Hi Sir, My son is 6.5 years old, he often gets stomach ache with burps. He can't eat most of the vegetables and most of the food items. He eats only very few vegetables like spinach, amarnath leaves, bottle gourd, ridge gourd, carrot. If he eats peas, cucumber he gets sneezing. He can't eat guava and amla he gets green discharge from nose with cold symptoms. He can't take any dairy products, milk causes bloating curd and other milk products causes cough and throat phlegm. He is underweight. He takes junior lanzol 15 mg twice and Sucrafil 500 mg thrice when he falls sick. Please advise how to overcome these issues and help my son lead normal healthy life.

Dr. Manju KumariPediatrician4yrs exp

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Hi It seems as a parent you are suffering from lot of food fads. Cough and cold in young children are not related to food. I know that it is hard to turn around the deep seated belief that some cold food is causing him coughing and sneezing. Guava, Amla and other citrus fruits are great source of vitamin c that will protect him from seasonal cough cold. If milk cause bloating it is extremely necessary to give him other milk products viz curd, paneer, cheese etc to get adequate calcium. Get over these food fads, Give him everything to eat. He will grow out of cough, cold if he is well nourished. Even 6-7 episodes of cough cold in a year doesn't harm children in long run. But poor nutrition will definitely. If he gets sneezing, cough very frequently enough to make him feeling sick andrestrict his play, school etc then only you need to be worried. Get him to a pediatrician for evaluation to know if he has any allergies causing cough and sneezing and accordingly will be treated. Common cold is very common that's why it's named common cold. Best wishes.  

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