Dietary taboos for children with scarlet fever include avoiding foods that are too sweet, too salty, coarse fiber and other foods that are difficult to swallow, and also avoiding spicy, fried and greasy foods. 1. Avoid foods that are too sweet and salty: sweets such as candies and cakes will aggravate symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion and throat discomfort. Too salty foods such as pickles, bacon and cured meat will stimulate the respiratory tract, increase secretions and aggravate respiratory symptoms. 2. Avoid coarse fiber and other difficult to swallow food: scarlet fever patients with red, swollen and painful throat, swallowing food is difficult, and high fever will weaken the digestive ability of the stomach and intestines, should be avoided or difficult to swallow vegetables and fruits, such as bamboo shoots, leeks, celery and so on. 3. Avoid spicy, greasy and fried food: Scarlet fever patients should eat light and easy to digest food. Spicy, greasy and fried food is very irritating to the respiratory tract, so pepper, French fries, hot and sour fish, fried chicken, spicy hot pot, spicy noodles and other foods should be avoided. Children with scarlet fever should eat a light diet, consume easy-to-digest, semi-liquid food to supplement nutrition, and should cooperate with the doctor for hospitalization and standardize the use of medication under the doctor’s guidance.