If you have pneumonia, you need to pay more attention to your diet. Pneumonia is easily abated. Because of breathing difficulties, your body needs to work harder to absorb oxygen. Once you get sick, your appetite will also be affected. These two factors will also cause weight loss and malnutrition. In addition, after starting to treat pneumonia, more nutrition is needed to repair the damaged tissue. If improper diet leads to malnutrition, it will not only restore the body, but also lead to other complications. Therefore, during the treatment of pneumonia, reasonable diet should be arranged to ensure adequate intake of energy, protein and micronutrients. Maintaining a balanced diet and ensuring the intake of vitamins and minerals during treatment can not improve immunity and prevent malnutrition. Fruits and vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals. Grain is not only rich in these two nutrients, but also contains many other nutrients. Nuts and seeds are not only nutritious, but also can effectively increase daily calorie intake.
It is emphasized here that the advantages of dietotherapy are mainly small side effects and good curative effect. Foods that clear away lung heat include carrots, pears, fungus, soybean milk, honey and so on. Pears can quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve cough. After hollowing out the interior, add Fritillaria cirrhosa, crystal sugar, honey, etc. Cover with water and boil, once a day, 2~3 slices can be made each time, or sliced with skin and steamed in a bowl. Put a little rock sugar in the bowl and cook with honey. Better eat it while it's hot. Traditional Chinese medicine attaches importance to the homology of medicine, moxibustion and food, especially to regulating human resistance through diet. Therefore, it is the best and healthiest to nourish the lungs to achieve the purpose of treatment. In addition, when you are in the lungs, don't smoke or drink, don't eat spicy food, often do routine training, improve your resistance, keep an optimistic mood, and communicate with people around you more.
Ensuring adequate energy intake and increasing calories does not mean that every meal should be specially eaten. We still need to treat it in a reasonable way. Please try to replace three meals a day with five meals a day. Please drink honey or homemade juice when drinking water, and peanut butter or cheese when eating fruit. If you feel that you are eating hard, but you are losing weight, please remember to consult a doctor immediately. Protein must take enough protein, which is absolutely beneficial to the recovery of the body. The body needs to produce new tissue to repair damaged tissue. This process requires not only energy, but also protein's help, including protein for plants and protein for animals. Animal protein includes red meat, poultry meat and fish, and other plant protein sources include nuts, seeds, beans and bean products.