What kind of porridge is good for children with fever?

If the child already has a fever, you cannot feed them difficult-to-digest foods, as these foods will aggravate their condition. At this time, you need to feed them some semi-liquid foods, which will be more conducive to gastrointestinal absorption and digestion, such as porridge. You can cook some nutritious porridge for them to prevent them from becoming dehydrated and to give them more physical strength.

Lily and wolfberry porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of lily, 50 grams of rice, and 5 grams of wolfberry.

Preparation method: Wash and soak the lilies, then put them into a pot together with rice and water and boil over high heat. Then add wolfberries and cook until the porridge is thick.

This porridge has the effect of calming the nerves and relieving cough. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on baby's respiratory tract infections and colds and fevers. It is suitable for people with fever, cough or long-term cough and yin damage.

Glutinous Rice and Yam Porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of glutinous rice, 15 grams of yam, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: Fry the glutinous rice briefly and cook it with yam into porridge. When eating, add appropriate amount of white sugar and take it twice a day.

This porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, warm the middle and stop diarrhea, and is suitable for children with diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

No need to worry about personalization

You don’t have to take expensive medicinal herbs to nourish your body. For children, the most important thing is to have a scientific and reasonable combination of three meals a day. “Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements.” In winter, you can let your children eat more red dates, lotus seeds, glutinous rice, yam, longan meat and lotus root. Chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs and milk are all high-protein, high-fat foods. Proper consumption can increase calories. You may also let your children eat more mushrooms, fungus (black and white), pigeons, eels, soybeans and chestnuts.

For children who are prone to colds and coughs, you can use astragalus, lily, walnut kernels and sweet almonds to make porridge, which has the effect of replenishing qi and benefiting the lungs.

For children with anorexia, you can make porridge with yam, rice, etc., which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetite; eating pigeon porridge and dried shrimps has the effect of strengthening the body and kidneys.

For night sweats, thin body, cold limbs, thirst and dry stools, the following diet therapy can be used: 10 grams of Pseudostellaria heterophylla and 15 lotus seeds are placed in a bowl, and appropriate amounts of rock sugar and water are added and steamed until the lotus meat is soft and rotten. Take one dose per day, and one course of treatment is 15 days.

To treat night sweats caused by malnutrition, calcium deficiency, rickets, etc., you can use 200-250 grams of loach, wash off the mucus with warm water, remove the head, tail and internal organs, fry it with appropriate amount of rapeseed oil until it turns yellow, then add appropriate amount of water, cook the soup to half a bowl, then add appropriate amount of salt, drink the soup and eat the meat. Take once a day. Younger patients can take in divided doses. Generally, it takes 5 to 6 days of continuous use to see results.

Children should eat some hard-shell foods in moderation in winter, such as walnuts, pecans, chestnuts and pine nuts, which have the effect of benefiting the intelligence and strengthening the brain.