Dietary Therapy for Pediatric Pneumonia
Pneumonia is one of the most common respiratory diseases in children, typically presenting with high fever, coughing, and flaring nostrils. Some may also experience vomiting, convulsions, runny nose, and phlegm production. It commonly occurs during winter and spring, mainly triggered by cold exposure or catching a cold.
1. 5 segments of pomelo flesh, 60g dried Chinese cabbage, 15g astragalus root, 250g lean pork. Simmer all together into a soup, consume daily in two doses. Helps tonify qi, nourish yin, moisten lungs, and resolve phlegm.
2. 50g lily bulbs, 200g coix seed. Add 5 bowls of water, decoct down to 3 bowls, divide into three portions, consume daily.
3. 30g walnut kernels, 30g rock sugar, 150g pear. Grind all ingredients finely, add water and boil. Take 1 spoonful each time, three times daily.
4. 10g apricot kernels (remove skin and tip, crush), 1–2 pears,适量 rock sugar. Cut pears, remove core, cook with apricot kernels until soft, add rock sugar, serve as tea.
5. 10g codonopsis root, 15g jujube (pits removed), 150g glutinous rice. Add water, cook into porridge, sweeten with rock sugar, consume.
6. 10g apricot kernels (skin and tip removed), grind into paste, filter juice. Mix with 30g rice, add water, cook into porridge.
Remember: During fever, diet should be light and easily digestible, preferably fluid or semi-fluid foods such as congee, rice flour, lotus root starch, fruit juices, mung bean soup. Drink plenty of water and maintain smooth bowel movements.