Dietary arrangements for children with fever

When a child has a fever, the changes in the organism are first manifested in a faster metabolism and increased consumption of nutrients and oxygen. At the same time, it affects the function of the digestive system, weakening digestion and causing loss of appetite. Secondly, the demand for water increases. Parents can promote the recovery of the body as long as the diet is reasonably arranged, and it does not necessarily care how much to eat. At this time, the principles of dietary care are: the first is to supply sufficient water; the second is to replenish a large number of vitamins and minerals; the third is to supply the right amount of heat and protein; the fourth is to liquid and semi-liquid diet. 1, fever fluid diet Milk: breastfeeding children still adhere to breastfeeding, as much as you can eat to feed as much. If the child to milk as the main food, the milk can be diluted, increase water, facilitate absorption. Add rice soup is also easy to absorb. Rice soup: use good quality rice porridge, do not add alkali to prevent the destruction of vitamins. After the porridge is ready, filter off the rice residue, add a little sugar can be eaten. Rice soup has enough water, easy to digest and absorb. Mung bean soup: the mung bean boiled, take its soup add appropriate amount of rock sugar. Mung beans have heat, detoxification, the role of heat, serving both supplemental nutrients, but also conducive to the excretion of toxins, which can help reduce fever. Watermelon juice: watermelon juice has the role of clearing heat, summer heat, diuretic, can promote the excretion of toxins. Fresh pear juice: fresh pear juice has the effect of clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough. Used for children with fever accompanied by cough. Pear into medicine, sweet and cold, have moistening lungs, clearing the heart, stopping heat cough, eliminating phlegm and so on. Raw pears can clear heat, resolve phlegm, relieve cough and produce fluid, while cooked pears can nourish lung yin. Fresh orange juice: after squeezing the juice can add appropriate amount of water and sugar. If there is no fresh orange juice can also be replaced by canned fruit juice, but its vitamin content is low, high sugar, consumption must be diluted. Lotus root powder or almond powder: It can be thin or thick depending on the child’s taste and the amount of water needed. Be careful to cook it with boiling water (before rinsing, mix it with a little cool water to make a paste) and stir it well. Milk replacing powder: similar to milk, mainly plant protein. Higher nutritional value, more easily absorbed than milk, thin, thick according to the needs of the child modulation. 2.Semi-liquid diet for fever Rice porridge: rich in nutrition. Appropriate calories. Can add sugar or a small amount of salted vegetables for flavor. Egg custard: take 1 to 2 eggs and beat them well, add the right amount of warm water, the steaming time is not too long, so that the egg custard is delicate and soft, easy to digest. Egg custard can supplement protein, and easier to digest and absorb. You can add the right amount of sesame oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, Lai Tang seasoning, to promote appetite. Noodle Soup: The noodles should be soft, rolled out thinly, cut into small pieces, and cooked for a long time to achieve the purpose of soft, rotten and easy to digest. The following points should be noted when choosing the above diets: ① Fluid diet should be used in the acute stage or high fever period. Recovery or fever can be semi-liquid diet. ② fever should not be forced to feed. Wait until the child is hungry and then eat, but pay attention to water supplementation. The child should not be forced to eat when he or she is hungry, but should be hydrated. ③ When using the above food for children under 2 years old, it should be noted whether the same food has been added before the disease, such as the food that has not been added, should not be added suddenly during the fever, so as not to cause diarrhea. 3, fever children’s dietary contraindications It is not advisable to eat more eggs Eggs are rich in protein, eat more eggs during the fever, the protein decomposition in the body produces a large number of calories, is not conducive to the recovery of the body. It is not advisable to eat more greasy food greasy food is difficult to digest, more food will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. In addition. Greasy food can help dampness love heat, so that the disease is not easy to heal. It is not advisable to eat bee’s milk, bee’s milk is beneficial to qi and tonic products, taking it during the fever is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire, hindering the recovery of the body. Should not drink tea tea contains theophylline not only has the effect of raising the body temperature. And will reduce the effect of antipyretic drugs, fever during the best to drink plain water for good. For children with fever accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, but the symptoms are mild, parents can let them take a small number of times orally homemade sugar and salt water. The ratio is 500 ml of water or rice broth with one level spoon of sugar and half a beer bottle cap of table salt. 500 ml can be given to a child of about 1 year old within 4 hours. You can also eat foods that replenish electrolytes. For example, citrus, bananas and other fruits (high in potassium and sodium), milk and soy milk (rich in calcium), rice soup or pasta (high in magnesium). Children with severe symptoms. Should be temporarily fasting. To reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Replenish water and electrolytes through intravenous fluids. Children with fever and cough, phlegm, violent cough can also cause stomach upset. Vomiting may occur if too much food is eaten. Therefore, parents should pay special attention and should not allow the child to overeat. Eat less seafood and too salty, greasy dishes, in order to prevent allergies, aggravate the symptoms. 4, in addition, the following therapeutic formula helps children to reduce fever. ① lotus leaf porridge: white rice porridge, porridge good put lotus leaf micro-cooking is eaten. ② mung bean porridge: 25 grams of mung beans, 15 grams of rice, sugar. Cook mung beans and white rice into porridge, cooked and put sugar to eat. ③ silver flower tea: silver flower 1O grams, decoction with sugar. ④ Fresh rutabaga porridge: 15 grams of fresh rutabaga, 25 grams of round-grained rice. Firstly, decoct water of rehmannia, and then put round-grained rice into the decocted water to cook porridge and eat it. ⑤ Five juice drink: pear juice, water chestnut juice, fresh rehmannia juice, maitake juice, lotus root juice and evenly cooled. It can also be stewed and served warm. In short, do not force feed the child when fever, try to replenish water. Reduce the activity of the child, more bed rest. In order to get well soon.