Choice of staple food for children with diarrhea

For adults, the illness of children is the most troublesome and the most concerned issue for adults. Children's resistance is relatively weak. If they eat the wrong food by mistake, they will suffer from diarrhea. There are different dietary treatments for different types of diarrhea. So what are the dietary treatments for diarrhea?

【Food Injury Type】

Symptoms include abdominal distension and pain, crying and making noise before diarrhea, sour and smelly stools with undigested milk lumps, poor appetite, and bad breath. It is more common in children with autumn diarrhea accompanied by indigestion.

You can eat:

1. Fried rice porridge: Take 50 grams of japonica rice, put it in an iron pan and dry-fry until the aroma comes out, then add appropriate amount of water and boil it into soup.

2. Apple soup: Take an apple, wash it, and add the skin.

【Wet heat type】

The symptoms are egg drop soup-like stool with a small amount of mucus, accompanied by fever, dry mouth, dark yellow urine and less urine. This type of diarrhea is more common in autumn.

You can eat:

1. Pueraria lobata and Scutellaria baicalensis porridge: The method is: add 10g Pueraria lobata and 10g Scutellaria baicalensis, boil them in water, remove the residue, take the juice and add 50g glutinous rice, cook porridge, add a little brown sugar and take it.

2. Black plum and plantain soup: Method: add 10 black plums, 30g plantain, 500ml water, boil the soup, add brown sugar as needed, and drink it instead of tea.

【Spleen deficiency type】

Diarrhea lasts for a long time and does not heal, with loose stools, white milky lumps, loss of appetite, weight loss and fatigue. This is more common in the late stage of autumn diarrhea or in patients with long-term diarrhea that does not heal.

You can eat:

1. Yam and Egg Yolk Porridge: Method: Take 500g of yam, peel and mash it, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with high heat first, then simmer for 10 minutes, then add 2 egg yolks and simmer for another 3 minutes. Eat it in several times.

2. Eight Treasure Porridge: The method is: take 10g each of Poria cocos, Pseudostellaria pseudoginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, and lentils, add water to boil, remove the residue and take the juice, add 10g each of Euryale ferox, yam, lotus seed, and fried Coix seed, 50g of glutinous rice, and cook porridge for consumption.

3. Lentil, Poria, and Pomegranate Soup: Take 30g of lentils, 50g of Poria, 12g of Plantago seeds wrapped in cloth, and 15g of Ligusticum wallichii. Put the above four ingredients into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and boil the soup for consumption. Chop it into pieces, add 250ml of water and a small amount of salt, and boil the soup instead of tea. Children over 1 year old can eat applesauce.

【Wind-cold type】

Diarrhea is characterized by thin, foamy stools that are light in color and have little odor, accompanied by bowel sounds and abdominal pain. It is more common in the early stages of autumn diarrhea.

You can eat:

1. Ginger tea: The method is: take 10 grams of ginger, 3 grams of green tea, add 150 ml of water, boil, add a little brown sugar, and drink.

2. Lentil, dried ginger and young radish drink: Method: Take 10 grams of lentils, 3 grams of dried ginger and 6 grams of young radish. Add appropriate amount of water to boil. After boiling, add a little brown sugar and boil for another 3 minutes. Take the juice and drink it several times.

The above are some dietary methods for treating diarrhea in children. If the child has severe diarrhea, he should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time to avoid worsening of the condition. The above dietary therapy methods are for reference only. If you want to use the above dietary therapy for treatment, you should first consult a doctor to ensure whether it is applicable.