Parents of children with precocious heart disease are already very worried, but if the child with precocious heart disease is also malnourished, parents will be even more overwhelmed. Parents of children with precocious heart disease need to pay more love and patience than ordinary parents, learn more about feeding and nutrition, and find scientific ways to feed their children with precocious heart disease.
Why children with precocious heart disease are prone to malnutrition
1, left-to-right shunt type congenital heart disease in children with congenital heart disease, due to pulmonary circulation congestion leading to pulmonary hypertension, pneumonia and respiratory insufficiency, causing feeding difficulties.
2, cardiac insufficiency and venous system stasis resulting in intestinal dysfunction and impaired nutrient digestion and absorption.
3, and right-to-left shunt type congenital heart disease, due to peripheral circulation hypoxia and acidosis, affecting the body’s energy metabolism.
Home diet regimen for children with congenital heart disease
1.Provide the child with a high-calorie and high-protein diet that exceeds the conventional amount, if the child’s stomach and intestines can tolerate it. For example, for breastfed infants, formula or special breast milk additives can be added to breast milk to increase the calories to 80-90 kcal/100ml, while for non-breastfed infants, high-calorie formula with 80-100 kcal/100ml can be used for feeding.
2. Children with combined cardiac insufficiency and gastroesophageal reflux can be fed in small amounts and several times, while reducing or controlling water intake to reduce the heart volume load. For children of toddler and child age, encourage the intake of foods containing high protein, high carbohydrate and high fat, drink more milk as appropriate, and avoid or drink less non-caloric beverages.
3, there are a considerable number of children with prediabetes have small appetite, people grow thin, parents are often very anxious, do everything possible to let the child eat more, or let the child take some appetizing drugs. This is also a misconception. In fact, a child’s small appetite is largely caused by heart disease. The vast majority of children will increase their appetite, gain weight and improve their growth after their heart disease is cured
4. Before heart surgery or interventional treatment, children will not do well just by taking appetizers or eating more food. The correct approach is that the child should normally be fed with nutritious foods, such as eggs, chicken, fish, milk, lean pork, fresh vegetables, etc., and strive for earlier surgery or intervention for heart disease
5. for breast-fed infants, there are now also special formulas of high nutrients that can make the child get more nutrients without increasing the amount of milk, but this needs to be used under the guidance of a doctor
6. If the child has weak sucking or breathing difficulties, be patient in breastfeeding, and you can have small amounts of milk to avoid choking. If milk stays in the trachea, it can cause respiratory ventilation obstruction and aggravate breathing difficulties, and also predispose to tracheitis or pneumonia, and even lead to death by suffocation.
Recommended dietary regimen
1.Hawthorn and red dates soup
Take 15 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of red dates, 3 slices of ginger, add water and cook for 20 minutes.
Nutritional tips: suitable for congenital heart disease poor appetite baby.
2.Peach and red porridge
Take 10 grams of peach kernel, 3 grams of safflower, 50 grams of round-grained rice, and 12 grams of brown sugar. Boil the peach kernel and safflower with water for 20 minutes, remove the dregs and leave the juice. Then add the round-grained rice to the juice and cook the porridge for consumption.
Nutrition tip: Suitable for babies with cyanotic heart disease and accompanied by constipation.
3, carp winter melon soup.
Take 1 carp, 250 grams of winter melon, 5 green onions, a little wine and salt. Remove the carp scales and viscera, clean, slightly fried; winter melon peeled and cut into pieces, put together in a pot with water, onion, wine, salt, cook until the fish is cooked and eaten.
Nutrition tip: For babies with congenital heart disease and associated edema.
4, red dates and black fungus soup
Take 5 grams of black fungus, 12 grams of red dates and 12 grams of rock sugar. Soak the black fungus in warm water, then add the red dates and rock sugar and cook for 30 minutes.
Nutrition tip: It has the effect of tonic deficiency and siltation and is suitable for babies with congenital heart disease.