as the tonsils are inflamed, this area will be very painful, each foot massage for 5 minutes. After the massage, the baby’s sore throat symptoms will be significantly reduced. After the massage, you should give your baby more warm water in time, you can also drink light salt boiled water. Adhere to the baby massage twice a day, and then with food therapy, the baby’s disease will heal quickly.
The above introduced food therapy recipe, adults can also eat, but the amount of food to be slightly more.