Nowadays, many children have colds and coughs, but there are some foods that must not be eaten during the cough. As long as they are eaten, the child's cough will worsen, so parents should keep this in mind. Now I will take you to learn about some things that children cannot eat when they are coughing!
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Cake desserts
Cake desserts are very tempting, but these tempting foods are high in oil and sugar. Most cakes and pastries are made with vegetable cream. These vegetable creams contain a large amount of trans fatty acids , which will cause a burden on the body if eaten regularly.
If eaten during a cough, it will produce dampness and phlegm. For children who originally had a quick cough, their cough will worsen after eating sweet and greasy cakes, and their phlegm will suddenly increase. While the cough is not cured, no matter how tempting the cakes or desserts are, they should not be given to the baby.
In daily life, you should also control your intake of cakes and desserts. If you have ever made a cake yourself, you will have a deep understanding. The amount of sugar and oil added to the cake is simply frightening. It will cause a physical burden on both adults and children.
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Fish, shrimp, seafood
Some mothers feel that their babies are weak when they are sick and lose weight when they are sick. If they do not eat better to supplement nutrition, the baby will be more exhausted. Therefore, the more babies cough, the more nutritious food they need to eat.
In fact, this idea is wrong. As the saying goes: "Fish make fire, meat makes phlegm." Most fish, shrimp and seafood are high-protein foods, which are not easy to digest. When coughing due to yin deficiency or food accumulation cough, these foods will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
When your baby coughs, you must be willing to let her not eat fish, shrimp and seafood.
A mother once asked me: "Mom, you said to drink radish water. My mother-in-law said that pure radish water is very hard to drink. She cooked crucian carp soup for the baby to drink. Is this okay?" Of course not? Yes, crucian carp is irritating and will aggravate coughing. The antitussive effect of radish is offset by that of crucian carp. If you eat it, it will feel like you have not eaten it. How can it relieve cough?
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Fried food
Some babies like to eat fried food, such as French fries, fried chicken wings, fried pork chops ... Eating these fried foods at ordinary times will cause yin deficiency . Eating them during a cough will further aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency. Fried foods themselves are hot. Eating them during a cough will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, produce heat and phlegm, and can cure coughs.
Therefore, fried foods must not be eaten during a cough. Vegetarian meals mainly consisting of porridge, steaming or boiling can help the body recover.
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Cheese
Cheese foods can also cause yin deficiency and heat, and produce dampness and phlegm. Therefore, when your baby is coughing, do not eat sandwiches, pizza, etc. containing cheese.
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Fat, sweet and greasy food
Some time ago, a mother and her baby had a cough for more than half a month, but it still didn’t get better. She asked me to look at her baby’s tongue. She took a photo of the baby's tongue seriously and sent it to me. I clicked it and took a look. I wasn’t shocked by the baby’s tongue, but I was shocked by the sumptuous dinner at her house in the background.
Her family's food is very rich, including braised pork with pickled vegetables, soy sauce duck, dry-roasted hairtail, and several vegetarian dishes, each of which contains more or less slices of meat.
I asked her if the baby ate such rich dishes every day when the baby was coughing, and the mother said yes. I told her that if she eats like this every day, the baby will certainly have recurring coughs.
Fatty, sweet and greasy food can produce dampness and phlegm, and can also aggravate the symptoms of spleen deficiency and lung heat.I asked her to control her diet. The whole family would first eat a vegan diet for a week.
A week later, the mother told me that after she got her diet under control, her baby's cough was cured quickly.
Many babies have a bad cough. In fact, in addition to their own reasons, too much food at home is also a pitfall!
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Nuts such as melon seeds and peanuts
After the weather gets cold, melon seeds, peanuts and other nuts become popular. Eating these foods will aggravate dryness and heat, and eating too much can easily lead to internal heat. During a cough, eating melon seeds and peanuts will add fuel to the fire, aggravate the throat discomfort and aggravate the cough.
Some other highly processed nuts also have artificial sweeteners added during processing. Try not to eat them when you are coughing.
Of course, not all nuts are inedible. Walnuts have the effect of relieving coughs. Take a handful of walnut kernels, boil water and let it warm, then add a small spoonful of honey, which can treat tracheitis . This is a folk remedy my father used when he was suffering from bronchitis when he was a child. It is suitable for children over 3 years old.
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Hot fruits
Many babies’ coughs are caused by yin deficiency. In the case of yin deficiency, if you eat hot fruits, it will add fuel to the fire and make the cough heavier.
Longan, mango, durian, pineapple, jackfruit, lychee and other hot fruits should not be eaten during a cough. In addition, you can eat other fruits, as long as they are in moderation.
In short, it is very important to control your mouth during coughing. The diet must be light. If the child cannot control it, adults must help him control it. Otherwise, if the cough accidentally worsens, the mother will be the most worried! For the sake of the child's health, you must also be "cruel"!
Mom’s little nagging
Have mothers learned? The baby's resistance to is weak to , so you must take good care of your baby.
