In the season when colds are common, what should babies eat to help improve their resistance? Some foods have the effects of clearing heat, moistening the throat, dispersing stasis and reducing swelling, and promoting bowel movements. Feeding your baby more of the following foods can enhance the body's ability to prevent and fight diseases:
Recommended Food: Rapeseed
Rapeseed, especially early spring rapeseed, is mild in nature and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It can prevent and treat diseases such as angular stomatitis, oral ulcers, and gum bleeding that are prone to occur in spring.
Recommended Food: Shepherd's Purse
It is best to buy shepherd's purse from a regular supermarket. In spring, you can often make shepherd's purse porridge for your baby, or stir-fry it with eggs, braise it with dried tofu, or make shepherd's purse spring rolls, wontons, and shredded pork soup. Not only can it supplement rich nutrition, but it can also prevent and treat spring infectious diseases such as measles and meningitis, as well as respiratory infections.
Recommended Food: Spinach
Spring spinach is tender and fresh, with a cool nature that promotes bowel movements. Regular consumption of spinach by babies can not only prevent anemia, cheilitis, glossitis, oral ulcers, and constipation, but also protect the health of the skin and eyes. A reminder: after washing fresh spinach, it is best to blanch it in boiling water first before cooking it. In addition, spinach is not suitable for babies when they have diarrhea.
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Recommended Food: Celery
Fresh and tender celery has the effects of clearing heat, relieving coughs, and promoting bowel movements. Eating celery often in spring can enhance your baby's bone development and prevent rickets and constipation. Mashing celery and applying it with tea oil to the parotid area can treat mumps, which is common in spring.
Recommended Food: Scallion
Scallions contain a variety of nutrients and have many benefits for the human body. In addition to containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, carotene, and vitamins A, B, C, as well as minerals such as iron, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, scallions also contain volatile oil (the main component of which is allicin), also known as phytoncide, which has strong bactericidal or inhibitory effects on bacteria and viruses. The inhibitory effect on Shigella and fungi is particularly significant. In addition, scallions can induce sweating to reduce fever, promote urination, invigorate the stomach, reduce phlegm, and promote the secretion of digestive juices. Therefore, feeding your baby green onions or using them as a seasoning can not only add nutrition and increase appetite, but also inhibit bacteria.
Recommended Food: Honey Water
According to traditional Chinese medicine theory: windy weather is prone to dryness. When external pathogens of wind and dryness invade the body, they can easily turn into heat, often manifesting as a dry throat, thirst, cough, and constipation. Those with weak constitutions may also be infected by viruses, leading to seasonal infectious diseases such as hepatitis and tuberculosis. Honey has the effects of moistening the intestines to relieve constipation, moistening the lungs to relieve coughs, replenishing qi and harmonizing the middle, and detoxifying. Giving your baby a cup of honey water every day is beneficial for their healthy development.
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