Children’s cough may be a common situation encountered by parents. Usually when babies cough, they are sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and they take medicine according to the doctor’s instructions. However, in addition, there are other auxiliary methods to help the baby recover as quickly as possible and reduce the pain of the disease. That is diet therapy. However, different coughs require different dietary treatments and appropriate medicines to achieve the desired results.

According to the symptoms of baby’s cough, it is mainly divided into four types:

1. Hot cough: cough with phlegm, yellow phlegm, red tongue with yellow coating, and red throat

(1) Rock sugar Sichuan clamshell pear: 1 pear, 10 grams of rock sugar, 2 grams of Sichuan clamshell powder. Peel the pear, scoop out the core, and put the rock sugar and Sichuan clamshell powder into the "hole". Put the pears in a bowl and steam for 30 minutes, wait for it to cool down slightly before eating

(2) White radish rock sugar drink: 1 white radish, 12 grams of rock sugar, cut the white radish into slices, add water and After boiling the rock sugar, simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Efficacy: Clear away heat and resolve phlegm.

(3) Loquat leaf porridge: 12 grams of loquat leaves, 50 grams of japonica rice. Wrap the loquat leaves with gauze, add water and cook, remove the residue and retain the juice, add japonica rice and cook it into porridge for consumption. Efficacy: antitussive and phlegm-resolving.

2. Cold cough: cough, thin and white phlegm, and thin and white tongue coating.

(1) Ginger, garlic and brown sugar soup: 5 slices of ginger, 12 grams of brown sugar, 3 slices of garlic. Add water and cook for 10 minutes and drink the soup. Effect: Warming the lungs and relieving cough.

(2) Ginger sugar tofu soup: 200 grams of tofu, 50 grams of brown sugar, 3 slices of ginger, add a little water and cook. Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and warm the lungs.

3. Cough due to spleen deficiency: recurrent cough, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, loose stools.

(1) Yam and almond porridge: 120 grams of yam, 12 grams of almonds, 50 grams of japonica rice, peel the yam and cut into pieces, peel the almond tips, add japonica rice and water to cook porridge for consumption. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and relieve cough.

(2) Coix seed and Poria cocos porridge: 30 grams of coix seed, 30 grams of Poria cocos, 50 grams of japonica rice, add water to cook the porridge. Efficacy: Invigorating the spleen, exuding dampness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm.

(3) Red dates and ginkgo porridge: 10 grams of red dates, 3 ginkgo, and 50 grams of japonica rice. Add water to cook porridge. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, relieve cough and asthma.

4. Cough due to lung-yin deficiency: long-term cough with little phlegm, dry mouth, red tongue, and night sweats.

(1) Lily porridge: 15 grams of fresh lily, 50 grams of glutinous rice, 10 grams of rock sugar. Add fresh lily and glutinous rice to water to cook porridge, add rock sugar and eat. Efficacy: Nourish the lungs and relieve cough.

(2) Tremella soup: 30 grams of dried tremella, 1 egg, 200 grams of rock sugar. Boil the tremella until soft, add rock sugar to dissolve; take egg whites from the eggs, add a little water, stir, and put into the tremella. Serve warm. Efficacy: Nourishing yin, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

Home remedies for cough in children

Compared with traditional cough medicines and cough drops, in recent years experts have proposed that letting babies (more than four months old) eat some bird's nest can effectively relieve cough and cough. Improve your baby's immunity!

Bird’s nest has no hormones and is a warming tonic. It can be eaten by babies over four months old! The bird's nest acid component in bird's nest can improve the baby's immunity and is also of great help to the baby's intellectual development! And the effect of bird's nest on moistening the lungs and relieving coughs is very good!

Ingredients of bird's nest: Bird's nest is rich in water-soluble protein and carbohydrates. Trace elements include: calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, bird's nest acid and amino acids:.

Children need to supplement a large amount of calcium during their growth period, and bird's nest is natural and rich in active calcium, which can provide sufficient calcium for children during their growth period.

Children’s restlessness: Children are restless and unable to sit still when they are growing up. Parents generally understand that children are naughty when they are young. In fact, appropriate exercise is appropriate, but if it is excessive, it will form ADHD, which is often called ADHD, which requires attention. Children should supplement some protein during their growth. Bird's nest is rich in water-soluble protein, providing balanced nutrition for children. , Improve children's physical immunity.

Children's memory: Bird's nest is rich in bird's nest acid, which helps children's brain development during their growth period, active thinking, memory improvement, and enhances children's self-confidence.