Diet for children with congenital heart disease
Feeding a baby with congenital heart disease may be a little more difficult than a normal baby and they may need a special diet or different feeding methods, here are our feeding strategies for moms and dads:
Common feeding problems.
1.Difficulty in getting enough adequate nutrition
2.Can’t ensure safe feeding
3.Baby has no appetite
4.Difficulty in breastfeeding
Mothers and fathers should pay attention to your baby to observe
1.Is there a problem of sucking, chewing and swallowing
2.Is there always panting after eating
3.Weight gain is not obvious
4.There is always choking and coughing when eating milk or choking when swallowing
Solutions to common feeding problems
1.Difficulty in getting enough nutrients: Add high-energy nutrients to breast milk and formula, provide high-fat milk, and control the feeding time within 20 minutes with a small number of meals.
2.Can’t ensure safe feeding: master feeding skills, place baby in a comfortable feeding position to add complementary foods properly, try different feeding tools, bottles, spoons.
3.Baby has no appetite: develop incentives to encourage your baby to eat develop good eating habits, grasp the signal of when your baby will eat praise often and caress your baby.
4.Breastfeeding is difficult: help your baby to hold the nipple, mom can try a different feeding position or switch to bottle feeding.
5.If your baby can already choose his own food, it is more important to pay attention to the balanced nutrition of food.
There are no major taboos in food selection, protein, vitamins and minerals are all needed for your baby’s growth and development. (See diet guide for details)
7, food should be light and easy to digest, not too hard and too spicy, using a small number of meals, so that it is easy for your baby’s digestion and absorption.
8.Choose your baby’s favorite food under the premise of balanced food, cooked to his favorite taste.
9.Mom and dad should also pay attention to good eating habits, because your eating preferences will also affect your baby!
If your baby needs to take some oral medication for a long time, the following are your little alarm clock;
1.To assist your baby to take the medication regularly and quantitatively, it is important to insist, if the medication runs out, you must consult your doctor, not to stop the medication or reduce the dosage of the medication on your own.
2, your baby if accompanied by heart failure and edema, then to adhere to a low salt or salt-free lighter diet.
3.If your baby needs digoxin, then you should be careful, if he vomits after taking the drug, please do not take it again, so as not to change the single dose and prevent digoxin poisoning.
4, oral diuretics such as tachyphylaxis, etc., the number of times your baby urinates increases, mom and dad must pay attention if your baby suddenly urinates less and his lips are dry, then he may have become dehydrated, please be sure to consult your doctor.