Li Bo of Pediatrics of Traditional Chinese Medicine: What things can not be eaten when a child is sick with a cold? Parents come and find out!
The baby is sick and cold, and many mothers don't know what to give the baby to eat? What does the baby want to eat, can he eat it?
And whether you choose TCM or Western medicine, the dietary taboos in life are very important! It is also very necessary to understand clearly!
During a cold, your baby's digestive system is weakened, and some foods are not suitable for eating:
1, fish, shrimp and seafood and other hair products;
2, meaty things, will increase the baby's spleen and stomach burden;
3, fat and sweet and greasy things, easy to generate heat;
4. Raw cold and cold things, easy to cause spleen and stomach damage, aggravation of symptoms, and long-term healing;
5, if you have a fever, it is best to avoid high-protein foods, such as milk, eggs, etc.;
6, sweets, candy, cakes and the like, easy to produce phlegm;
7, indigestible food, such as meat, etc.;
8. Dried fruits with more oil and fat, such as peanuts and melon seeds;
9, sour things, such as yogurt;
10. Supplements or tonic foods.
During the baby's cold, the diet should be light, eat easy to digest food, the following principles can be referred to (unless the disease has special contraindications): liquid and semi-liquid foods should be considered first.
Whether it is a baby or an adult, during the disease, liquid food is more easily digested and absorbed than ordinary food. Small babies who have not begun to add complementary foods should drink as much milk as possible, and breast-milk mothers should avoid eating; babies in the supplementary food addition stage can drink some boiled water and rice porridge appropriately in addition to drinking milk; older children can drink some light vegetable soup in addition to the above foods.
Foods that prevent dehydration should be prioritized.
Appropriately increase the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, according to the needs of the baby to make vegetable and fruit puree or even squeezed into vegetable juice. To prevent dehydration or mild dehydration, if your baby refuses to drink boiled water, you can add some freshly squeezed juice (note, not a commercially available beverage juice!). Or add a little sugar or a trace of table salt. If you have moderate dehydration, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible, and the doctor will take the necessary means of hydration.
Give up feeding what you think is nutritious food.
When the appetite decreases due to illness, it is especially important to respect the baby's appetite. Give up giving your baby food that you think is nutritious and he doesn't want to eat, if your child is only willing to drink some milk and eat a little rice porridge.
Do not try to continue adding new complementary foods during the illness.
Babies in the stage of adding complementary foods, the digestive system function is weakened during the disease, and the body may also be in a highly sensitized state, at this time, new foods are prone to allergies and other problems.
Eat less, avoid eating plenty and eat foods that are not easily digestible.
Most diseases do not require additional supplementation with special foods, and it is time to give the digestive system a proper rest and adjustment.
Don't force your child to eat, sometimes it doesn't matter if your child is hungry
The baby will eat according to his own needs, and once the disease recovers, his appetite will naturally gradually improve. In fact, the child will make up for the "meal" missed during the illness for a period of time after the illness recovers, that is, the child will regain the nutrition that was lost before recovering from the disease.
Postscript: The most needed when the cold is water, followed by nutrients, the dietary principle at this time is first of all to supply sufficient water, followed by supplementing a large amount of vitamins, and then to supply the right amount of calories and protein, and the diet should be liquid, semi-liquid-based, recommended for the baby to drink millet porridge.
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