Early diet for children with pneumonia

What should you eat when you have pneumonia? The diet of pneumonia patients should be based on the principle of patient recovery, nutritional supplementation and increasing the body's disease resistance. You should eat easily digestible or semi-liquid food with high calories, high vitamins and high protein. Let's take a closer look at what to eat when you have pneumonia.

What to eat when you have pneumonia?

Drink more water: Severe interstitial pneumonia patients often lose water due to open mouth breathing, sweating a lot, and eating less, and their sputum becomes thick and difficult to cough up. Therefore, timely replenishment of water and increased fluid intake are very important for correcting or preventing water loss. Encourage patients to drink more water. If the patient cannot eat, intravenous fluid replacement can be used, which is conducive to diluting sputum. Patients with heart failure should drink water in moderation.

Pear: Pear has the functions of moistening the lungs and clearing away heat, eliminating phlegm and reducing fire, clearing the stomach and purging heat, nourishing yin and promoting fluid, nourishing the kidney and replenishing deficiency, and moistening the intestines and relieving constipation. It has a unique and obvious effect in treating cough and sputum caused by lung diseases. The famous "Pear Paste Candy" is a cough medicine made with sweet pear as the main raw material.

Apples: Apples are also good for the lungs. Eating five or more apples a week can improve your respiratory system and lung function. And eating an apple a day can make you less likely to get sick. Apples contain a lot of flavonoid antioxidants called quercetin, which can protect the lungs from the harmful effects of pollution and smoking. Quercetin is also found in onions, tea and red wine.

Honey: Modern medicine has proven that honey is effective for neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary artery sclerosis, lung disease, etc. Taking honey regularly in autumn is not only beneficial to the recovery of pneumonia, but also can prevent the damage of autumn dryness to the human body and play a role in moistening and nourishing the lungs.

Some Chinese herbs can be used as auxiliary treatments: for example, Cordyceps sinensis has nourishing, immunomodulatory, antibacterial, and sedative effects, which can effectively improve the body's immune function, enhance the body's ability to resist foreign virus invasion, and prevent recurrence.

The above is an introduction to what to eat when you have pneumonia. Of course, although the above foods have certain benefits for pneumonia, you should also pay attention to eating them in moderation. In addition, you should also eat a reasonable diet based on your own specific situation, or follow the doctor's advice.