There are different types of cough, and cough caused by cold, wind-heat, wind-cold or dry heat or deficiency of lung and spleen is more common. Different types of cough have different dietotherapy methods.

1, wind-heat cough symptoms: yellow and thick phlegm, bitter mouth and dry throat, sore throat, short and yellow urine. Treatment should be clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Crystal sugar Fritillaria pear: pear 1 piece, crystal sugar 10g, Fritillaria powder 2g. Peel and core the pear, and put the crystal sugar and Fritillaria powder into the "hole". Put the pears in a bowl and steam for 30 minutes. After a little cooling, you can eat it.

2, cold and cough symptoms: runny nose, itchy throat, frequent cough, white and thin sputum. Treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, warm lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Ginger garlic brown sugar soup: 5 slices of ginger, brown sugar 12g, 3 slices of garlic. Boil water 10 minutes, and drink soup. Efficacy: Warming lung and relieving cough.

3, dry cough symptoms: dry cough without phlegm or phlegm is less sticky and difficult to cough, dry nose and dry throat. Treatment should clear lung and moisten dryness.

Walnut+sesame+jujube+honey: half a catty of walnut kernel, 2 ounces of black sesame and half a catty of jujube. 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 honey and water 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 can not only cure children's chronic cough, bronchitis and asthma, but also have a very good effect on children's constipation.

4, lung spleen deficiency cough symptoms: cough, phlegm, shortness of breath, fatigue, sweating. Or chronic cough, pale face. Treatment should be spleen and qi, phlegm and cough.

Yam almond porridge: yam 120g, almond 12g, 50g of japonica rice, peeled yam and diced, peeled almond and japonica rice for porridge. Efficacy: spleen and cough.

Dietary taboo of infant cough

1, cold food

Cold drinks or frozen drinks should not be eaten when coughing. Chinese medicine believes that once the human body catches cold and drinks cold products, it will hurt the lungs of the human body, and cough is mostly caused by lung diseases.

2. greasy and sweet food

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat. In the daily diet, eating more fat and sweet taste can produce internal heat, aggravate cough, and sticky phlegm is not easy to cough up.

3. Shrimp and crab

Most people know that coughing needs to avoid "hair" and should not eat anything with fishy smell. Children with cough get worse after eating fishy food, which is related to the stimulation of fishy smell to respiratory tract and protein allergy to fish and shrimp food.

4. Sweet and sour food

Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up phlegm, thus aggravating the condition and making it difficult to recover from cough. Apples, bananas, oranges, grapes and so on. It is not suitable for consumption when cough is severe. Eating sweets will also help heat, making inflammation difficult to cure.

Step 5 eat oranges

Many people think that oranges are cough-relieving and expectorant, so let the coughing baby eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and resolves phlegm instead.

6. Dietary supplements

Many parents give some supplements to their weak babies, but they should stop taking supplements when the baby's cough has not healed, so as not to cause incurable diseases.