How to treat dry cough in children?

No matter what kind of cough, take the initiative to let your baby drink water, and don't wait for thirst to think of drinking water. Babies can use enough water to make sticky secretions western-style and easy to cough up. At the same time, drinking water can improve blood circulation, so that the waste or toxin produced by metabolism can be quickly excreted, thus reducing the irritation to the respiratory tract.

Babies with cough mainly eat single meals, eat more fresh vegetables, and eat a little lean meat or eggs. Avoid greasy, fish and fruit, but not too much. Wind-heat cough is not suitable for eating oranges. Fasting sour food has the effect of astringent phlegm, which is not conducive to phlegm.

At home, it is necessary to open the window regularly and keep the room moderate, which is beneficial to keep the respiratory mucosa moist and the cilia on the mucosal surface swing, which is helpful to discharge sputum.

Wash your face and bathe with cold water from early autumn, or keep your skin in close contact with fresh air regularly. Different training methods, the key is perseverance. However, we should pay attention to one degree. When the cold wave comes, we should not blindly "freeze" to avoid catching cold and not exercising.

Children's respiratory system is not fully developed, so they can't cough up sputum as effectively as adults, and it is easy to retain sputum. If cough is treated with antitussive drugs, it will stop, but it will be more difficult to expectorate and block the respiratory tract after stopping cough, which will not only aggravate cough, but also easily lead to lung infection. Therefore, children's early cough should be treated with expectorants first.

Clever application of diet therapy

Steam 2-3 cloves of garlic in water, mash them, put them in a bowl, add crystal sugar and half a bowl of water, cover and steam for 15 minutes. Let the baby drink water after cooling.

Radish honey water white radish 3 ~ 5 large pieces, ginger 3 thin pieces, jujube 3 pieces. Add 3 ~ 4 bowls of water, bring to a boil, reduce the heat for about 25 ~ 30 minutes, remove the residue, add honey and bring to a boil. Warm for the baby to drink. Radish eliminates phlegm and relieves cough, ginger dispels cold, jujube and stomach. Bake oranges Bake oranges with a small fire until the orange peel turns black, so that the baby can eat warm orange meat. The orange meat is warm and has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Coriander and soybean soup: coriander 30g, soybean 10g washed. Boil soybeans in water for 15 minutes, then add coriander for 15 minutes, remove the residue and add a little salt, and give it to the baby several times a day.

Steamed pears with Fritillaria cirrhosa crystal sugar Cut pears horizontally, remove the core, add 2-3 crystal sugar and 5-6 crushed Fritillaria cirrhosa, and steam pears in a bowl for 30 minutes. Has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Wash the white radish with clear water, cut it into 4-5 pieces, put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, boil it for 5 minutes, cool it and give it to the baby. Babies under two years old have better effects.

Pear porridge: Chop three pears, add water and boil for half an hour, remove the residue to get juice, and cook porridge with appropriate amount of rice. Do not eat cold food.

3 ~ 4 water chestnuts peeled and sliced. Add a bowl of water and cook for about 5 minutes. Give the baby water, and the horseshoe can be eaten. It can clear lung heat, promote fluid production and moisten lung, and resolve phlegm.

Add 3-5 pieces of dried tangerine peel, 3-5 pieces of hawthorn and 3-4 bowls of water to boil. After boiling, warm and add a spoonful of honey. You can drink any cough./kloc-babies under 0/year old use white sugar instead of honey.