Many diseases may have cough symptoms, such as respiratory infection, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, pharyngitis and so on. Cough is only a symptom for western medicine, and it is mainly used to relieve inflammation and cough. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that although cough is one of the main symptoms of lung diseases, there has been a saying since ancient times that "all internal organs make people cough, not just the lungs", pointing out that cough is not only a manifestation of lung diseases, but also can be caused when other organs are sick and involve the lungs. Cough can be caused by exogenous cough and internal injury cough. Exogenous cough is mostly caused by exogenous pathogens such as wind, cold, heat, dryness, etc., which are characterized by: acute onset, short course of disease, and often complicated with colds; Cough due to internal injury can be divided into spleen deficiency, lung deficiency and kidney deficiency. It is characterized by slow illness, long course of disease and recurrent attacks. Children cough more seriously than adults, and most of them cough. Parents will see a doctor, take medicine and hang water when they see their children coughing a little. As a result of drug treatment, children have poor appetite, poor nutrition and poor resistance. In this way, children are more likely to catch a cold and cough, and such children are caught in a vicious circle. Children often grow thin and black, and even cause asthma. Therefore, when a child has cough symptoms, parents should first observe his cough to see if there are complications and systemic symptoms, and then decide whether to seek medical treatment immediately. First, you need to see a doctor's cough quickly 1. The child suddenly coughed badly and had difficulty breathing. There may be a foreign body blocking the trachea. Things that are easy to swallow by mistake are peanuts, pencil boxes, pills, buttons, coins and so on. This situation is very dangerous, so you should go to the hospital in time. 2. High fever, cough, wheezing and dyspnea need to be sent to hospital immediately. Babies are prone to bronchiolitis, a kind of pneumonia. The child's face is not good, he often turns purple, or his breathing is accelerated, his shoulders are breathing with a whimper, and the lower part of his chest wall is sunken when he inhales, so he should also be sent to the hospital for treatment in time. Second, parents can observe that the cough that is not in a hurry to go to the hospital is 1. Although I have a cough and fever, I am in good spirits, mostly a cold or tonsillitis. 2. Cough after a cold, fever and cough. 3. Cough, phlegm, but no fever, good spirits. 4. Cough that only occurs in the early morning. 5. Slight cough when nervous or after exercise. Parents of the above five kinds of coughs need not worry too much. They can relieve symptoms and treat cough through diet therapy. Because cough is divided into exogenous cough and internal injury cough, exogenous cough is divided into wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough, different types of cough drugs are completely different, and the methods of diet therapy are also different. A simple way to teach parents is to observe the child's tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, it is a cold and cough, indicating that the child is cold, the cough sputum is thin and white, and it is also stuffy and runny. At this time, you should eat some food that warms up phlegm and relieves cough. If the child's tongue coating is yellow and red, it is a wind-heat cough, indicating that the child is angry, coughing yellow and thick, not easy to cough up, and has a sore throat. At this time, you should eat some foods that clear lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Cough caused by internal injuries is mostly chronic and recurrent. At this time, parents should pay attention to give their children some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidney and replenish the lung. The specific method is as follows: 1. Cold and cough 1. Ginger+brown sugar+garlic children have a cold, and drinking warm ginger brown sugar water can play a very good therapeutic role. If the child has a cough at the same time, you can add 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger brown sugar water and cook it together. 2. Steam garlic water Take 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic, mash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a crystal sugar, cover the bowl and steam them in a pot. After the fire boils, steam it on low heat 15 minutes. When the water temperature of the garlic in the bowl is hot, feed it to the children, and garlic can be eaten without it. Usually 2 ~ 3 times a day, a small bowl. Garlic is warm and enters the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. It has a very good effect on treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough, and it is convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it. 3. Baked oranges. Bake the orange directly on a small fire and turn it constantly until the orange peel turns black and hot air comes out of the orange. When the orange is a little cooler, peel it off and let the children eat warm orange petals. If it is a big orange, children can eat 2 ~ 3 petals at a time. If it's little Gong Ju, the children can eat one at a time. It is best to take it with garlic water, 2 ~ 3 times a day. Oranges are warm and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. After eating baked oranges, the amount of sputum will be significantly reduced, and the antitussive effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat it. 4. Jiang Mo scrambled eggs with sesame oil Put a teaspoon of sesame oil in a wok, heat the oil, put it in Jiang Mo, soak it in the oil for a while, then add 1 egg and stir well. When children cough due to cold and physical weakness, let them eat it while it is hot before going to bed every night for a few days, and you will get obvious results. 5. Pear+Zanthoxylum bungeanum+rock sugar pear 1 piece, washed, cut horizontally to remove the core in the middle, then put 20 Zanthoxylum bungeanum and 2 rock sugar, put the pears in a bowl and steam for about half an hour. A pear can be eaten twice. Steamed pepper and rock sugar pear are very effective in treating colds and coughs, but some children don't like the taste of pepper, so parents can choose for themselves. The above is the prescription for treating cough due to wind-cold. Parents should also pay attention to the following raw and cold foods that children should not eat: mung beans, crabs, mussels, snails, persimmons, grapefruit, bananas, kiwis, sugar cane, watermelons, melons, bitter melons, water chestnuts, arrowheads, kelp, lavers and raw radishes. Second, wind-heat cough can be dietotherapy 1. Pear+crystal sugar+Fritillaria cirrhosa Cut the pear according to the handle, dig out the core in the middle, put 2~3 crystal sugar, 5~6 Fritillaria cirrhosa (Fritillaria cirrhosa should be ground into powder), put the pear in a bowl, steam it in a pot for about 30 minutes, and give it to the baby twice. This recipe has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Because babies nowadays are generally greedy for cold, they blow air conditioners when they are hot and eat cool fruits all the year round, so the number of babies suffering from wind-heat cough is obviously reduced. 2. Boil radish water. Wash the white radish, cut it into 4~5 pieces, put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, put it on the fire and boil it for 5 minutes. Give it to the baby after the water is a little cold. This prescription has a good effect on wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, especially for babies under 2 years old. 3. You can also give your baby the following foods: ① Persimmon: cold in nature, which can clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. But the baby can only eat one at a time, and eating too much will make him uncomfortable. ② Watermelon: cold in nature can cure all fever. If the baby coughs due to wind and heat in summer, give him more watermelon. 3 loquat: cool, can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. Suitable for babies with fever, cough, yellow pus and phlegm. 4 water chestnut: cold in nature, water chestnut can resolve phlegm and clear heat. Peel 2~3 horseshoes, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water and burn them on the fire for 5 minutes. This prescription has a good effect on patients with fever, cough and expectoration. When the baby coughs due to wind-heat, you can also give him melon simmer soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices and fried bitter gourd, which also plays the role of removing fire, dispelling fire and relieving cough. It is forbidden to eat spicy and easily get angry, such as mutton, dog meat, silky fowl, fish, shrimp, jujube, longan, litchi, walnut kernel, pepper, cherry, silkworm chrysalis, etc. Third, internal injury cough Internal injury cough refers to a long-term, recurrent chronic cough. Or a cough caused by a cold and fever. Although the symptoms of cold and fever have disappeared, the cough has not recovered. Babies who cough repeatedly have poor appetite and no appetite because they use more anti-inflammatory drugs and cough medicines, and their tongue coating is almost white. Therefore, parents should first regulate the baby's spleen and stomach and improve the baby's physique. The specific diet is as follows: 1. The invention is suitable for infants with cough due to internal injuries. 2. Yam porridge Peel the yam, cut it into small pieces, put it in a food grinder, add half a bowl of water, and process the yam into a thin paste. Then pour it into the pot and set fire to it. At the same time, keep stirring to make it boil. It is best for the baby to eat on an empty stomach, and a bowl of yam porridge can be fed to the baby 2~3 times. Yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes lung qi and kidney essence. This prescription is most suitable for infants, not only can relieve cough and asthma, but also has a good therapeutic effect on anorexia, hyperhidrosis, drooling, qi deficiency and timidity in children. It should be noted that the boiling time of yam should not be too long, otherwise the amylase contained in it will decompose and lose its nourishing effect. 3. Red dates and ginkgo biloba are suitable for babies over 2 years old. Take 3 pieces of red dates and 3 pieces of ginkgo biloba, put them in a small pot, add more than half a bowl of water, and simmer for 10 minute. Give it to the baby before going to bed every night. Jujube is warm, benefiting qi, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach; Ginkgo biloba has the functions of calming lung qi, relieving cough and asthma and strengthening kidney, so it is very effective for some children with chronic cough, repeated colds, cough and fever, and can also treat enuresis. It should be noted that the amount of red dates and ginkgo must be well controlled, limited to 3 capsules. Too much will cause the baby to get angry and stagnate. 4. Walnut+sesame+jujube+honey walnut kernel half a catty, black sesame 2 liang, jujube half a catty, crushed and put into a large bowl and stir evenly, then add 1 m spoon honey and 3 m spoon water (honey is difficult to stir evenly, so you can heat honey and water on the fire first). Cover a large bowl and steam in a large pot. After the fire boils, steam for 40 minutes on low heat. Give the baby a spoonful every morning and evening. This prescription is most suitable for children. It can not only cure children's chronic cough, bronchitis and asthma, but also have a very good effect on children's constipation. If this prescription is eaten for a long time, it can strengthen the baby's physique. Wish the baby health