Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chickenpox is caused by damp-heat stagnation and exogenous pathogenic virus in the body, so it is not necessary to strengthen nutrition in particular. The key to nursing chickenpox children is diet therapy. The most obvious feature of dietotherapy is that it has no toxic and side effects on human body and can be eaten for a long time. It is the first choice for conditioning the body, especially suitable for the physical conditioning of infants.
First, what is good for children to eat chicken pox?
1. Choose foods with the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, such as spinach, amaranth, shepherd's purse, wax gourd, watermelon, soybean, black bean, adzuki bean, mung bean, broad bean, bamboo shoot, lettuce, Zizania latifolia, Malan, gourd, grape, coix seed, etc.
2. Replenish water: During chickenpox, sick children may have dry stools due to fever. At this time, it is necessary to replenish enough water, drink more water and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon juice, fresh pear juice, fresh orange juice and tomato juice.
3, eat more foods rich in crude fiber: eat more leafy vegetables, such as cabbage, celery, spinach, bean sprouts, leafy vegetables contain more crude fiber, which helps to clear the accumulated heat in the body and pass the stool. You can also eat melon, cucumber and so on.
Attachment: recipes for preventing and treating chickenpox
1, bamboo shoots and crucian carp soup
Ingredients: 50g fresh bamboo shoots, crucian carp 1 strip (about 250g), a little salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, ginger and onion.
Method: shell fresh bamboo shoots, wash them and slice them; Crucian carp, descaling, gill and viscera, washing. Put the wok on fire, add appropriate amount of water, add crucian carp, bamboo shoots, Jiang Mo, chopped green onion and cooking wine, and cook until the fish and bamboo shoots are cooked, then season with refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and serve.
Function: This soup has the effects of benefiting qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is suitable for chickenpox.
2, mung bean seaweed soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of mung bean, 30 grams of kelp and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Method: Wash mung beans; Kelp, washed and cut into small pieces. Put the pot on the fire, put kelp, mung beans and appropriate amount of water into the sea, first boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire until it is cooked, and add brown sugar to boil it.
Function: Kelp and mung bean with heat-clearing and detoxicating functions are used as soup to induce diuresis, clear away heat and detoxify, and can be used to treat chickenpox in children.
3. Coriander soup
Ingredients: fresh coriander150g, dried chestnut150g, fresh carrot 20g, fresh water chestnut100g, a little salt and monosodium glutamate each.
Method: firstly, clean coriander and chop it; Dried chestnuts, peeled; Wash carrots and water chestnuts separately and chop them. Set fire in an enamel pot or casserole, add appropriate amount of water, add chestnut kernel, minced water chestnut and minced carrot, bring to a boil with strong fire, then simmer until the chestnut kernel is cooked, add coriander, add a little refined salt and monosodium glutamate, take 2 bowls of soup, and remove the residue, then serve. You can also eat coriander and chestnut kernels.
Function: This soup can penetrate acne rash and is suitable for children with chickenpox.
4, mung bean sweet soup
Ingredients: mung bean100g, sugar.
Method: Wash mung beans, put them in a casserole, add 500 ml of water, cook soup with high fire, and season with sugar until mung beans are crisp and rotten.
Function: diuresis and detumescence, clearing away heat and toxic materials. Mung beans used in this meal are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and benefiting water. Compendium of Edible Materia Medica contains "Cure thirst, erysipelas, vexation and heat". Suitable for children with acne and rapid body heat pulse.
5. Bamboo shoots and barley porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of bamboo shoots, 30 grams of coix seed and 60 grams of japonica rice.
Method: wash fresh bamboo shoots and slice them; Coix seed and japonica rice, washed. Put the pot on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, add bamboo shoots, coix seed and japonica rice, and cook porridge together. Cook the porridge with strong fire first, then with slow fire, and the porridge will be cooked.
Function: Cooking bamboo shoots and japonica rice into porridge can benefit qi, clear heat and promote diuresis. It can be used as an auxiliary food for children with chickenpox during treatment.
Second, what can't children eat with chickenpox?
1. Hair products: chickenpox should be clear of heat, and hair products should not be used. After eating hair products, there will be more and more chickenpox, thus prolonging the course of disease. Therefore, hair products, such as coriander, fermented wine, crucian carp, ginger, green onion, mutton, rooster, shrimp, eel and so on. It is not allowed in the early stage of the disease.
2, eat spicy things: chicken pox and other thermal diseases, do not eat spicy products, spicy products can help fire phlegm, make fever more serious, such foods include pepper, spicy oil, mustard, curry, garlic, leeks, fennel, cinnamon, pepper, mushrooms and so on.
3. Greasy things: Children with chickenpox often have poor appetite and digestive function due to fever, so it is not appropriate to eat greasy things, such as fried, fried hemp balls, a proper amount of fruit, fried pork chops, fried steak, fried chicken, rice cakes, fat, lard, etc., which are not easy to digest and will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
4. Hot food: The treatment of chickenpox should focus on clearing away heat and detoxifying, so hot food should not be taken. This kind of food includes dog meat, mutton, venison, sparrow meat, goose meat, hairtail, yellow croaker, eggs, longan, litchi, fried peanuts, fried broad beans, fried melon seeds and so on.