When babies catch a cold, they are prone to coughing. The little baby cannot speak, and the process of feeding the medicine is very difficult. Seeing the baby coughing and feeling uncomfortable, the mother is really heartbroken. In fact, besides medication, dietary adjustments are also crucial for treating cough! So, what foods are good for babies to eat when coughing?
1. Pear: Actually, pear does have therapeutic effects on cough. Because pears themselves contain a large amount of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotenoids, and various vitamins. In addition, pear skin, pear flowers, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, which has good effects such as clearing heat, reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It has good effects on dry heat cough, cold cough, measles cough, and bronchitis cough.
2. Loquat: In the Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, promoting lung qi, stopping vomiting and phlegm thirst." This shows that loquat has a very good relieving and therapeutic effect on children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the outer skin and eat it directly. But make sure to clean the skin thoroughly, as it is very dirty on top.
3. Radish: Radish has the functions of clearing heat, generating fluids, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and cough, promoting urination, detoxification, etc. The simplest way is to cook a bowl of radish water for children, which has a good effect on coughing. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish vegetable soup, sugar pickled radish, radish sake frying, etc. as Tonic Diet to better treat children's cough.
4. Oranges: Oranges have a sweet and sour taste, a cool nature, and have good effects on stimulating appetite, regulating qi, quenching thirst, and moistening the lungs for children. When children cough, they can roast oranges or stir fry them in a pan. Eating it for children will have a better effect on treating cough.
5. Chinese cabbage: Chinese cabbage has a slightly cold nature and has the effects of clearing heat, eliminating irritability, quenching thirst, diuresis, promoting digestion, and clearing lung heat. Clever use of this home cooked dish can prevent and treat colds, dry and hot coughs, hoarseness, constipation, etc. It is better for babies with dry cough to eat more Chinese cabbage.
