How should the baby’s diet be arranged when he has a fever?

For new mothers, once their baby has a fever, they will basically be very anxious and may even be at a loss. In this case, in addition to using medicine to reduce the baby's temperature as soon as possible, the baby's diet at this stage is also very important. Careless care may damage the baby's fragile gastrointestinal system. Today we will introduce how to arrange the baby's diet when he has a fever in different situations. I hope to help new mothers better understand their baby’s physical condition and provide better care and attention to their baby.

Babies under six months old should continue to be breastfed if they were originally breastfed. Breast milk is easy to digest and can meet nutritional needs. It also contains 87% water, which can replenish water. If the baby is bottle-fed, he can be fed diluted skim milk, that is, 2 or 3 parts milk to 1 part water (2:1 or 3:1), and the intake can be the same as usual.

At this time, although the amount of milk the baby actually consumes is reduced, the water is replenished, which is more conducive to digestion and absorption. It is better to drink boiled water when you have a fever. You can also add some fresh fruit juice to supplement the vitamin C needed by the human body. The amount of water you drink should be enough to maintain normal urine volume and moisturize your lips, but not too much.

For older children who have a fever, the diet should mainly consist of liquid or semi-liquid foods. Commonly used fluids include milk, rice soup, mung bean soup, low-fat meat soup and various fresh fruit juices. Drinking some mung bean soup (with a small amount of sugar) in summer can not only cool you down but also help replenish water. If the fever is accompanied by diarrhea and vomiting, but the symptoms are mild, you can let the patient take homemade oral sugar and salt water in small amounts and multiple times. The preparation ratio is to add one level spoon of sugar and half a beer bottle cap of salt to 500 ml of water or rice soup. Children around 1 year old can take 500 ml within 4 hours. At the same time, you can also eat some foods that supplement electrolytes, such as citrus fruits, bananas (rich in potassium and sodium), milk and soy milk (rich in calcium), rice soup or pasta (rich in magnesium). If the symptoms are more severe, you should temporarily fast to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and seek medical treatment.

When the child's body temperature drops and his appetite improves, he can be changed to a semi-liquid diet, such as lotus root powder, milk powder, porridge, egg custard, noodle soup, etc. The principle is to eat light and easily digestible food, and eat small meals frequently. There is no need to blindly avoid certain foods to prevent malnutrition and decreased resistance. Children with cough and phlegm often swallow the phlegm into their stomachs because they cannot cough it up. Severe coughing can also cause stomach discomfort. If they eat too much, they are prone to vomiting. Therefore, parents should pay special attention and not let their children overeat, eat seafood or overly salty or greasy dishes, so as to avoid allergies or respiratory irritation and aggravation of symptoms.

I hope that the daily precautions we mentioned above can help mothers. Once the baby is found to have a fever, the first thing to do is to find a way to cool the child down. Then, we need to regulate the body. Children are very prone to fever when they are young. Mothers do not need to be too nervous. As long as the right method is used to regulate the baby, I believe the baby will recover soon.