Dietotherapy for children's colds 1. chill cold
You can add 5 knots of scallion, 3 slices of ginger and 30 grams of brown sugar to hot porridge or hot soup and cook for 10 minute. After taking it while it is hot, cover it with sweat. It is not advisable to eat more raw and cold foods: such as persimmons, crabs, chicken, duck, pork, bananas, watermelons, etc.
2. Wind-heat cold
20g of honeysuckle, 20g of chrysanthemum, 0g of mint10g, and 30g of honey, which are eaten after boiling for10min. It is not advisable to eat more foods that warm and replenish qi and blood, such as longan, jujube, litchi, mutton, sea cucumber and turtle.
3. Wet and cold in summer
20g of white lentils, 50g of Elsholtzia15g, decocted in water for 20min, taken orally, three times a day. You can also drink watermelon juice with tomato juice. Foods that should not be eaten more: you can't use ginger, onion, brown sugar and other foods, as well as cold and greasy foods that are not easy to digest.
Principles and requirements of cold diet therapy 1, diet should be light and soft: because the spleen and stomach function of patients with cold is often affected, light and soft food is easy to digest and absorb, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat white rice porridge, milk, corn porridge, rice soup, rotten noodles, egg soup, lotus root paste, almond paste and so on.
Quality or liquid diet.
2, should drink more boiled water: people with colds often have a fever and sweat, and the body loses more water. Drinking more water can improve blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and make the body temperature distributed in time. Therefore, it is better for cold patients without stomach problems to drink light green tea. Tea has a good diuretic effect, has the effect of sweating and strengthening the stomach, and can also clear the fire.
3, you should eat more fruits and vegetables: vegetables and fruits can promote appetite, help digestion, supplement a lot of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and supplement the lack of energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. You can eat more ginger and onions if you have a cold.
Coriander, etc. If it is a wind-heat cold, eat more rape, amaranth, water spinach and so on. If you catch a cold due to dampness in summer, you should eat more water bamboo, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah and cucumber. When the pathogenic heat is mild, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus roots, oranges, apples, apricots, loquats, sugar cane and water chestnuts.
4. Improper taboos: Like drugs, food has the attributes of "four qi" and "five flavors", and different foods should be selected for different types of colds. If you eat casually, improper diet is not only bad for colds, but also makes them difficult to treat. For example, cold fruits and cold drinks should not be eaten because of wind and cold, which will contract mucous membranes and blood vessels and aggravate symptoms such as stuffy nose and sore throat. During the fever period of wind-heat cold, greasy food, meat and sweets should be avoided, because these foods hinder the transport of spleen and stomach and cause phlegm-dampness cough.
Cough phlegm is not good for those who have a cold and weak spleen and stomach, so big fish and big meat, glutinous rice sweets, fried cakes and so on. Should not be taken; In the recovery period of wind-heat cold, it is not advisable to eat spicy and hot foods such as pepper, dog meat and mutton, so as not to hurt the body fluid and help the fire to produce phlegm. Summer-wet and cold, except taboo
Besides fat, you should avoid salty foods such as pickles and salted fish. Because it is too salty, it will cause phlegm and stimulate the trachea, which is not conducive to the recovery of colds.
5, avoid drinking and strong tea: wine, especially high-alcohol liquor, can make the whole body blood vessels dilate, excite the brain center, affect sleep, cause headaches, and reduce disease resistance.