What to eat when a child has a fever

In the new 21st century, every family pays more and more attention to health. Children are a very important member of a family. Almost every parent regards their children as treasures and truly treasures them to death. But it is inevitable for children to have a fever in their growth process. Although fever has certain benefits to the body, many parents do not neglect it at all. They attach great importance to what their children eat when they have a fever. Let me introduce what to eat for children with a fever.

Among common diseases in children, upper respiratory tract infection is the most common, and fever is its main clinical manifestation. Generally speaking, during fever, saliva secretion decreases, the mouth becomes dry, and bacteria in the mouth are more likely to multiply. If the vitamin supply is insufficient at this time, it can easily cause glossitis or gingivitis, resulting in dry mouth, loss of taste, etc. In addition, due to high fever, the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juices decreases and the motor function is significantly weakened, so food stays in the gastrointestinal tract for a longer time, causing abdominal bloating. Infants may have diarrhea, and older children may have symptoms such as constipation and intestinal bloating, which affect intestinal digestion and absorption, so children are unwilling to eat when they have a fever.

According to the above situation, children with high fever should be given plenty of water and their diet should mainly consist of liquid food. In the absence of diarrhea, give high-calorie and easily digestible liquid food, such as breast milk or milk as the staple food. During the fever period, all complementary foods, whether breastfeeding or bottle feeding, should be stopped and resumed after the condition improves. If the child has been weaned, liquid foods such as milk, rice soup, lotus root powder, soy milk, egg drop soup, gravy, and fruit juice can be used. It is advisable to eat small meals frequently to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. After the body temperature gradually drops, change to semi-liquid food, such as porridge, noodles, eggs, minced meat, minced chicken, chopped vegetables, etc. After the body temperature returns to normal, you can change back to the original meal. When a sick child has a fever and diarrhea, the principle of reducing the intestinal burden should be considered and the daily food intake should be appropriately reduced. For babies who are breastfed, the feeding time should be reduced to control the amount of milk, or the interval between feedings should be lengthened. If the baby is bottle-fed, the milk can be diluted or skimmed milk can be used instead, depending on the severity of the diarrhea.

What foods should you eat when you have a fever?

When a baby has a fever, he or she generally has a poor appetite. At this time, infants and young children do not want to eat. It is best not to force the baby to accept weaning food. Instead, you can give the baby a small amount of weaning food each time that tastes good and can stimulate appetite.

For babies in the early stages of weaning, temporarily stop feeding them weaning foods and give them a small amount of diluted milk, and don't forget to give them water.

Vitamins and mineral nutrients are essential, and more fruit juice should also be given. In addition, because the mouth is very dry and food is difficult to swallow, you must find a way to cook some food that is easy to swallow. For this purpose, it is better to give jelly, yogurt and cream, or food softened in soup. Because you can't eat a lot at one time, you should eat small meals frequently. If you like to eat cold food, you can also give some snacks during the meal.

【Fruit Jelly】

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped fruit, 1 teaspoon gelatin powder, 2 tablespoons water, 2 tablespoons juice.

Preparation: Soak the gelatin powder in twice the amount of water, pour it into a pot and cook it together with the water. Then add chopped fruits and juice. After cooking, pour it into a shaping container to cool and set.

【Tomato salad】

Ingredients: 1/2 tomato, 2 cm thick pieces of honeydew and peach, 2 tablespoons of yogurt.

Preparation: Cut the tomatoes in half horizontally (into a bowl shape), remove the seeds, chop the tomato flesh, honeydew and peach, then mix with yogurt and put into the tomato cup.

I have already told you what to eat for children with fever. These are the foods that children can eat more when they have a fever. Fever can speed up the body's metabolism, so these foods eaten when having a fever will be beneficial to the child's physical development. Of course, children’s fever cannot be treated solely by food. Combining some therapeutic drugs with the above-mentioned foods will surely achieve better results. I hope that these foods for fever will be of some help to your child’s body and growth.