What should children pay attention to in their diet for pneumonia? Recommended dietary treatment methods for children with pneumonia

Pneumonia in children is a disease that many people know as cough and asthma. The cause of this disease is phlegm heat inside and wind heat or cold outside, which causes the lung qi of children to fail to descend and become ill. After suffering from this disease, what needs to be paid attention to is diet therapy. What needs special attention in life is diet. At this time, a reasonable diet is still helpful in alleviating the harm of the disease. Improper diet will aggravate the condition.

1. Dietary recommendations

1. Children with pneumonia should replenish the water and nutrients needed by the body in a timely manner.

2. Eat a light, easily digestible diet and supplement with high-quality protein. Children with pneumonia often have high fever, poor appetite, and are unwilling to eat, so the diet should be light, easily digestible, and ensure a certain amount of high-quality protein.

3. Diet for patients with fever: liquid diet (such as human milk, cow's milk, rice soup, egg drop soup, beef soup, vegetable soup, fruit juice, etc.);

4. Diet for patients after fever subsides: Semi-liquid food (such as porridge, noodles, cakes and the like) can be added. Because children with pneumonia breathe more frequently and have fever, the evaporation of water is more than usual, so it is necessary to supplement with an appropriate amount of sugar and salt water.

2. Avoid eating

Pediatric pneumonia harms the health of many children. In our daily life, we must pay attention to careful care. There are some foods that children with pneumonia cannot eat.

1. Polysaccharide foods

Sugar is a calorie supplement, but it is a taboo food for children with pneumonia. It has a simple function and basically does not contain other nutrients. If children with pneumonia eat more sugar, the bactericidal effect of white blood cells in the body will be inhibited. The more sugar is consumed, the more obvious the inhibition will be, which will aggravate the condition.

2. Spicy food

Spicy food can aggravate pneumonia in children, so patients should avoid eating it. Spicy food can easily turn into heat and damage body fluids, so children with pneumonia should not add chili oil, pepper or spicy condiments to their diet.

3. Greasy and heavy taste

Foods like cod liver oil, crab roe, pine egg yolk, crucian carp roe, etc. are all greasy foods. If eaten by children with pneumonia, it will affect the digestive function, and the necessary nutrients cannot be replenished in time, resulting in reduced resistance to disease.

3. Diet therapy

1. Radish and pork ribs soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of ribs, 1, 250 grams of radish, a little ginger and salt.

Usage: Cook and eat, 1 small bowl each time, twice a day.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, relieves qi and relieves cough, and promotes diuresis and sweating.

Indications: Patients who have just recovered from pneumonia and suffer from cough, asthma, weakness, spontaneous sweating, and cold limbs.

Note: This dietary therapy can be taken during the child's illness and has a certain auxiliary effect on pediatric pneumonia.

2. Peanut, yam and coix seed porridge

Ingredients: 250 grams of peanut kernels, 50 grams of coix seeds, 50 grams of yam, and 50 grams of polished rice.

Usage: Add peanuts, coix seeds, yam and glutinous rice, add appropriate amount of water and cook until the porridge is thick. Take 1 small bowl twice a day.

Efficacy: Clears heat, moistens the lungs and stomach.

Indications: Children in the late stage of pneumonia, with weak body, loss of appetite, and fatigue in the limbs.

3. Ginkgo, wax gourd seeds and almond drink

Ingredients: 3 ginkgo nuts, 15 grams of wax gourd seeds, 5 grams of almonds, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Usage: Boil ginkgo nuts, wax gourd seeds and almonds in water, remove the residue, add rock sugar and mix well. Take 3 times a day, 1 small cup each time.

Efficacy: Clears the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves asthma.

Indications: lung heat, cough and asthma, fever, sweating, phlegm in the throat, and yellow and thick phlegm.

The three dietary therapies for pediatric pneumonia introduced above are helpful in alleviating the condition. In addition, parents of children with pneumonia must pay attention to care. They should let the children rest more in their lives. In addition to paying attention to diet, they also need to closely observe the children's condition. If there is severe wheezing, it may indicate that the condition is getting worse and they need to seek medical treatment in time. In addition, they must eat light and easily digestible food, and it is best to eat more liquid food.