principles of baby's cold diet conditioning: light, small amount, frequent meals and liquid food
The diet of patients with fever should be light, easy to digest and rich in vitamins. Generally, liquid or semi-liquid foods are mainly used, such as rice soup, porridge, noodles, lotus root starch, etc., with some fresh fruits. Protein is an essential substance for body repair. After the patient's fever has gone down, he can eat semi-liquid foods such as noodles in clear chicken soup and porridge with vegetable paste. At the late stage of recovery, you can supplement lean meat, fish, tofu and other high-protein foods, which is conducive to early recovery.
Common dietary problems of baby with fever:
1. The baby should drink more water when he has a fever, and his mother complains: the little guy refuses to drink water because he doesn't cooperate.
doctor's advice: dilute the milk and feed it to the baby.
Because when children have high fever, the digestion and absorption functions in the body are relatively weakened, the secretion of digestive enzymes is reduced, and the activity is also relatively reduced. Moreover, high temperature in the body is easy to denature protein, and protein is not easy to digest and absorb. Therefore, when the fever is high, children can appropriately reduce the intake of protein and drink more water. This problem can be solved by diluting the milk properly. And for children who don't want to drink water, this method can be used to replenish water.
note: after the child's fever subsides, it should be adjusted according to the original proportion.
The doctor suggested that this practice is unscientific. During a fever, you should not eat too much high-protein food.
because: as we all know, people's body temperature will rise slightly after eating. This is because when food is oxidized and decomposed in the body, it will not only release heat energy itself, but also increase the basal metabolic rate of the human body and stimulate the human body to generate extra heat. This stimulating effect of food is called the special dynamic effect of food in medicine. However, this effect has nothing to do with the total calorie of eating, but with the type of food.
For example, eating carbohydrate can increase basal metabolic rate by 5%~6%, and fat can increase basal metabolic rate by 3%~4%, and the duration of both is only about 1 hour. Eating protein has the greatest influence, which can increase the basal metabolic rate by 15%~3% and last for a long time, some of which can reach 1~12 hours. The content of protein in eggs is high. If you eat it when you have a fever, it will not reduce your body temperature, but will increase, which is not conducive to the recovery of your illness. In view of this, other high-protein foods, such as lean meat and fish, will also add extra calories to the body and should be eaten as little as possible.
Therefore, when children have a fever, parents should not prepare meat and eggs for them, but drink more boiled water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.