What to do if a child has a persistent cough

Parents should not be too anxious if their young children have a long-term cough. At this time, they cannot just be given some cough suppressants. These medicines can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Therefore, the most important thing is to adjust their diet. You can make some pear soup for them, which can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, so that their lungs will not be infected again.

1. Polygonatum odoratum porridge: 15g of fresh polygonatum odoratum, double the amount, 50g of polished rice. Usage: Wash and chop the Polygonatum odoratum, add water to boil it into soup, extract the juice and remove the residue, and use the Polygonatum odoratum juice to cook porridge (add water when cooking porridge). Take warm twice a day, morning and evening. 1 week is 1 course of treatment, stop 1 week and then start the second course of treatment. 2. Lily pear candy: 10g lily (fresh lily is better, double the amount), 1 pear, 15g sugar. Wash the lilies and slice the pears. Mix lily, pear and sugar in a bowl, steam until cooked, let cool and take all at once. Twice a day.

3. Peanuts and rock sugar: 100-150g peanuts and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the peanuts, add rock sugar and water and cook until done. Eat the peanuts and drink the soup, divided into three times a day.

4. Tremella soup: 5g Tremella, 1 egg, 60g rock sugar, and appropriate amount of lard. Soak the white fungus in warm water for about 30 minutes. After it is fully expanded, remove impurities, wash and cut into slices. Then add appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Then simmer for another 2 hours over low heat until the white fungus is cooked. Add rock sugar to water and boil until melted, beat in eggs, add a little water and stir well, put into a pot and boil while stirring. Pour the egg and sugar juice into the white fungus pot and add a little lard when removing from the pot.

5. Sugarcane porridge: some fresh sugarcane, 50g polished rice. Add 400ml of polished japonica rice and cook it into porridge. Then wash and chop fresh sugarcane, squeeze out about 150ml of juice, add it to the porridge and serve. Take twice a day, morning and evening.

6. Garlic and sugar juice: 15g garlic, 30g sugar. Peel the garlic, mash it, add sugar and about 500ml of boiling water, soak for 5 hours and then take it. Take 1 dose daily, divided into 3 times, for 4 to 5 days.

7. Pine nut porridge: 20g pine nuts, 50g glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of honey. Mash the pine nuts into a paste, add 500ml of water together with the glutinous rice, and cook it over low heat until it becomes a thick porridge. Then add honey and take it warm twice a day, morning and evening.

Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang: ephedra, apricot kernel, gypsum, and licorice. It has a pungent and cool property, clears the lungs and relieves asthma. It is used for exogenous wind-heat, or wind-cold that turns into heat, with heat congested in the lungs, and symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, thirst, persistent high fever, red tongue with white or yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. It is now often used in combination with Houttuynia cordata, Scutellaria baicalensis, Fritillaria thunbergii, etc. to make a Chinese patent medicine "Children's Lung Heat Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid" to treat children's colds, lung heat, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, and relieve symptoms such as fever, coughing up yellow sputum, and sore throat.