Can children with chickenpox eat eggs?

Chickenpox is a disease that often occurs in children and is contagious. Of course, the most special thing about chickenpox is that once you get it and recover, you will never get it again in your life because your body already has antibodies. Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about chickenpox, just treat it correctly. So, can children with chickenpox eat eggs?

It is best not to eat eggs when children have chickenpox, as this is not conducive to a quick recovery from the disease. In addition, eggs contain a large amount of protein, but they are foreign proteins, and a considerable number of people experience pathological reactions after eating foreign proteins. Patients should try not to eat eggs when they have chickenpox. In addition, the following foods should not be consumed:

1. Edible fungi mainly include mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc. Overeating of these foods can easily cause wind and yang, triggering chronic diseases such as liver yang headache, liver wind dizziness, etc. In addition, it can easily induce or aggravate skin sores and swelling.

2. Sea food mainly includes aquatic products such as hairtail, yellow croaker, pomfret, clam meat, shrimp, crab, etc. These foods are mostly salty, cold and fishy. For people with allergic constitution, they can easily induce allergic diseases such as asthma and urticaria. At the same time, they can also easily induce skin diseases such as sores, swelling and toxins.

3. Vegetables mainly include bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkin, spinach, etc. These foods can easily induce skin sores and swelling.

Can you eat eggs after having chickenpox? After reading the description of the question whether you can eat eggs after having chickenpox in this article, I believe you have already got the answer. In addition, it is recommended that chickenpox patients must pay attention to the other two inedible foods mentioned in this article in their diet, so as not to aggravate the spread of chickenpox and worsen the disease.

What to do if your child has chickenpox

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that can be spread through saliva, contact, etc. In kindergarten, if one child is infected with chickenpox and the parents or teachers do not notice it and continue to let the child play with other children, basically, all the children in the class may be infected with chickenpox.

Chickenpox has an acute onset. About two weeks after a child is infected with the chickenpox virus, the child will develop prodromal symptoms of chickenpox. Symptoms include fever, headache, general fatigue, etc. Twenty-four hours after the onset of the disease, a rash will appear on the child's body and quickly grow into rice- or pea-sized chickenpox. These chickenpox are surrounded by red halos, and the center of the blisters is shaped like a belly button. After two to three days, the chickenpox will gradually dry up and form a scab, which will slowly fall off.

Chickenpox can grow anywhere, of course, chickenpox grows more often on the trunk. Chickenpox can usually be cured, but because chickenpox can cause itching, many children will scratch it, which can easily break the chickenpox, and scratching the chickenpox is likely to cause complications. Therefore, when a child develops chickenpox, parents still need to take the child to the hospital for treatment in time.

If parents do not take good care of their children when they have chickenpox, it may cause secondary infection of skin herpes, pneumonia, varicella encephalitis, varicella hepatitis, myocarditis, nephritis, hypothalamic syndrome, etc. These complications of chickenpox are very harmful to children. If the doctor can control the disease in time, it will be fine. If not, serious neurothoracic complications such as encephalitis may cause the death of the child, and even if the child survives, there will be permanent sequelae.

Therefore, for the health of children, when children have symptoms of chickenpox, parents must not be careless and should take their children to the hospital for treatment in time. At the same time, we must also pay attention to children's diet. When children have chickenpox, they should avoid eating many foods. Eating them will only aggravate the child's condition.

What should not be eaten by children with chickenpox? Pork, mutton, chicken, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, green onions, garlic, onions, leeks, chili peppers, pepper, mustard greens, coriander, shiitake mushrooms, pumpkin, toon, goose, hairtail, cucumber, lychee, longan meat, plum, apricot, jujube, persimmon, pomegranate, cherry, chestnut, fried peanuts, fried broad beans, fried melon seeds, glutinous rice cakes, fat, lard, fennel, curry, mustard, etc. are not suitable for consumption. Parents should try to feed their children easily digestible and nutritious food.