Cough can be divided into exogenous cough and internal injury cough, and exogenous cough can be 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. Here is a simple way to distinguish, that 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.

1. Ginger, brown sugar and garlic

The child has a cold, and drinking warm ginger and 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. It takes 10 minutes to boil out the spicy taste of garlic and make children willing to drink it.

Steamed garlic water

Take 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic, mash them, put them into a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a crystal sugar, cover the bowl and steam 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.

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. scrambled eggs with ginger sesame oil

Put a teaspoon of sesame oil in a wok, heat the oil, add Jiang Mo, soak 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. Pears, peppers and rock sugar

Pears 1 piece, washed, cut horizontally and hollowed out the core in the middle, add 20 prickly ash and 2 crystal sugar, then put the pears in a bowl and steam on the pot 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, watermelon, wax gourd, bitter gourd, water chestnut, arrowheads, kelp, laver and raw radish.

cough due to wind-heat evil

1. Pear crystal sugar Chuanbei

Cross-cut the pear according to the handle, dig out the core in the middle, add 2~3 crystal sugar and 5~6 Fritillaria cirrhosa (Fritillaria cirrhosa should be broken 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.

Boiled 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, 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 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.

Others eat winter melon simmer soup, stir-fry loofah, stir-fry lotus root slices, stir-fry bitter gourd and so on. It also plays the role of removing fire, purging 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.

Internal injury cough

Cough due to internal injury refers to a chronic cough that recurs for a long time. 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 dietotherapy method is as follows:

1. The remedies for colds and coughs are all suitable for babies with internal injuries and coughs.

2. yam porridge

Peel the yam, cut it into small pieces, put it into 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. Jujube and Ginkgo biloba

This prescription is 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. Walnuts, sesame seeds, red dates and honey

Half a catty of walnuts, 2 ounces of black sesame seeds and half a catty of red dates. After crushing, put it in a large bowl and stir well. Then add 1 tbsp honey and 3 tbsp water (honey is difficult to stir evenly, so you can heat it 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.

Children cough massage

1. Paibei

Infants and young children will not spit, even if the sputum has been coughed up, it will only be swallowed into the stomach. When the baby coughs, the parents pick up the baby and gently pat the baby's back with the empty palm, up, down, left and right. If a certain part has just been filmed, the baby will cough, indicating that the baby's sputum is accumulated here, and the filming should be focused. Most of them are under the scapula, that is, the bottom of the lung is easy to accumulate phlegm. As long as there is sputum stimulation, the baby will cough. Once the sputum is discharged, the cough can be temporarily relieved. Therefore, patting the back can broaden the chest and regulate qi, and promote the discharge of sputum. It is best to pat the baby on the back when he just wakes up or goes to bed.

2. For babies with wind-heat cough accompanied by sore throat and tonsillitis, foot massage can be used.

Rub your baby's feet up and down first, rubbing each foot 30 times. Then massage each toe up and down for 20 to 40 times. Focus on massaging the parts on both sides of the big toe root. As long as the tonsils are inflamed, this part will be very painful. Massage each foot for 5 minutes. After massage, the symptoms of baby's sore throat will be significantly reduced.

Give your baby plenty of warm water or light salt water in time after massage. Massage the baby twice a day, and then with diet therapy, the baby's illness will soon recover.

Pay attention to "nurturing" children with cough.

As the saying goes, "three-point treatment, seven-point support", if you want to cure your child's cough, you must pay attention to "support".

(1) Keeping the indoor air fresh and dirty will cause bad stimulation to the respiratory mucosa, which may lead to congestion, edema, abnormal secretion or aggravate cough, and even cause severe wheezing symptoms. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the indoor air fresh, the kitchen fume should be discharged, and parents should not smoke at home. You should always open the window for ventilation.

(2) Change clothes in time Many parents think that children are definitely more afraid of the cold than adults. They often cover their children too thick and wrap them too tightly, regardless of the season, indoors and outdoors, so as not to let them suffer from a little cold. Lead to poor body regulation and low resistance.

(3) Adjusting the room temperature Children's cough is often accompanied by fever. Too high room temperature is not conducive to body heat dissipation. Slightly cold fresh air can make the respiratory mucosa contract, reduce congestion and swelling, and keep the respiratory tract unobstructed. However, if the temperature is too low, the nutrients digested and absorbed will be used too much for oxidation to generate energy to maintain body temperature, thus weakening the disease resistance and affecting growth and development. The suitable temperature is 25-28℃, which is called neutral temperature.

It is difficult to maintain this temperature under normal circumstances, but the room temperature should not be too high or too low. Proper opening and closing of doors and windows, avoiding crowded indoor crowds and using electric fans, heaters or air conditioners are all simple and easy measures.

(4) Keep proper humidity indoors, the environment is too dry, the air humidity drops, the mucous membrane becomes dry and fragile, small blood vessels may rupture and bleed, cilia movement is limited, and sputum is not easy to cough up. When there is inflammation in the respiratory organs, the effect is more obvious. It is not difficult to keep a certain humidity in the room. When the climate is dry, you can often mop the floor with a wet mop or sprinkle some water on the floor.

(5) Pay attention to diet regulation. As the saying goes, "fish makes a fire, meat produces phlegm, and green vegetables and tofu keep it safe." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fishy and greasy foods such as fish, crab, shrimp and fat meat may contribute to dampness and phlegm, and some may also cause allergic reactions and aggravate the condition. Pepper, pepper, ginger and other spicy products have a stimulating effect on the respiratory tract, which makes the cough worse and should be avoided. Fresh vegetables, such as vegetables, carrots and tomatoes. , can supply a variety of vitamins and inorganic salts, which is conducive to the recovery of the body's metabolic function.

(6) When enough sleep is ensured, the muscles of the whole body are relaxed, the response to external stimuli is reduced, and activities such as heartbeat, breathing and excretion are reduced, which is conducive to the recovery of various organ functions and the rehabilitation of diseases. Children should stay in bed and ensure adequate sleep, which is conducive to the recovery of the body.

These are some of my collections. I hope they can help you. I have used some, and they are really effective.