What foods are good for children with pneumonia?

Pneumonia in children is mainly caused by children's preference for sweet, salty, fried and other foods, which can cause indigestion. Therefore, a healthy diet is very important for children with pneumonia. This requires parents to pay close attention to their baby's diet. Let's learn about the foods that babies with pneumonia should not eat!

Six kinds of food that children with pneumonia should not eat, follow the editor to learn about it!

(1) Avoid eating polysaccharides. Sugar is a calorie supplement with a simple function and basically does not contain other nutrients. If children with pneumonia eat too much 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) Avoid high-protein diets. The main components of lean meat, fish and eggs are proteins. 1 gram of protein absorbs 18 milliliters of water in the body, and the final product of protein metabolism is urea. Children who eat more protein will excrete more urea, and every 300 milligrams of urea excreted will take away at least 20 milliliters of water. Therefore, children with high fever and dehydration should avoid high-protein diets. In the later stages of the disease, they can supplement appropriately to improve their physical fitness.

(3) Avoid spicy food. Spicy food is very irritating and can easily generate heat and damage body fluids. Therefore, chili oil, pepper and spicy condiments should not be added to the diet of children with pneumonia.

(4) Avoid abusing antipyretics. Using too much antipyretic medicine right after a fever occurs is not only harmful to the body, but may also mask the condition and delay treatment. Therefore, antipyretics should be used with caution in children with fever, and excessive use of medicine should be avoided to prevent a sudden drop in body temperature, profuse sweating, and collapse.

(5) Avoid greasy and heavy foods. Children with pneumonia often have low digestive function. If they eat greasy and heavy foods, their digestive function will be further affected, and the necessary nutrients will not be replenished in time, resulting in a decrease in disease resistance. Therefore, they should not eat cod liver oil, pine egg yolk, crab roe, phoenix tail fish, crucian carp roe, and animal offal. If they drink milk, they should remove the upper oil film, and nursing mothers should also eat less greasy food to avoid aggravating the condition.

(6) Avoid drinking tea. Children with pneumonia often have fever, so they should avoid drinking tea. Theophylline in tea can excite the central nervous system, which can keep the brain excited, speed up the pulse, and raise blood pressure. When a child has a fever, the body is in an excited stage where the positive and negative forces are fighting each other, and the pulse is fast. Drinking tea will stimulate the myocardium and increase consumption. This will not only fail to reduce fever, but will also increase body temperature and induce other diseases. In addition, the tannic acid in tea has an astringent effect. Chinese medicine believes that it is not conducive to the dissipation of evil spirits on the skin surface, and it is also not suitable for children with fever.