It is common for children to cough at the turn of spring and summer. Many parents often use various so-called \”effective\” methods to treat their children\’s diseases. Parents, please note that many foods not only cannot help children recover, but will instead make their children\’s conditions more serious. Eight things to avoid when your child is coughing! One taboo: Eating cold or frozen drinks when coughing. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung diseases. If you eat cold drinks at this time, it will easily cause lung qi obstruction, which will aggravate the symptoms and not heal over time. At the same time, the amount of phlegm is also related to the spleen. Eating too much cold food can also damage the spleen and stomach, causing the function of the spleen to decline. Tip: Even for healthy children, it is not advisable to eat large amounts of cold drinks. The specific manifestations are as follows: 1. Most cold drinks are high-fat foods that are not easy to digest and will reduce appetite. 2. Eating too much ice cream will make fat children fatter and thinner. Two taboos: Fried foods. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. Eating more fatty, sweet and flavorful foods in your daily diet will produce internal heat and aggravate coughing. In addition, it is not advisable to eat too much fried food. Because fried foods will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and produce phlegm, making it difficult to cure a cough. In addition, fried food is not easy to digest and can easily make children feel full in their stomachs, thus affecting their interest in eating other foods and affecting their appetite. Three taboos: Children with coughs from fishy foods will worsen their coughs after eating fishy foods. This is related to the fishy smell irritating the respiratory tract and the protein allergy to fish and shrimp foods. In particular, children who are allergic to certain fish and eggs should avoid such foods. Among them, silver carp and hairtail are the most affected. Tips: Most people know that when coughing, you need to avoid \”eating things\” and fishy foods are not suitable. Fishy foods have the greatest impact on \”wind-heat coughs\”. The main symptoms of wind-heat cough in children are: fever and wind, cough with shortness of breath, excessive phlegm, thick or yellow, thirst and red throat, thin white or yellow fur, floating pulse, and purple and stagnant fingerprints. Four taboos: Sweet and sour foods and sour foods can agglomerate phlegm, making it difficult to cough up the phlegm and making it difficult to heal a cough. Eating more sweets can make inflammation difficult to heal. Five taboos: Oranges are known to be warm in spring tonight. Many people think that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm. In fact, orange peels do have the effect of relieving coughs and reducing phlegm, but orange flesh can generate heat and phlegm. Six taboos: Eat too salty food. Eating too much salty food when a child coughs can easily induce or worsen the cough. Tips: Excessive consumption of salty food for children is very harmful. First of all, excessive salt intake is a cause of upper respiratory tract infections, because a high-salt diet can reduce saliva secretion in the mouth and reduce lysozyme accordingly, providing an opportunity for the invasion of various bacteria and viruses. Secondly, when we consume a high-sodium diet, the cells in the body will become dehydrated, causing high blood pressure. The more salt we eat, the greater the risk of high blood pressure. In addition, large amounts of salt are a burden on children\’s immature kidneys. Seven taboos: Foods such as melon seeds, chocolate melon seeds, and chocolate contain a lot of fat, which can easily breed phlegm after eating and aggravate coughs. Tips: For children with cough, the daily diet must be light, but it should be nutritious and easy to digest and absorb. For children with poor appetite, mothers can make light and delicious vegetable porridge, soup, noodle soup and other easily digestible foods. Eight taboos: taking too many supplementsParents will take supplements to their weak children, but they should stop taking supplements when the child\’s cough is not cured, so as not to make the cough difficult to cure.
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