Liquid foods that children with fever can eat are:
(1) milk. Milk can supplement a certain amount of protein for children, and adding some rice soup can supplement some carbohydrates.
(2) rice soup. Rice soup can supplement carbohydrates to children, and it is full of water, which is convenient for the absorption of sick children's intestines and stomach. Boil the rice and remove the residue to get rice soup.
(3) mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat.
(4) freshly squeezed juice. Freshly squeezed fruit juice is mainly composed of vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates, and contains only a small amount of plant protein, which is easy to absorb. You can drink watermelon juice in summer, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis. You can drink fresh pear juice in autumn and winter, which has the functions of moistening lung and clearing heart, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Fresh orange juice has the functions of eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing lung-heat and dredging collaterals.
Semi-liquid foods that children can eat with fever include lotus root starch, milk powder substitutes, porridge, eggs and rotten noodles.
It is worth noting that liquid food is generally eaten in the acute stage of onset, and semi-liquid food is eaten in the recovery period or fever reduction period.
Don't suddenly increase the food he didn't eat during the fever, so as not to cause diarrhea. If a child with a fever has a bad appetite, don't force him to eat, so as not to vomit after eating, but be sure to replenish water.
Matters needing attention in children's fever diet
1, add water
Water is better than medicine, and you sweat more when you are hot. Need to be replenished with warm water frequently. Children with fever should drink boiled water, which can be properly fed to supplement the body's vitamin C and enhance their disease resistance. Keep your lips moist, not too much.
2. Liquid diet
Children with fever mainly eat liquid foods, such as milk, lotus root starch and milk (less oil). You can also drink mung bean soup and iced watermelon to help cool down, diuresis and disease resistance.
When children's body temperature drops and their appetite improves, they can be fed semi-liquid foods, such as minced meat porridge, noodles, porridge, egg porridge and some digestible fish (black fish). Diet should be light and easy to digest, less oil and less salt, a small amount of meals, to avoid spicy and irritating food. But you don't have to avoid eating in case of malnutrition and decreased resistance.
Step 3 get sugar and salt water
Children with fever and diarrhea can take it many times. Get sugar and salt water. Mix 500 ml of water with a spoonful of sugar and half a bottle of salt. Four hours, 500 ml. At the same time, it can supplement electrolyte foods, such as oranges, bananas and other fruits (more potassium and sodium), milk, soybean milk (containing calcium), rice soup and pasta (containing zinc). If the symptoms are severe, temporarily fast and give "intravenous drip" to supplement water and electrolyte. Liquid food such as rice soup, filtered vegetable juice and lotus root starch. It can be eaten after diarrhea and vomiting are relieved, but milk and soybean milk should be fasted (easy to produce gas).
5, pay attention to indoor ventilation
Open the window for air, keep the air fresh, and keep the room temperature at about 25℃. You can also put your baby in an air-conditioned room, or blow it around with an electric fan to gradually lower your body temperature. If the child's limbs are cold and shivering, cover the child with a blanket and wash his hands and feet with hot water. If your hands and feet are hot and sweaty, you can take off too many clothes.
6. Pay attention to the baby's bed rest
Give light, digestible and nutritious food, such as milk, rice porridge and vegetable soup, eat more fruits and drink more water.
7. Do a good job in oral and skin care.
When high fever, saliva secretion decreases and oral mucosa is dry. At this time, food residues in the mouth are easy to ferment, which is conducive to bacterial reproduction and may cause glossitis and gingivitis. To clean your mouth in time, it is best to rinse your mouth with light salt water after every meal. You will sweat a lot when you have a high fever. Take good care of your skin, dry your sweat in time, change clothes, wipe your skin with a warm towel and keep it clean and dry.
8. Symptomatic treatment
Children with a fever above 37.5℃ can wipe the whole body with a warm towel until the skin is red, so as to expand the blood vessels of the skin and facilitate heat dissipation. If their high fever persists, their body temperature exceeds 39℃, and they are healthy and have no obvious cardiovascular failure, they can put cold water bags on their foreheads, armpits, groin and popliteal fossa to help cool down.