Pediatric pneumonia is a common respiratory disease in children, and parents need to take good care of their child’s life and diet while actively treating him or her. So what are the best dietary care methods? The following is an introduction to the dietary care of pediatric pneumonia for your reference.
How to take care of pediatric pneumonia
1. Fresh environment
A quiet, clean environment with the right temperature and humidity is conducive to the recovery of a child with pediatric pneumonia. The room temperature should be kept at about 20°C and the relative humidity 55-65% to prevent respiratory secretions from drying out and not easily coughed up and to prevent cross infection. The baby should not stay indoors with too many people, and visitors should not stay too long. The room should be ventilated regularly to make the air circulate, but the wind through the room should be avoided to facilitate the recovery of pneumonia.
2. Hydration
Drinking more water can facilitate the discharge of phlegm and the normal functioning of the organism. Therefore, mothers should encourage their children to drink more water, and help and guide parents to pat their children’s backs and turn them over to promote the discharge of phlegm. In addition, breastfeeding should be done as much as possible. If artificial feeding is done, the amount and consistency of milk should be decided according to the digestive function and condition of the child, and skim milk should be given to those with diarrhea. For critically ill children who cannot eat, give intravenous fluids to replenish heat and water.
3.Smooth breathing
When children suffer from pneumonia, they are restricted and have varying degrees of oxygen deprivation in their bodies. Therefore, mothers should promptly remove nasal scabs, nasal secretions and respiratory phlegm so as to improve the ventilation function, increase alveolar ventilation and correct hypoxia.
4.Oral care
Patients with pneumonia who have a lot of sputum should try to cough up the sputum to prevent poor sputum discharge from affecting pneumonia recovery. If the condition allows, parents should often pick up their children and gently pat their backs, and bedridden children should turn over regularly, which can prevent lung stasis and also make sputum easy to cough up, which helps recovery.
5.Physical exercise
Mothers can often take their babies to outdoor activities, but make sure that the air is fresh in the activity place. Let your baby get more sunlight, improve his ability to adapt to temperature changes, and increase or decrease his clothes with the weather changes. Feed your baby properly, add complementary foods in time, do not be partial or picky, develop good eating habits, get vaccinations on time, and go to public places less often to avoid cross-infection when you have an influenza.
The diet of pediatric pneumonia is contraindicated
1.Cold food
The actual pneumonia is a very important part of the pneumonia process. This is because eating them can easily lead to the body’s Yang Qi, and Yang Qi is damaged is unable to resist the evil, the disease is difficult to heal, so should not eat, especially for children with digestive tract symptoms should be contraindicated.
2.Sugar-rich food
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. It is purely functional and contains essentially no other nutrients. If a pediatric pneumonia patient eats more sugar, the bactericidal effect of the body’s white blood cells will be inhibited, and the more you eat, the more obvious the inhibition will be, and aggravate the disease.
3, spicy food
The spicy food can aggravate pediatric pneumonia, so patients should avoid eating it. The actual pneumonia is a very good way to get the most out of your pneumonia, so you should not add spicy oils, peppers and spicy condiments to your diet.
4. greasy and thick taste
The actual pneumonia is a very important part of the pneumonia process.
5. Acidic drugs and foods
Sweet and sour food, babies love to eat! However, parents should be aware that if their baby has pediatric pneumonia, they should stop eating acidic drugs and foods such as schisandra, umeboshi, vitamin C, sour fruits, oranges, vinegar and other foods, which will be able to converge, can be astringent, and hinder sweating out the table.