What should I do if a one-year-old child has a fever?

As children grow up, they will always encounter this or that situation. Because children's resistance is relatively weak, fever is very common. Whenever a child has a fever, parents are more anxious than the children. In addition to actively taking their children to the hospital for treatment, many parents try every means to get their children to eat more. So what can children eat to get better quickly when they have a fever?

What food to eat when you have a fever

1. Fruit

Apple: It has a bowel-regulating effect and is very helpful for diuresis and eliminating fatigue.

Water chestnut: can improve eyesight, remove cataracts, treat hemorrhoids, and blood in stool. It can prevent meningitis and hypertension, and can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and thick sputum.

Strawberry: It is sour and sweet, very delicious, and has a good effect of reducing heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating strawberries can reduce internal heat, clear away summer heat, relieve fever, and eliminate restlessness.

Pear: It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is often used for damage to body fluid caused by febrile diseases, thirst, hot cough or dry cough, asthma and aphonia, etc.

2. Food

1. Milk. Milk can provide children with a certain amount of protein, and adding an appropriate amount of rice soup can provide some carbohydrates.

2. Rice soup. Rice soup can provide children with carbohydrates, and it has sufficient water content, making it easier for sick children to absorb it through their stomachs. Boil the rice until it is soft and remove the residue to get rice soup.

3. Mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat.

4. Fresh fruit juice. In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and diuresis; in autumn and winter, you can drink fresh pear juice, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, and removing phlegm; fresh orange juice has the effects of removing dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and unblocking the meridians.

Fever diet precautions

1. Liquid food is generally consumed during the acute phase of illness, and semi-liquid food is consumed during the recovery phase or fever reduction phase.

2. If a child with a fever has a poor appetite, do not force him to eat, so as to avoid vomiting due to stomach discomfort after eating.

3. Be sure to replenish water.

4. Do not suddenly add food that the child has not eaten before during the fever period to avoid diarrhea.

Generally speaking, most children do not have a good appetite during a fever, so it is best not to force them to eat while they are sick. If they want to eat, let them eat more light foods and fruits, drink some milk, mung bean soup, fresh fruit juice, etc. In addition, you can actively take physical cooling methods at home.