After the baby is sick, the digestive function will inevitably be affected, and the appetite will inevitably decline.
At this time, parents must not be too hasty. They should arrange and adjust the diet plan reasonably according to the child's illness and physical condition.
In the face of sick children, inexperienced young parents often pay attention to one thing and lose sight of another. Some only pay attention to children's medication and proper rest, but ignore the nutrition distribution during illness; Although some people are aware of the importance of children's diet conditioning, they have no idea and blindly give supplements to babies with poor appetite.
In fact, after the baby is sick, the digestive function will inevitably be affected, and the appetite will inevitably decline. At this time, parents must not be too hasty. They should arrange and adjust the diet plan reasonably according to the child's illness and physical condition. Scientific and reasonable nutrition distribution not only helps to promote the recovery of children's diseases, but also promotes their weight recovery and effectively prevents malnutrition. On the contrary, it is harmful to health. The following lists several common infant respiratory and digestive diseases and their dietary precautions for reference.
generate heat
From a medical point of view, a child's fever is just a symptom. Cold, pharyngitis, pneumonia, tonsillitis and other respiratory diseases can cause high fever.
When a child has a fever, his metabolism is accelerated, and a lot of salt and water are lost in his body. So the primary problem at this time is not to supplement nutrition but to supplement water. Replenishing the lost water in time will not only help to reduce fever, but also help to excrete metabolites and toxins in the body and shorten the recovery time.
Dietary principle
After the child has a fever, saliva secretion is reduced, gastrointestinal activity is weakened, and appetite is lost. At this time, it is forbidden to force children to eat. Eating too much may lead to indigestion. During this period, the diet should follow the principle of lightness and digestibility.
Diet plan
Parents should make timely and appropriate dietary adjustments according to the development of children's disease course:
In the acute stage of illness, the child has a bad appetite and a high fever. At this time, we should give priority to liquid foods, such as rice soup, milk, fruit juice and mung bean soup.
Semi-liquid food, such as nutritious rice flour, minced meat porridge, noodle soup, egg soup, etc. Can be prepared during the recovery period or fever reduction period;
After the fever has gone down, you can eat some digestible dishes such as porridge, noodles and fresh vegetables.
Dietary taboo
Some parents force their children to eat high-protein foods such as meat and eggs when they see that their children don't think about diet because of fever, for fear of affecting nutrition supply and development. I don't know that doing so often does more harm than good.
Fever is a systemic reaction, characterized by increased activity of sympathetic nervous system. In this state, the digestion and absorption of food will be greatly affected, especially indigestible meat and fishy food. If these things stay in the gastrointestinal tract for a long time, they will ferment, deteriorate and even cause poisoning. So eat less or not eat greasy food.
cough
Many parents have a headache for their baby's persistent cough. Give children cough medicine and worry about its side effects. If you don't take medicine, you are worried that it will worsen your condition and become pharyngitis or pneumonia. In fact, if parents pay attention to diet conditioning during their children's cough, they will often achieve unexpected results.
Dietary principle
Adequate water helps to dilute sputum and make it easy to cough up, so children who cough should also pay attention to supplementing water. In addition, the gastrointestinal function is weak when the child coughs, and the diet during this time should be as light as possible.
Dietary taboo
Don't eat greasy, salty and sweet food, so as not to increase the burden on the stomach.
Frozen and spicy food can irritate the throat and make the cough worse; Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up phlegm. Therefore, children with cough should avoid eating cold, sour and spicy food.
Oily foods are easy to breed phlegm, and peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate and other foods should be eaten less.
eczema
Infantile eczema, also known as tinea lactis, is a common allergic skin disease of newborns and infants, which mostly occurs in infants under two years old.
Dietary principle
Most foods containing protein can cause skin allergy and eczema in infants, such as milk, eggs, fish, meat, shrimp and crab.
Diet plan
It is advisable to eat light, digestible foods rich in vitamins and minerals, such as green leafy vegetable juice, carrot water, fresh fruit juice, tomato juice, vegetable puree and fruit puree.
Dietary taboo
Children should avoid eating fish, shrimp, crabs and other seafood and irritating foods.
diarrhea
Diarrhea is a common digestive system disease of young children, mostly in summer. It is very important for children with diarrhea to take medicine in time and adjust their diet accordingly.
Dietary principle
Nursing children with diarrhea should follow the principle of small amount and multiple meals, prevent dehydration and suspend taboo food. If conditions permit, you can add a meal to your child every day within half a month after diarrhea stops to make up for the nutrition lost during diarrhea.
Diet plan
When children have diarrhea, first give them enough liquid to prevent dehydration. Children under two years old can be supplemented with 50 ~ 100 ml oral rehydration after each diarrhea, and the daily intake is not less than 500ml；; Children over two years old should drink as much as possible, more than 1000 ml per day. If you don't go to the hospital to get prescription oral liquid, parents can also make it at home: add 20 grams of sugar and 1.75 grams of salt to 500 ml of boiled water or rice soup.
Due to the disorder of gastrointestinal digestive function in children with diarrhea, in order to reduce gastrointestinal pressure, it is necessary to appropriately reduce the amount of food intake and feeding times. It is advisable to eat light and digestible foods, such as noodle soup, rice porridge, carrot soup and apple puree.
Dietary taboo
Because the intestinal peristalsis is enhanced during diarrhea, flatulence often aggravates diarrhea, so milk, sweets, beans, bean products and other foods that should cause flatulence should not be eaten.
Diarrhea patients' intestines are very destructive, so we should try to reduce the intake of protein, such as eggs, milk, meat, etc.
Because fruits rich in cellulose can promote intestinal peristalsis and aggravate diarrhea, you should avoid eating such fruits and vegetables when you are sick, such as pineapple, watermelon, cabbage, pepper, leek and sweet potato. In order to avoid increasing the burden on the stomach, you should also avoid eating cold and greasy food.
Nutrition is an independent discipline, and different diseases have their own dietary distribution principles. It is difficult for us to ask parents to reach the level of nutritionists, but at least we should be aware of the importance of nutrition distribution to children and actively cooperate with doctors and nutritionists to formulate nutrition distribution plans for children.
Although the dietary distribution varies greatly due to different diseases, experts believe that there are still rules to follow in the care of sick children. The commonness of children is low immunity and poor appetite. Therefore, the diet should be light and soft, and foods rich in nutrition and easy to digest should be chosen, with less sugar and less greasy. Eat naturally and don't force children to avoid indigestion.
In the final analysis, parents should take precautions, pay attention to their children's daily physical exercise, provide a reasonable diet, prevent malnutrition and eating disorders, provide adequate vitamins and necessary protein, ensure their children's normal nutrition and development, enhance their resistance and prevent the invasion of pathogenic bacteria.