Folk cough treatment for children after Covid-19 infection, parents should try

03/24/2022 01:41 GMT+7

Ha (Hoang Mai, Hanoi) lamented that her 3-year-old son had a cough after being infected with Covid-19. Adults cough gradually, only children cough a lot but do not help. Irritated, Ms. Ha took her son to the doctor to diagnose a sore throat, so he prescribed medicine for him to take, but it still didn’t help.

Whoever told her what medicine Ha bought for her children from cough medicine from Japan and Russia. Seeing that the child coughed, even just finished eating a bowl of porridge, just coughed and immediately vomited.

While Ms. Ha is looking for the best cough medicine for her child, her mother-in-law thinks that she must give the child lemon and peach soaked in honey or mint with alum sugar… enough cough remedies. Because it is difficult to drink, my daughter often spits it out.

Ms. Ha thinks that cough medicines that have been prepared will be better than the ones that do not have much effect. Just because of giving me what kind of cough medicine, the whole family is always at war. Mother-in-law – conflicted daughter-in-law.

According to Dr. BS Tran Anh Tuan – Head of Respiratory Department, Children’s Hospital 1, Coughing is also a beneficial reflex to protect the airways. By coughing, the baby can expel the phlegm, making the airways open and breathing easier.

In particular, because young children do not know how to spit up phlegm, coughing is even more useful. Only when children cough too much, causing bad consequences such as crying, can’t sleep, vomiting, do we use cough medicines.

When children have a cough due to Covid-19, we can completely apply this folk remedy to treat cough for children. Cough caused by Covid-19 as well as other respiratory infections, not flowers caused by Covid-19 is more severe and dangerous.

Steamed lemon basil and honey is a good cough remedy.

According to Dr. Tuan, herbal cough remedies have been used by grandparents for thousands of years, so they are “golden rulers” for Oriental medicine doctors to trust and use.

In terms of medicine, there have also been studies proving the effectiveness of these folk remedies, such as honey which has been shown to be effective in treating coughs in general and due to Covid-19 in particular. .

In the treatment of cough caused by Covid-19, many guidelines have been issued, most recently the UK guideline recommends that honey is highly effective in treating coughs caused by Covid-19, especially persistent coughs. .

However, for children under 2 years old, it is not allowed to use natural honey because it can contain many germ spores, so it is recommended to boil or use refined honey.

According to physician Bui Hong Minh – Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association, Hanoi, In Oriental medicine, there are many herbal cough remedies that are very good in treating coughs, including those caused by Covid-19.

Herbalist Minh said that you can use cough remedies such as steamed honey with lemon basil, steamed honey with kumquat juice, honey – orange – ginger – drinking warmly and sipping to help relieve cough.

Lemon basil, also known as thick leaf, is an easy-to-grow vegetable with a mild sour taste and warm properties. The common cough medicine is classified by the Ministry of Health on the list of 70 essential medicinal plants. According to scientists, the main ingredient in lemon basil is carvacrol. This substance has a strong inhibitory effect on bacteria that cause respiratory diseases.

When using, just use 5 crushed lemon basil leaves in a small bowl, mix with 3 teaspoons of honey. Next, mix well and steam for about 10 minutes to have an effective cough remedy. Drink about 2 times a day for the most effective remedy.

For children under 1 year old who cannot use honey, they can use rock sugar instead. Herbalist Minh instructed to take about 10 leaves of lemon basil and 3 blueberries, wash them, then put them in a blender and puree with a little filtered water.

Next, filter it through a sieve to get the juice. Finally, add a little rock sugar and steam for 20 minutes. Give your baby 2 to 3 times a day, about 1 teaspoon each time is also very effective.

However, these remedies are only supportive. In case the child coughs a lot with sputum and green nasal discharge, parents should let the child see a doctor for the best advice on using other drugs.

Phuong Thuy