2, cold food: when children cough, don't eat cold food. Cold food is easy to cause lung qi obstruction and aggravate symptoms, and cold food will hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to the decline of spleen function. But at ordinary times, children should be given less cold food.
3, sweet and sour food: sour food will hold back phlegm, so that cough can not come out, make the condition worse, leading to cough difficult to heal. It is not good to eat more sweets. Sweet food is easy to help heat, making inflammation difficult to cure.
4. Salty food: When children cough, it is not advisable to eat salty food, such as pickles and mustard tuber. Eating too salty can easily induce cough or make it worse. Too much salt can easily lead to respiratory tract infection, while too salty food can easily reduce oral saliva secretion, so that bacteria and germs will take advantage of it. In addition, high-salt food will bring a lot of burden to children's immature kidneys.
5, fried food: when children cough, gastrointestinal function is weak, it is not appropriate to eat fried food. First, it will cause excessive internal heat, increase the burden on the stomach, produce sputum and aggravate cough; Secondly, fried food is not easy to digest, a large number of vitamins are destroyed, and children are prone to satiety and are not interested in other foods, which affects appetite and intake of other vitamins.
6, shrimp and crab: children with cough eating shrimp and crab will increase the body's water, produce phlegm, easily get angry, and cough will be more serious. Its own fishy smell can irritate respiratory tract, or it is protein allergy in fish and shrimp food. If the child belongs to "wind-heat cough", these foods should be avoided.
7, oranges, pears: Many people think that cough should eat more oranges and pears. Although orange peel has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, orange meat is hot and resolving phlegm, so don't eat oranges. Pears can clear away heat and promote fluid production, but they are cool fruits. Eating raw can lead to an aggravated cough. However, it can be stewed, and rock sugar Sydney is still good.
8, cold drinks or frozen drinks: Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly lung qi deficiency, and lung qi is reversed. There should be something wrong with the lungs at this time. Eating cold or frozen drinks will only make the illness worse. However, even for healthy children, eating cold drinks is not advisable. Cold drinks are mostly high-fat foods, which are not easy to digest and will reduce appetite, which is not conducive to children's physical development and healthy growth.
9, oily nuts: melon seeds, peanuts, cashews, walnuts and other foods contain more oil, easy to produce phlegm after eating, so that cough is aggravated.
10, taking supplements: children should not take supplements when they cough and get sick. At this time, you should stop taking these supplements (zinc supplement, calcium supplement and iron supplement) so as not to make the cough difficult to heal.