What should I do if my baby has a cough? What are the dietary treatments for my baby's cough?

When babies have coughs, their mental state will be bad, their temper will be bad, and their appetite will decrease, which will make parents very anxious. When babies have coughing symptoms, we can use diet therapy to improve the coughing symptoms. So what are the diet therapy methods for babies' coughs? Let's learn about it together.

1. Stewed Kumquat with Rock Sugar

Kumquat has the effect of reducing phlegm and relieving cough. It has a dry and warm nature. Kumquat is stewed with rock sugar in a pot with water. It has the effect of treating cough caused by cold. The ingredients we need to prepare for the rock sugar stewed kumquat are 2 pounds of kumquat, appropriate amount of rock sugar, half a lemon, and 2 spoons of honey.

To make the kumquat stewed with rock sugar, wash the kumquats, soak them in salt water for 1 hour, drain them, cut them in half, crush them and remove the seeds. Then add water and rock sugar to a pot and boil until the rock sugar melts in the water. Finally, pour in the crushed and seeded kumquats, boil the water over high heat, turn down to low heat and simmer for about 40 minutes. Turn off the heat when the liquid thickens. Pour into a sealed container, let it cool and store it in the refrigerator. When your baby coughs, you can take an appropriate amount and put it in his mouth or give him water to drink. It has the effect of relieving cough.

2. Steamed Garlic Water

If the baby's cough is caused by cold, we can choose steamed garlic water to relieve the cough. The method of steamed garlic water is to first take the skinned garlic cloves, smash them with a kitchen knife and put them in a bowl, then add water to the bowl, then put in crystal sugar, and then steam it for 15 minutes after the water boils. Finally, take it out and let it cool before giving it to the baby.

3. Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs Stewed with Pear

Sichuan Fritillary Stewed Pear has a good cough-relieving effect on people with coughs. The method of Sichuan Fritillary Stewed Pear is to first cut the pear in the middle, then remove the pear core, add water to a bowl, put Sichuan Fritillary and crystal sugar, then use something to fix the cut pear together, and finally put water in the pot and put the bowl on the grate to steam it. When it is not too hot, let the baby drink the soup and eat the pear flesh, which has a good cough-relieving effect.

4. Boil white radish water

Boiling white radish water has a good therapeutic effect on cough caused by wind-heat. The method is to cut the white radish into thin slices, add half a bowl of water to the pot, then put in about 10 slices of radish, and finally wait for the water to boil, turn down the heat and simmer until it boils to a small cup. Wait until the radish water is warm and give it to the baby to drink.

5. Steamed oranges with salt

Steamed oranges with salt have a good cough-relieving effect on people who have coughs. The method is to soak the oranges in light salt water for half an hour, then wash them clean, cut them horizontally, sprinkle a few grains of salt on the cut surface, and finally fix the whole orange with something, steam it in a pot for about half an hour, and after it cools down, give the baby the juice to drink and eat the pulp inside.

It is recommended that if your baby has a cough, he should drink more warm water, keep warm, and eat the above five kinds of medicinal foods, which can have a certain effect on relieving the baby's cough symptoms. Mothers may wish to give it a try.