Dietary taboos for children with pneumonia

Pneumonia is a disease that requires great caution when treating, because if you don't pay attention to some details, the disease can easily relapse. We need to pay more attention to pneumonia in children, because children’s immune ability is inherently low. Therefore, when treating pneumonia in children, we must know what the dietary taboos are, so that the child’s body can recover quickly.

Taboo 1: 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.

Taboo 2: Eating foods high in sugars

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.

Taboo 3: 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.

Taboo 4: Greasy and heavy flavors

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.

This article introduces some dietary taboos about pediatric pneumonia. I hope that after reading this article, you will pay more attention to the dietary treatment of this pneumonia. In fact, to cure pneumonia well, more attention should be paid to nursing work, so that the patient's body can restore its immunity and resist bacteria.