What are the 8 dietary taboos for children's cough? What are the precautions for children's cough?

1. Avoid cold food.

It is not advisable to drink cold or frozen drinks when you have a cough. Chinese medicine believes that once the body is exposed to cold, it will damage the lungs, and coughs are mostly caused by lung diseases. If you drink cold drinks at this time, it is easy to cause lung qi blockage, aggravate the symptoms, and not heal over time. At the same time, the amount of phlegm is also related to the spleen. Eating too much cold food will also damage the spleen and stomach, causing the spleen function to decline.

2. Avoid fatty, sweet and greasy foods.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. Eating too much fatty and sweet food in daily diet will produce internal heat and aggravate cough. In addition, it is not advisable to eat too much fried food. Because fried food will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, breed phlegm, and make it difficult to heal the cough.

3. Avoid fish, shrimp and crab.

Children with cough will have a more severe cough after eating fishy foods, which is related to the fishy smell irritating the respiratory tract and the protein allergy of fish and shrimp foods. Children who are allergic to certain fish and eggs should pay more attention to avoid such foods.

4. Avoid sweet and sour foods.

Sour food will make phlegm difficult to cough up, which will make cough difficult to cure. Eating too much sweet food will make it difficult to cure inflammation.

5. Avoid eating oranges.

Many people believe that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm. In fact, orange peel does have this effect, but orange flesh can actually generate heat and phlegm.

6. Avoid eating too salty food.

Eating too much salt can easily induce coughing or make it worse.

7. Avoid peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate, etc.

The above-mentioned foods contain a lot of fat, which can easily breed phlegm after eating and aggravate the cough.

8. Avoid taking supplements.

Many parents will give supplements to children with weak constitutions, but if the child’s cough has not healed, the supplements should be stopped to avoid making the cough difficult to heal.