Dietary therapy for infants with cold. Children catch a cold because taking medicine has certain side effects, and feeding children medicine is also a problem. Dietotherapy can achieve satisfactory results. Let's share the diet therapy for baby's cold, hoping to help you.

Dietotherapy for baby's cold 1 1, wind-cold cold

You can add 5 knots of scallion, 3 slices of ginger and 30 grams of brown sugar to hot porridge or hot soup and cook for 10 minute. After taking it while it is hot, cover it with sweat. It is not advisable to eat more raw and cold foods: such as persimmons, crabs, chicken, duck, pork, bananas, watermelons, etc.

2, wind-heat cold

20g of honeysuckle, 20g of chrysanthemum, 0g of mint10g, and 30g of honey, which are eaten after boiling for10min. It is not advisable to eat more foods that warm and replenish qi and blood, such as longan, jujube, litchi, mutton, sea cucumber and turtle.

3. It is wet and cold in summer

20g of white lentils, 50g of Elsholtzia15g, decocted in water for 20min, taken orally, three times a day. You can also drink watermelon juice with tomato juice. Foods that should not be eaten more: you can't use ginger, onion, brown sugar and other foods, as well as cold and greasy foods that are not easy to digest.

Principles and requirements of dietary treatment for colds

1, the diet should be light and soft: because the spleen and stomach function of patients with cold is often affected, light and soft food is easy to digest and absorb, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat liquid or liquid diets such as white rice porridge, milk, corn flour porridge, rice soup, rotten noodles, egg soup, lotus root paste and almond paste.

2, should drink more boiled water: people with colds often have a fever and sweat, and the body loses more water. Drinking more water can improve blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and make the body temperature distributed in time. Therefore, it is better for cold patients without stomach problems to drink light green tea. Tea has a good diuretic effect, has the effect of sweating and strengthening the stomach, and can also clear the fire.

3, you should eat more fruits and vegetables: vegetables and fruits can promote appetite, help digestion, supplement a lot of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and supplement the lack of energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. If you have a cold, eat more ginger

Onion, coriander, etc. ; If it is a wind-heat cold, eat more rape, amaranth, water spinach and so on. If you catch a cold due to dampness in summer, you should eat more water bamboo, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah and cucumber. When the pathogenic heat is mild, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus roots, oranges, apples, apricots, loquats, sugar cane and water chestnuts.

4. Improper taboos: Like drugs, food has the attributes of "four qi" and "five flavors", and different foods should be selected for different types of colds. If you eat casually, improper diet is not only bad for colds, but also makes them difficult to treat. For example, cold fruits and cold drinks should not be eaten because of wind and cold, which will contract mucous membranes and blood vessels and aggravate symptoms such as stuffy nose and sore throat. During the fever period of wind-heat cold, avoid greasy food, meat and sweets. Because these foods hinder the transportation of the spleen and stomach, cough and expectoration are all caused by phlegm dampness, which is not good for people who have a cold and spleen and stomach weakness. Therefore, big fish and big meat, glutinous rice sweets, fried cakes and so on. Should not be taken; In the recovery period of wind-heat cold, it is not advisable to eat spicy and hot foods such as pepper, dog meat and mutton, so as not to hurt the body fluid and help the fire to produce phlegm. Summer-wet and cold, in addition to avoiding fat, but also avoiding salty foods such as pickles and salted fish. Because too salty and wet sputum stimulates the trachea and causes cough, which is not conducive to the recovery of a cold.

5, avoid drinking and strong tea: wine, especially high-alcohol liquor, can make the whole body blood vessels dilate, excite the brain center, affect sleep, cause headaches, and reduce disease resistance.

Dietary therapy for infant colds II. Precautions for baby's cold diet

1, light food: the baby is prone to nausea and loss of appetite after catching a cold, so the food prepared by the mother for the baby should be light. Light food can improve your baby's appetite and avoid insufficient intake of nutrients and elements.

2, liquid food: after the baby catches a cold, the digestive ability of the stomach is reduced, and many foods will increase the burden on the baby's stomach. Therefore, when catching a cold, the baby's food should be mainly liquid, supplemented by drinks such as vitamin-rich juice.

3, eat less and eat more meals: after the baby catches a cold, the mother should not force the baby to eat, which will lead to an increase in the baby's gastrointestinal burden. Mothers can increase the number of times the baby eats, and don't force the baby to eat every time.

4, balanced nutrition: after the baby catches a cold, the mother should not supplement it in order to increase the nutrition for the baby, and pay attention to the reasonable collocation of nutrition. On the premise that the baby's food is light, you can add some nutritious foods such as fish and meat, and match them with drinks such as apple juice.

5, the right amount of hydration: after a cold, the baby loses more water, and the mother should pay attention to timely and appropriate hydration for the baby. Mom, don't let the baby replenish a lot of water at once. You can replenish it several times. The temperature of the water prepared by the mother for the baby should not be too high, and the water temperature is between 30 degrees Celsius and 36 degrees Celsius.