When a baby coughs, it's a big worry for mothers. Knowing how to care for a child's cough on a daily basis is the key to a speedy recovery and less suffering for the child. Here are some dietary therapies for childhood cough that I would like to share with everyone!
[Dietary Therapies for Childhood Cough]
1. Pear
When we were young and had a cold and cough, our family would cook a pear and add some sugar. In fact, pears do have a therapeutic effect on cough. Pears contain a large amount of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotene, and various vitamins. In addition, pear peel, flowers, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, with good effects in clearing heat, relieving phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It is effective for dry and hot cough, cough due to cold, cough due to measles, and cough due to bronchitis.
2. Loquat
In the Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, lowering qi, benefiting lung qi, stopping vomiting, and relieving thirst and phlegm." It can be seen that loquat has a very good therapeutic effect on children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the skin and eat it directly. But the skin must be cleaned thoroughly because it is very dirty.
3. Radish
Radish has the effects of clearing heat and generating body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting urination, and detoxifying. The simplest way is to boil a bowl of radish water for the child, which has a good effect on cough. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish vegetable soup, candied radish, radish wine decoction, etc., as medicated diets for better treatment of children's cough.
[Daily Care for Childhood Cough]
1. Pay attention to keeping warm and encourage the baby to drink more water to avoid catching a cold, irritating the respiratory tract, and triggering or worsening cough.
2. Pay attention to the diet and avoid giving the coughing child sweet or greasy foods, spicy and irritating foods, and cold foods. Also, avoid giving oranges and tangerines to the child for now. Stick to eating apples and bananas, which have a neutral nature.
3. When going out, make sure the child wears a mask to prevent pollution on smoggy days and to effectively keep warm.
4. If the child's cough becomes more severe or if other complications occur, it is important to seek medical treatment promptly and avoid delaying it to prevent it from turning into pneumonia.
