Coping with cough has always been an important part of pediatric conditioning in winter. Especially in recent times, many children have been sick, and parents should pay more attention to cough management.
These foods worsen coughing
Hurry up and avoid it
High-fat foods——
Snacks such as melon seeds, walnuts, and sesame seeds contain more oil, and it is okay to eat a small amount, but if you eat too much, it is easy to feel sticky and uncomfortable in the mouth, which is difficult to digest, which will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach and promote the breeding of phlegm. At the same time, they are high in calories and tend to cause heat and phlegm.
Spicy food——
For example, chili peppers can irritate the mucous membranes and promote coughing. Spicy foods contain capsaicin, which can irritate the mucous membranes and cause a cough that doesn't get better. Therefore, spicy foods should be avoided as much as possible during the cough.
Cold food——
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold foods can easily damage the body's yang energy, resulting in an increase in dampness in the body, resulting in the production of phlegm. Common cold foods include ice cream, cold drinks, watermelon, persimmons, etc. During the cough, you should try to eat as little or no food as possible to avoid aggravating the phlegm dampness symptoms.
Sweets——
First of all, sweets can affect your child's expectoration. The spleen is the source of phlegm, and children eating sweets can easily affect the function of the spleen and stomach to transport water and dampness. If the water in the body cannot be successfully excreted from the body, it will condense into sputum, which will not heal for a long time, and then affect the child**.
Secondly, foods high in sugar can irritate the throat and cause discomfort. The reason why sweets are sweet has a lot to do with the fact that they contain a lot of sugar, and too much sugar will irritate the child's throat, cause discomfort, and aggravate cough symptoms, which will affect normal sleep, diet and other daily activities, which is not conducive to recovery.
Regulates cough
Be dialectical
Cough is divided into cold and heat, and it is necessary to distinguish and analyze it. Cold cough should be evacuated from the wind and cold, and the lungs should be promoted; Hot cough should be cool and clear the lungs, and the conditioning methods are completely different.
1. Cold cough. Manifestations: cough in the morning and evening, aggravation in the evening, white sputum, thin quality, small amount, accompanied by white tongue, thin tongue coating, sensitivity to cold, runny nose and other conditions.
Diet: roasted oranges, tangerine peel porridge, perilla tangerine peel water, etc.
2. Hot cough. Manifestations: loud cough, mainly daytime cough, yellow, sticky, difficult to cough out, accompanied by thirst, sore throat, yellow and turbid discharge.
Diet: rock sugar duck pear, pear yellow sugar water, lily pear snow fungus syrup, etc.
There are also some children who have a mixture of cold and heat, and this situation needs to be considered comprehensively.
If you want to cough well, get better quickly
This matter is important
If you want your child's cough to get better quickly, it is important to maintain a good digestion state and avoid accumulating phlegm.
When you are sick, a part of your qi and blood will be used to fight against the disease, and this part is destined to be consumed. As a result, the part of qi and blood used to digest food will be reduced accordingly.
At this time, if you eat too much, the food is not digestible, and the part that cannot be digested is easy to turn into phlegm and dampness, which will not only aggravate the cough, but also may cause other problems.
Therefore, I often emphasize that during the illness, in addition to cooperating with the doctor, we must try to ensure that the spleen and stomach are in good condition, so that the child can get better quickly.
Specifically, when digestion is good, eat lightly, eat small meals often; When there is food accumulation, it should be eliminated in time and vegetarian for a few days. Pediatric cough