When a baby coughs and produces phlegm, it is not only uncomfortable for the baby, but also for the parents when they see it. You don’t want your baby to feel uncomfortable, so getting your baby’s cough to heal quickly is the first priority. Let’s take a look at what is the best food for children with cough

Dietary taboos for cough

If the baby has a cough, the baby’s diet should be light and tonic. Avoid fatty, fried, raw and cold foods, but because coughs can be divided into four categories: cold, heat, deficiency and excess, you should also distinguish them when choosing soup, so that you can "drink the soup according to the symptom."

If your baby has a cold cough, foods that can warm the lungs and resolve phlegm are suitable, such as ginger egg soup, huangpiguo, and walnuts. Avoid eating raw and cold fruits, such as bananas, watermelon, cabbage, radishes and cold drinks.

If the baby has a cough caused by excessive heat, it is suitable to eat light and phlegm-reducing foods, such as white radish and pig lung soup, snow pears, and loquat fruits. Instead of eating fried, fatty, spicy foods, such as fried meat, fried chicken, French fries, chili, etc.

What should babies eat when they cough?

White radish and mussels and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 1000 grams of white radish, 10 grams of Sichuan clams, 30 grams of mussels, and 150 grams of lean meat.

Method:

1. Wash the white radish and cut into pieces, and cut the lean meat into pieces.

2. Put the ingredients in step 1 into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer over low heat for 4 hours, season with a little salt, and it is ready to drink.

Editor’s tip: It is best to choose long-shaped white radish. If your baby has a lot of yellow phlegm, it is recommended to take this soup 3-5 times continuously.

Fig, Lotus Seed, Lily and Pork Tendon Soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of sugar-free figs, 25 grams of lotus seeds, 25 grams of lilies, and 200 grams of pork tendons.

Method:

1. Rinse the pork tendons with water to remove the fishy smell, put the ingredients into the pot together, and add an appropriate amount of water.

2. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 1-2 hours. Season with a little salt and serve.

Steamed garlic water

Take 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, smash it, put it into a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a grain of rock sugar, cover the bowl and put it into the pot Steam over medium heat, then steam over low heat for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is warm, feed it to the child. You don’t have to eat the garlic. Generally, 2 to 3 times a day, half a bowl at a time.

Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridian. It is very effective in treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough. It is also convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.