Cough is a common symptom which takes few days up to a month or more to recover depends on the conditions. In addition to physical condition, environmental factor, cough is closely related to dietary intake. Control your dietary during healing period may achieve multiplier effect.
1. Avoid cold food and drinks
Avoid cold food and drinks when coughing. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, when the body affected by the cold, may irritate the lung and cough mostly caused by lung disease. Consuming cold food or beverages at this moment may easily cause lung obstruction, worsen the symptoms and lack of healing. Children or adults cough mostly accompanied by phlegm and sputum amount related to spleen. Excessive consumption of cold food may affect spleen and resulting decreased in spleen function.
2. Avoid fat-sweet food
Cough mostly caused by heat in lung, especially in children. Excessive intake of fat-sweet food will produce body heat, aggravate cough, viscous sputum and difficult to expectorate. Besides that, reduce intake of oily or fried food. Oily or fried food may increase burden of the stomach, produce sputum and drag the healing process.
3. Avoid seafood especially prawn and crab
Cough patient who consume fishy food may aggravate the condition due to fishy smell stimulate the respiratory tract and fish protein allergies. Those who allergies to some of the fish or egg protein should avoid such food.
4. Avoid sweet-sour food
Acidic food may convergence sputum, difficult to expectorate and cause persistent coughing. Consuming sweet food may also cause inflammation difficult to heal.
5. Avoid citrus food
Many people believe that citrus helps in relieving cough and reducing sputum. In fact, orange peel do have the effect of relieving cough and reducing sputum but the orange meat produce heat and generating sputum. Citrus fruits include grapefruit, tangerine, orange and so on.
6. Avoid salty food
Salty food induce cough and aggravate cough.
7. Avoid peanuts, chocolate etc.
The above food contains fat and may produce sputum after intake and aggravate cough.
8. Avoid supplements
Many parents give their children supplement due to weak constitution, but children should stop consuming such supplements when coughing to avoid healing difficulty.
咳嗽是一种常见的症状，轻则几天即愈，重则可达一个月以上，方能痊愈。因此要咳嗽受到控制，除了自身的体质，环境因素，还与我们的饮食有密切的关系。在咳嗽未愈期间注意饮食调理，可以收到事半功倍的效果。
一、忌寒凉食物
咳嗽时不宜吃冷饮或冰冻饮料。中医认为身体一旦受了寒，就会伤及人体的肺脏，而咳嗽大多是因肺部疾患引起的。此时如果再吃冷饮，就容易造成肺气闭塞，症状加重，日久不愈。不论是儿童还是成人，咳嗽多会伴有痰，痰的多少又跟脾有关。过多进食寒凉食物，还会伤及脾胃，造成脾的功能下降。
二、忌肥甘厚味
咳嗽其中一个因素是肺热引起，儿童尤其如此。日常饮食中多吃肥甘厚味会产生内热，加重咳嗽，且痰多粘稠，不易咳出。此外，油炸食物也不宜多吃。因为油炸食品会加重胃肠负担，滋生痰液，使咳嗽难以痊愈。
三、忌鱼腥虾蟹
咳嗽患者在进食鱼腥类食品后咳嗽会加重，这与腥味刺激呼吸管道和对鱼虾食品的蛋白过敏有关。尤其是对某些鱼、蛋过敏的成人或儿童更应注意避免这类食物。
四、忌甜酸食物
酸食会敛痰，使痰不易咳出，导致咳嗽难愈。多吃甜食会使炎症难以痊愈。
五、忌食用橘子类水果
许多人认为橘子是止咳化痰的，其实，橘皮确有止咳化痰的功效，但橘肉反而会生热生痰。橘子类水果包括了柚子、桔子、柑、橙等。
六、忌吃得太咸
吃得太咸易诱发咳嗽或使咳嗽加重。
七、忌花生、瓜子、巧克力等
上述食品含油脂较多，食后易滋生痰液，使咳嗽加重。
八、忌食用补品
不少家长会给体质虚弱的孩子服用补品，但孩子咳嗽未愈时应停服补品，以免使咳嗽难愈。
Source 资料源自：
http://www.sarawakmethodist.org/weilibao/weilibao_view.php?pno=742&wid=2688
http://www.chan120.com/News/2011/11/01/094524349.html
http://www.chan120.com/News/2011/11/01/094524349.html
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