Coughing in the morning
Coughing is particularly severe in the morning but not much during the day. What is the reason?
When you cough in the morning, your lungs are expelling phlegm. After a night of transportation and transformation by the spleen and stomach, some phlegm and waste water in the body will produce a lot of phlegm, which will be stored in the lungs. . When you get up in the morning, your lungs need fresh air, and a lot of phlegm has accumulated in your body, so you must spit it out quickly. Coughing is how you expel phlegm.
So if you have a cough in the morning, you must regulate your spleen and stomach. The spleen is the source of phlegm. Only by cutting off the source of blood stasis can the root of phlegm be removed. In addition, attention should be paid to controlling the intake of dinner and strict dietary restrictions.
Coughing at night
My child keeps coughing at night but not during the day. What's going on? Night cough in children is also caused by different reasons. It is mainly divided into the following four types:
① Cold, cold
When children catch cold, it is mainly because the body is relatively "cold", so they should pay attention to keeping warm and getting rid of the cold
② Insufficient Yang Qi
Since the temperature is relatively high during the day, children will cough less during the day, but when the cold gets worse at night, the cough will become more serious. At this time, it is necessary to enhance the child's resistance and regulate the child's physique.
③ Children with phlegm
who have this kind of situation are usually because they eat too much at night and have an unreasonable diet, which hurts the spleen and stomach. Especially babies who have been fed at night for a long time are more likely to cough at night. Eating too much at night will deprive the spleen and stomach of rest, and may also cause food accumulation, etc. Therefore, children with night cough must eat less at night.
④ Autumn dryness
Due to autumn dryness, the throat is prone to dryness and itching, which may lead to coughing. During the day, children talk, eat, and drink more frequently, and their throats are more moisturized, so children will cough much less during the day. Faced with this kind of nocturnal cough due to autumn dryness, it is necessary to replenish the child's water in time, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, and it can be solved well.
Foods to avoid when coughing
① Chicken, fish, meat Eggs and milk , which contain high calories and protein and are the source of phlegm, so are strictly taboos;
② Snacks containing more fat, such as Walnuts, melon seeds, pine nuts, etc., eating too much can easily damage the spleen, cause indigestion, high calories, and easily produce heat and phlegm;
③ Shell seafood, such as crabs and prawns, although rich in nutrients, can easily produce phlegm if eaten in excess;
④ Duck meat is particularly fat and very cool, and eating too much can damage the spleen and produce phlegm;
⑤ Pickles and cured meats will produce active nitrogen and nitrate during the production, which will damage the spleen, affect the lungs, and aggravate phlegm;
⑥ Fatty meat, meat produces phlegm, abnormal metabolism in the body, and prone to phlegm;
⑦ Sweets such as sugar and cakes, the sweetness enters the spleen, and eating too much will damage the spleen and produce phlegm;
⑧ Spicy food, Spicy food irritates the throat and stomach, so it is best not to eat anything with phlegm;
⑨ Butter, cheese, chocolate, etc., are high in calories and easy to cause lung fire;
⑩ French fries, fried and other puffed foods, the baby's spleen, stomach and lung functions are not yet mature, these foods produce lung heat, phlegm and dampness.
