How to deal with a child infected with a respiratory disease?

Many children develop during the recovery process

Repeated coughing, runny nose, loss of appetite for a long time,

How to choose Chinese medicine for treatment and conditioning?

After a winter respiratory infection, such as influenza, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, bacterial or other viral infections, children often have a cough in addition to a fever. After the corresponding anti-infective and antiviral treatment, cough symptoms are often left, and some children have cough and sputum symptoms that last for a long time. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this situation is that the residual evil is not exhausted in the later stage of the disease, and the righteous qi has been injured, and traditional Chinese medicine adopts the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment, which can be used to clear the remaining evil, help the righteous qi, strengthen the spleen and dissolve phlegm, and relieve cough and phlegm. Drugs for internal administration include traditional Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine prescribed according to the individual condition of the child, and external treatment methods can also be used, such as cupping, acupoint massage, etc.

In the later stage of the disease, if the cough lasts for a long time, TCM conditioning can use the method of dietary therapy. When coughing, phlegm, phlegm white and thin, you can use tangerine peel and ginger to stew pears, wash the fresh pears, do not peel them, dig out the pear core, add tangerine peel and ginger shreds in the middle of the pears, put them in a bowl and steam them through water, drink soup and eat pears. Tangerine peel has a good effect of drying and dampness and expectorant, ginger has the effect of warming the lungs and dissolving phlegm, and pear and pear peel have the effect of moistening the lungs and reducing fire. If the child has a dry cough and less phlegm, you can use lily and Chuanbei to stew pears, lily and Chuanbei have the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs. In addition, treatments such as massage and massage can also play a role.

Children with respiratory diseases

What do I need to pay attention to in home care?

In terms of living environment, parents should pay attention to temperature changes, add or remove clothes for their children in time, keep indoor ventilation, and do not smoke indoors. Try to go out as much as possible during your illness and avoid going to crowded and noisy places.

In terms of diet, it should be rich and nutritious, light and easy to digest, eat vegetables, melons and fruits appropriately, and avoid unhealthy eating patterns. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold drinks hurt the lungs", and cold food is easy to hurt the lungs, so children with cough should avoid eating ice cream, ice drinks, and too much melon and fruit food. "The lungs are moist and dry", and the lungs are more delicate, so you should also avoid hot and spicy foods, such as chili peppers, french fries, etc. In this state, the child's food must be easy to digest, try to avoid high-calorie food, and minimize the intake of desserts or drinks. Children with respiratory tract infections should be given adequate hydration and should not be completely replaced with fruit juice. Most fruits are on the cold side, and consuming too much cold fruit may make your child's cough harder to heal.

In the care of the recovery period of the disease, it is necessary to follow the same dietary principles, avoid raw and cold seafood, fatty and sweet, and do not make up too early, because too early supplementation will let the evil qi stay in the body, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

In addition, you can also use some small methods at home to promote the recovery of children's spleen and stomach function in the later stage. If the child has a bad appetite, you can use grain sprouts, malt, and hawthorn to boil water to take it appetizingly, strengthen the spleen, and promote digestion. Simple pediatric massage methods such as chiropractic pinching and kneading the Banmen acupoints can also be used to promote the recovery of children's spleen and stomach function. The positioning of the Panmen acupoint is relatively simple, at the radial edge of the heel of the thumb on the palm surface, the midpoint of the plane of this position is called the Panmen, which can promote the recovery of spleen and stomach function and promote digestion by kneading.

Traditional Chinese medicine in prevention and conditioning

Winter in children with respiratory diseases

What are the recommendations?

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a medical science that has been gradually formed and continuously enriched and developed by the people of all ethnic groups in the mainland in the course of long-term production and life and the struggle against diseases, and has unique advantages in disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. The concept of "prevention of disease, prevention of pre-existing diseases, and prevention of recurrence after illness" is a powerful weapon for traditional Chinese medicine to deal with respiratory tract infectious diseases in winter. "Prevention before illness" means that during the winter season of high incidence of respiratory infections, children should be actively prevented when they are not sick. "Prevention of pre-existing diseases" means that if the disease has symptoms and symptoms, it should be actively treated to prevent the disease from complicating and progressing to severe disease. "Prevention of recurrence after illness" means that after the disease is cured, reasonable traditional Chinese medicine conditioning should be carried out to prevent recurrence.

The prevention and conditioning of children's respiratory diseases by traditional Chinese medicine involves all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, such as dressing, in winter, according to the temperature and indoor and outdoor temperature changes, the child should be added or removed from clothing in time to avoid excessive cold, excessive heat or sweating and cold.

In terms of diet, it is necessary to eat regularly and eat a balanced diet. The weather in the northern region is cold, so you can eat warm and nutritious food appropriately in winter, such as beef, mutton, fish, etc., but do not eat too much to avoid food accumulation. In winter, the climate is dry, so you can eat some foods such as white radish, lotus root, pear, lily, white fungus and other foods that moisten the lungs. In winter, you should pay attention to going to bed early, ensure adequate sleep, and be active appropriately.

Pediatric acupressure massage can also be carried out at ordinary times, such as tonifying the spleen meridian, tonifying the lung meridian, kneading the banmen, rubbing the feet for three miles, pushing on the three passes, pinching the chiropractic, etc., to strengthen the lungs and spleen and prevent respiratory tract infections. The spleen meridian is from the fingertip on the inside of the index finger to the root of the finger, which can be dipped in talcum powder and pushed from the outside to the inside. The tonifying lung meridian is pushed from the tip of the ring finger to the root of the finger. Push up the three levels, which is a straight line between the wrist and the elbow on the inside of the arm, from the outside to the inside.

Source: Health China WeChat public account

Editor: Li Tuo

Process Editor: Guo Dan