Dietary treatment for infant cough Dietary treatment for infant cough

Coughing is a self-defense reflex action of human beings, which can prevent the inhalation of foreign objects, expel the secretions accumulated in the organs, and prevent secondary respiratory infections. When children cough, it is safest and healthiest to recover through diet therapy. Babies with coughs usually eat some light porridge, such as perilla porridge, scallion oil porridge, white fungus porridge, lily glutinous rice porridge, etc. They should also drink more water at ordinary times, which is conducive to eliminating phlegm and relieving coughs.

Cough is a very common minor illness for children. Cough may be caused by a cold or dry cough caused by dry air. For many exogenous coughs, such as short duration and no obvious sputum, this type of cough can usually be cured by diet therapy. So what are the diet therapy methods for infant cough?

1. Fig and rock sugar water: It can treat lung heat cough, 30 grams of figs, appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the figs, add water and rock sugar and cook together, once a day, for 3-5 consecutive days, it will be effective, and it can treat lung heat cough, hoarseness, sore throat, constipation, hemorrhoid bleeding, etc.

2. Perilla porridge: 10 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of glutinous rice, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 dates. First cook porridge with glutinous rice, then add ginger, perilla leaves, and jujubes to the porridge and cook until cooked.

3. Scallion oil porridge: 50 grams of rice, 5 slices of ginger, 5 scallions, 5 ml of rice vinegar, add water to cook porridge, drink hot.

4. Almond and radish blanching: 10 grams of almonds, 3 slices of ginger, 100 grams of white radish, decocted in water, once a day.

5. Tremella porridge: 25g Tremella, 100g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar. Cook the Tremella until it is half cooked, add the rice to cook porridge, add rock sugar and season.

6. Lily glutinous rice porridge: 50 grams of lily, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 5-10 grams of red dates, 30 grams of red beans, and appropriate amount of white sugar. First cook the red beans until half-cooked, then add glutinous rice and lily, cook until soft, then add sugar to taste.

7. Chuanbei Rock Sugar Pear: 3g Chuanbei powder, 1 large pear, 6g rock sugar. Peel the pear, dig out the pear core, fill it with Chuanbei powder and rock sugar, steam it and eat.

8. Sesame and walnut drink: 60 grams of walnuts, 60 grams of black sesame seeds, 50 grams of rock sugar, grind into powder, take with boiled water, 10 to 15 grams each time, take on an empty stomach in the morning and evening, especially suitable for people with constipation due to yin deficiency and dry intestines.

In addition, it is recommended to eat light food, drink plenty of water and sweet and sour fruits. It is not recommended to eat warm and spicy food. Usually you should drink more water instead of drinking water after you are thirsty. Children can drink a certain amount of water every day to make the sputum thinner within a certain range and easier to cough up. Drinking water helps promote blood circulation, speed up the body's discharge of waste, and speed up the discharge of toxins, reducing adverse effects on the respiratory tract.