Poster News reporter Tian Liu reports from Beijing
On December 2, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter. At the meeting, Chinese medicine experts gave suggestions on home care for children with respiratory diseases.
Yang Jinghua, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that first, parents should pay attention to the change of temperature, and follow the change of temperature to increase or decrease clothes for their children at any time. The second is to pay attention to indoor ventilation, which is helpful to reduce the accumulation of indoor pathogens. Third, it is best not to smoke indoors, minimize going out during the illness, and avoid going to crowded and noisy places.
Proper attention should also be paid when it comes to diet. First of all, during the illness, the child's nutrition should be balanced and rich, but special attention should be paid to the light diet, the food should be easy to digest, and some vegetables and fruits can be ingested appropriately, and some unhealthy diets should be avoided. For example, traditional Chinese medicine says that "if you drink cold, you will hurt your lungs", which means that if you eat too much raw and cold things, your lungs will be damaged, so children with cough symptoms should generally not eat some cold drinks or eat too much melon and fruit food. Secondly, the lungs are relatively delicate, and they are afraid of hot and spicy food, so when you have symptoms of respiratory tract infection in winter, you should also pay attention to avoid ingesting some spicy and fried foods such as chili peppers and french fries, so as to avoid further damage to the lungs. Third, "fatty, sweet, thick and greasy will hurt the spleen and stomach", the child's spleen and stomach function is relatively weak, especially during illness, the digestive function will decline, in this state, the child's food must be easy to digest, try to avoid the intake of some high-calorie food, try to minimize the intake of some desserts or drinks, etc.
Wu Liqun, director of the Department of Pediatrics at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine East Hospital, suggested that in the later stage of the disease, if children have a long cough, dietary therapy can be used. For example, when you have a cough, a lot of phlegm, and the phlegm is white and thin, you can stew pears with tangerine peel and ginger, wash the fresh pears, don't peel them, dig out the pear core, add tangerine peel and ginger shreds in the middle of the pears, put them in a bowl and steam them in water, drink soup and eat pears. Tangerine peel has a good effect of drying and dampness and expectorant, ginger has the effect of warming the lungs and dissolving phlegm, and pear and pear peel have the effect of moistening the lungs and reducing fire. If the child's symptoms are dry cough and less phlegm, in this case, you can use lily and Chuanbei to stew pears, and lily and Chuanbei have the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs.