What food should children eat when they have a high fever

Children's resistance and immunity are relatively low, and many babies will develop fever symptoms due to the invasion of cold wind. Fever is quite dangerous for babies. If antipyretic treatment is not given in time, it may even have a certain impact on the baby's brain development. In addition, when children have a high fever, they need to be given some appropriate food to ensure that they can recover soon.

1. What food should children eat when they have a fever

1. Rice soup. When a child has a fever, the best food to eat is rice porridge or rice soup. This type of food is rich in nutrients and contains sufficient water, making it easier for the sick child's stomach to absorb. The method of making rice porridge is very simple. Just put rice in a pot and add appropriate amount of water. When giving it to children, you may want to add appropriate amount of sugar so that children will be more willing to eat it.

2. Mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat.

3. Fresh fruit juice. In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and diuresis; in autumn and winter, you can drink fresh pear juice, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, and removing phlegm; fresh orange juice has the effects of removing dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and unblocking the meridians.

2. What fruits are good for children with fever?

Apple: It has a bowel-regulating effect and is very helpful for diuresis and eliminating fatigue.

Bananas: They can be eaten when children have a fever. They can increase the child's taste and moisture. The main function is to relieve constipation.

Water chestnut: can improve eyesight, remove cataracts, treat hemorrhoids, and blood in stool. It can prevent meningitis and hypertension, and can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and thick sputum.

Strawberry: It is sour and sweet, very delicious, and has a good effect of reducing heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating strawberries can reduce internal heat, clear away summer heat, relieve fever, and eliminate restlessness.

Pear: It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is often used for damage to body fluid caused by febrile diseases, thirst, hot cough or dry cough, asthma and aphonia, etc.

3. Food precautions for children with fever

1. Liquid food is generally consumed during the acute phase of illness, and semi-liquid food is consumed during the recovery phase or fever reduction phase.

2. If a child with a fever has a poor appetite, do not force him to eat, so as to avoid vomiting due to stomach discomfort after eating.

3. Be sure to replenish water.

4. Do not suddenly add food that the child has not eaten before during the fever period to avoid diarrhea.