What should you pay attention to in your diet for mumps

Patients with mumps should try to eat light, easily digestible, and less irritating foods. In the early stages, they should eat liquid foods as much as possible and avoid chewing.

Patients with mumps have swollen parotid glands and difficulty chewing. Therefore, in the early stage of the disease, liquid food is mainly used to avoid chewing to avoid pain. In the early stage, rice soup, broth, milk and other foods can be eaten. After the symptoms improve, semi-liquid food can be eaten appropriately, and light, easy to digest, and less irritating food should be the main food, such as noodles, fresh vegetables, millet porridge, etc.

When the symptoms improve and you are able to chew, you can eat solid food, such as rice, fresh vegetables, beef, pork, etc. However, you should avoid eating barbecued, nut, fried food, etc., so as not to aggravate the condition.

During the entire process, you should avoid eating irritating foods, such as peppers, lemons, mustard, oranges, etc. These foods are highly irritating and will stimulate the secretion of the human parotid glands, thereby causing parotid pain, aggravating the patient's symptoms, and being detrimental to the recovery of the disease.