Rich, sweet food
Because at this time, children's gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, fat and sweet food are not easy to digest, which increases the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and helps to produce phlegm due to damp heat, making cough difficult to heal.
Hair products such as fish, shrimp and crab.
Chinese medicine believes that fish, shrimp, crabs and other hair products are not edible. Children with cough will get worse after eating fishy food, because the fishy smell stimulates the respiratory tract, and some children are allergic to fish, shrimp and crabs. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat these foods when coughing.
Spicy food
Children's diet should avoid sweet and sour, spicy and irritating foods. Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up, which leads to aggravation of illness and difficult to recover from cough.
sweet food
When a child has a severe cough, sweets such as chocolate and sugar and fruits that are too sweet, such as apples and bananas, should not be eaten, because eating sweets will also help heat and produce phlegm, making inflammation difficult to cure.
Oily food
Children should also avoid eating foods containing more oil, such as peanuts and melon seeds, because eating these foods will also breed sputum, making it difficult to expectorate and aggravating cough.