If the high fever is unbearable, you can use cold compresses to help lower your body temperature. So, what kind of food should a child eat when he has a fever? Let’s take a look with me below!

1. Fruits

Apple: It has the effect of regulating the intestines, and is useful for diuresis and eliminating fatigue. Very helpful.

Water chestnut: It can improve eyesight and reduce nebula, treat hemorrhoids and blood in the stool. Prevent meningitis and high blood pressure, and can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and thick phlegm.

Strawberry: sweet and sour, very delicious, and also has a good fire-reducing effect. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating strawberries can relieve internal heat, clear away heat, relieve fever and relieve troubles.

Pear: It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and reducing phlegm. It is often used for febrile disease, body fluid injury, polydip and quenching thirst, hot and dry cough, asthma and aphonia, etc.

2. Food

1. Milk. Milk can provide children with a certain amount of protein, and adding an appropriate amount of rice soup can provide some carbohydrates.

2. Rice soup. Rice soup can provide children with carbohydrates and has enough water to facilitate absorption by the stomach of sick children. Boil the rice and remove the residue to get rice soup.

3. Mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat.

4. Fresh juice. In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and diuresis; in autumn and winter, you can drink fresh pear juice, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, and removing phlegm; It has the functions of moistening, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and unblocking collaterals.

Diet precautions for fever

1. Liquid foods are generally consumed during the acute phase of illness, and semi-liquid foods are consumed during the recovery phase or fever reduction phase.

2. If a child with fever has a poor appetite, do not force him to eat to avoid stomach discomfort and vomiting after eating.

3. Be sure to replenish water.

4. During the fever period, do not suddenly add foods that the child has not eaten before to avoid causing diarrhea.