How Do I Choose the Best Cough Suppressant for Children?

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Baby cough with phlegm food therapy

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"The spleen is the source of sputum and the lung is the device for storing sputum." So if your baby has cough and has phlegm, in addition to clearing the lungs and phlegm, you also need to strengthen the spleen and phlegm. Choosing food therapy to strengthen the spleen and reduce phlegm is the best treatment. Treatments for babies who have cough and phlegm are:

1. Yam porridge: Process the yam into a thin paste, pour it into a pot, set it on fire, and keep stirring until it boils. It is best for babies to eat on an empty stomach. Chinese yam is good for spleen and stomach, and nourishes the lungs. This formula is most suitable for infants and young children. It not only can relieve cough and treat asthma, but also has a good therapeutic effect on anorexia, excessive sweating and other diseases.

2. Tremella Sydney rock sugar water. Tremella is beneficial for qi-clearing the intestines, rock sugar for replenishing qi, and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and phlegm.

3, Chuanbei steamed Sydney. Because pear itself has the effect of moisturizing the lungs, Chuanbei has the effect of relieving cough. Generally, if you eat it once or twice, the basic cough will get better.

4. Lily porridge. Spleen and lung, cough and asthma. It is suitable for children with lung yin damage, spleen qi deficiency, cough and asthma, and reduced diet.

5, turnip soup: This prescription has the effect of nourishing the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. The treatment of wind-heat cough, dry nose and throat, dry cough and less phlegm is very effective.

6, pear: there are Shengjin Runzao, clearing heat and reducing phlegm, attending fever and injury, fever cough irritability and other symptoms.

7, garlic: the effect of phlegm and cough.

8, bu: can eliminate phlegm and flatulence.

9, Artemisia annua: warming the stomach, nourishing the intestines, improving the stomach, reducing phlegm.

Cough is a protective reflex action of the human body. The cough removes secretions and inflammatory substances in the trachea from the body with the cough, prevents foreign bodies from entering the trachea, and prevents the accumulation of bronchial secretions. The cause of cough and sputum in babies is roughly divided into 3 types. Parents should distinguish the cause of the baby according to the doctor's instructions before deciding what medicine to feed the baby.

1. Lung fever, cough and sputum. This type of cough is often seen in babies with low immunity, which is mainly manifested as repeated cough. The use of traditional Chinese medicine such as Pediatric Feikekechuan oral liquid can obviously enhance sputum excretion, and the antitussive effect is significant and long-lasting.

2, bronchitis, pneumonia and more sputum. Pediatric bronchitis is usually caused by viral infections and other complications caused by viral infections, and may also be caused by bacterial infections. The initial stage is dry cough. It is mainly a persistent cough, which will not heal for many months, and will worsen in the morning and evening, especially at night. During the remission period, some traditional Chinese medicine preparations for cough and asthma can be used, which can alleviate the symptoms to a certain extent.

3. Lung dry cough has phlegm. Mainly manifested as repeated cough, yellow sputum, accompanied by constipation, body heat or accompanied by wheezing, red tongue, thin yellow or yellow greasy, shaojin. Expelling Qingzao Runfei, Qingzao Jifei Decoction and so on.

Babies who have cough and phlegm should first distinguish the cause. Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine can be used for treatment, but food therapy is the best.

The infant's respiratory system is still immature. If a cough is given, a strong cough medicine is given. Although the cough is temporarily stopped, other functions of the trachea will be inhibited. Baby cough is suitable for cough medicine with expectorant and phlegm-reducing effects. Syrup is better than tablets. Do not dilute with water or take it with water. The more effective syrups are:

1. Compound tincture has the effects of clearing the lungs, relieving cough, and reducing phlegm, and is suitable for the syndromes such as wind-heat cough, dry throat, and uncomfortable cough.

2. Pertussis syrup, which is mild in temperature, is more suitable for cough caused by colds and colds. If it is cough caused by wind-heat colds, do not take it.

3. Cold and cough syrup, also known as phenytin syrup, is mainly for cough, taking into account phlegm, and has a sedative effect. It is suitable for diseases such as cough and sputum at night, affecting sleep and bronchitis due to allergies, but it must be mastered. dose.

In addition to taking medicine symptomatically, fruits also have unexpected effects, which can help your baby slow down the symptoms of cough. Pears can nourish the lungs, cool the heart, clear phlegm and reduce fire. Loquat contains amygdalin, which can relieve cough and expectorant. The tincture cream made with mango fruit also has cooling and annealing, phlegm and cough relieving effects. Garlic has the functions of protecting cardiovascular and liver functions, preventing colds, and powerful sterilization. Therefore, if you drink some garlic water in moderation, it will have a good effect on the baby's cough healing.

Treatment of baby's cough should focus on "raising." Parents usually pay more attention to the following aspects.

1. Helping your baby remove sputum can make your baby lie on your back with a low head and high feet, so that the sputum is easily discharged. When a baby coughs up, it may swallow the sputum instead of spit it out. Don't worry, sputum will be excreted out of the body with feces, which is not harmful to the body.

2, pay attention to diet adjustment, eat less spicy sweet food, drink plenty of water, has a flushing effect on the pharynx, can avoid pharynx dryness. Let your baby eat some foods to reduce phlegm and cough, such as pears, radishes, and coriander.

3. Keep the indoor air fresh. The kitchen fumes must be discharged. Do not smoke in the house. Open the windows regularly for ventilation.

4. Keep the indoor air moist. An air humidifier can be used.

5. Increase or decrease the quilt in time. Do not cover it too thickly or overly tightly. Otherwise, it will cause poor body regulation and low resistance.

6. Encourage your baby to rest. Excitement or exercise will increase cough and sputum.

7. For children with allergic cough, dust and cat and dog hair in the home will cause the child to have an allergic cough. The pillows, mattresses and quilts need to be exposed to the sun and cleaned frequently.

Some babies cough day and night, sputum in the throat can't spit up and can't swallow, how should parents help the baby to expel sputum smoothly at this time?

1. Tilt the pillow about 20-30 degrees, and lie down on the pillow with your head down and your feet high. Using gravity, the sputum in the lungs flows out automatically.

2. Let your baby sleep sideways on the pillow, either on the left or right side, with the same head and low feet. Because the body is placed in different positions, sputum accumulation in different parts of the lungs can be easily discharged.

3. Slightly bend your five fingers into an empty-handed fist shape, and gently pat the baby's front chest and side chest back, alternately on both sides. The back-slap method can promote the loosening of sputum in the baby's lungs and bronchi, and promote blood circulation in the heart and lungs, so that the disease can be cured early.

4. The sputum can be diluted by the steam rising from the hot water through the ridges of the nose for about 20 minutes each time. Parents should take good care during treatment to prevent the baby from being burned.

5. Let your baby drink plenty of water, especially cold water, which has good moisturizing and physical therapy effects on the throat. Drinking plenty of cold water can dilute the viscous secretions and easily be coughed up, which is helpful for cough and expectoration, and is helpful for the elimination of local inflammation.

Note: The baby should not do phlegm removal within 2 hours after eating the food to avoid the risk of vomiting. During the phlegm removal process, be sure to constantly observe the baby's facial expression changes. If asthma or any discomfort occurs, stop immediately.