What should I do if I have excessive phlegm due to asthma

In fact, many people are now easily affected and troubled by asthma problems, which is not conducive to their normal daily life. Therefore, we should pay attention to scientific treatment methods, eat a light diet, avoid spicy and greasy foods, and also pay attention to preventing colds.

1. The diet should be light, soft and thin: Since the spleen and stomach functions of patients with colds are often affected, light, soft and thin foods are easy to digest and absorb, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat liquid or liquid foods such as white rice porridge, milk, cornmeal porridge, rice soup, soft noodles, egg soup, lotus root powder paste, almond powder paste, etc.

2. Drink more boiled water: People with colds often have fever and sweat, and lose a lot of water in the body. Drinking plenty of water can enhance blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and dissipate body temperature in a timely manner. Therefore, for people with colds who do not have stomach problems, drinking light green tea will have better effects. Tea has a good diuretic effect, and it also has the effects of sweating and stomachic strengthening, and can also clear away internal heat.

3. Eat more fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables can promote appetite, help digestion, replenish a large amount of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and make up for the insufficient energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. For wind-cold colds, you can eat more ginger, green onion, coriander, etc.; for wind-heat colds, you should eat more rapeseed, amaranth, water spinach, spinach, etc.; for summer-heat colds, you should eat more wild rice stem, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, etc.; when the evil heat is slightly calmer, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus root, citrus, apples, apricots, loquats, sugarcane, water chestnuts, etc.

4. Avoid irregular diet: Food, like medicine, has the properties of "four qi" and "five flavors". Different types of colds should use different foods. If you eat it casually and have an irregular diet, it will not only be detrimental to your cold, but will also make it protracted and difficult to cure. For example, if you have a cold caused by wind and cold, you should avoid eating raw or cold fruits and drinks, because the coldness of the food will cause the mucous membrane and blood vessels to contract, aggravating symptoms such as nasal congestion and sore throat. During the fever period of a wind-heat cold, you should avoid greasy, meaty, and sweet foods, because these foods can hinder the functioning of the spleen and stomach, produce phlegm and dampness, and cause coughing and sputum, which is not good for people with a cold and sluggish spleen and stomach. Therefore, you should avoid eating big fish and meat, glutinous rice sweets, and fried cakes. During the recovery period of a wind-heat cold, you should also avoid eating spicy and hot foods such as chili peppers, dog meat, and mutton, so as to avoid damaging the qi and burning the body fluids, and helping fire to produce phlegm. In addition to avoiding greasy food, people with summer-heat and dampness colds should also avoid overly salty food such as pickles and salted hairtail, because excessive salt will condense dampness and produce phlegm, which will irritate the trachea and cause the cough to worsen, which is not conducive to recovery from the cold.