There are 9 dietary taboos for children with mycoplasma infection

Mycoplasma infection in children is a relatively common disease among children and is highly contagious, so parents must pay close attention to this disease. So what are the dietary taboos for children after they are infected with mycoplasma? Most mothers don’t know much about this. In fact, there are 9 dietary taboos for mycoplasma infection in children. The first one is to avoid high-protein diet.

1. Avoid high-protein diet

Lean meat, fish and eggs are mainly protein. 1 gram of protein absorbs 18 ml of water in the body, and the final product of protein metabolism is urea. If children eat more protein, their urea excretion will also increase accordingly. For every 300 mg of urea excreted, at least 20 ml of water will be taken away. Therefore, children with high fever and dehydration should avoid high-protein diets, and appropriate supplements can be given in the later stages of the disease to improve their physical fitness.

2. Drink tea

Children with pneumonia often have fever and should avoid drinking tea. Because the theacrine in tea can excite the central nervous system, it can keep the brain in an excited state, and can also speed up the pulse and raise blood pressure. When you have a fever, your body is in an excited stage where good and evil are fighting each other, and your pulse is faster. Drinking tea will stimulate the myocardium and increase consumption. This will not only fail to reduce the fever, but on the contrary will increase the body temperature and induce other diseases. In addition, the tannic acid in tea has an astringent effect. Chinese medicine believes that it is not conducive to the dissipation of evil spirits on the skin surface and is also not suitable for children with fever.

3. Eat foods high in sugar

Sugar is a calorie supplement with a simple function and basically contains no other nutrients. If children with pneumonia eat too much sugar, the bactericidal effect of white blood cells in the body will be inhibited. The more sugar they eat, the more obvious the inhibition will be, which will aggravate the condition.

4. Greasy and heavy taste

Children with pneumonia often have poor digestive function. If they eat greasy and heavy food, their digestive function will be further affected and necessary nutrients will not be replenished in time, resulting in reduced disease resistance. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat greasy foods such as cod liver oil, pine egg yolk, crab roe, phoenix tail fish, crucian carp roe, and animal offal. If you drink milk, you should remove the upper oil film, and nursing mothers should eat less greasy food to avoid aggravating the condition.

5. Use acidic drugs and foods

Schisandra chinensis, black plum, vitamin C, sour fruit, orange, vinegar, etc. are sour in taste, can be astringent and astringent, and can hinder sweating and relieve exterior symptoms.

6. Spicy food

Spicy foods are very irritating and can easily generate heat and damage body fluids. Therefore, children with pneumonia should not add chili oil, pepper, and spicy condiments to their diet.

7. Abuse of antipyretics

Using too many antipyretics as soon as a fever occurs is not only harmful to the body, but may also mask the condition and delay treatment. Therefore, antipyretics should be used with caution in children with fever, and excessive use of medication should be avoided to prevent a sudden drop in body temperature, profuse sweating, and collapse.

8. Raw and cold food

If you eat too much raw and cold food such as watermelon, ice cream, frozen juice, popsicles, popsicles, cold drinks, bananas, raw pears, etc., it is easy to affect the Yang energy in the body. If the Yang energy is damaged, it will be unable to resist evil and the illness will be difficult to cure. Therefore, you should avoid eating it, especially for children with gastrointestinal symptoms.

9. Taking antipyretic drugs indiscriminately

Heat-clearing medicines such as gold and silver tea, green fruit, and isatis root granules are beneficial for children with pneumonia. However, it cannot be taken for a long time, especially for those with weak constitution, do not take heat-clearing medicine easily. Otherwise, it will damage the body's positive energy and aggravate the original symptoms.