Patient's question:
What fruits should children eat when they have a cold and fever?Doctor's answer:
A cold and fever consume more vitamins and minerals in the body, so eating more fruits is more beneficial for speeding up recovery. Replenish body fluids. Watermelon is cold in nature and sweet in taste, with the functions of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, and promoting diuresis. Strawberries are sweet and sour, very delicious, and also have a good effect in lowering internal heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating strawberries can remove heat, clear summer heat, relieve heat, and alleviate restlessness. Pears are cool in nature and sweet in taste, which can moisten the throat, clear heat, and resolve phlegm, and have a certain auxiliary effect on cold and fever.