6 good foods for children with hand, foot and mouth disease when caring for them at home

Signs of hand, foot and mouth disease in children

1. How to treat and care for children with signs of hand, foot and mouth disease?

According to medical experts, hand, foot and mouth disease often begins with symptoms: fever, poor appetite, discomfort and sore throat.

About 1-2 days after the fever, painful blisters appear in the mouth. They start as red blisters and often develop into ulcers, mainly on the tongue, gums and inside the cheeks.

A non-itchy rash appears over 1-2 days as flat or raised red lesions, some with blisters. The rash is usually concentrated on the palms of the hands or soles of the feet, but may also appear on the buttocks and/or genitals...

When detecting signs of hand, foot and mouth disease in children, parents should take their children to a medical facility for examination and proper treatment. In cases where the disease is mild, children will be instructed to treat and care at home.

There is no specific treatment for hand, foot and mouth disease. Treatment is mainly symptomatic and supportive, such as reducing fever, giving children enough water, adequate nutrition, and cleaning areas of skin with blisters, especially mouth ulcers.

According to MSc. Do Thi Thuy Hau, Head Nurse of the Tropical Disease Center, National Children's Hospital, children with mild hand, foot and mouth disease, with only mouth ulcers, skin lesions with or without fever, can be treated and monitored at home.

Parents need to take care of their children and give them medicine according to the doctor's instructions. It is necessary to isolate and control the child's fever; clean the body, take care of the skin properly; closely monitor the child's illness, if there are any unusual signs, take the child immediately to a medical facility for appropriate and timely intervention.

About children's diet:

If the baby is still breastfeeding: continue to breastfeed (express milk and spoon feed when the baby has a sore mouth and cannot breastfeed).

For older children: feed them liquid, easy-to-digest foods such as soup and porridge. Children should be fed many small meals. Children should not be given spicy, hot, or hard foods.

2. Good foods for children with hand, foot and mouth disease

When children have hand, foot and mouth disease, they will feel very uncomfortable due to blisters in the mouth causing pain when chewing and swallowing. Therefore, children often do not want to eat, have loss of appetite, cry, or vomit... Nutrition experts advise parents to feed their children liquid but nutritious foods so that they can easily swallow, digest and ensure adequate nutrition for the body.

Soft, liquid foods such as soup and porridge contain a lot of water, which helps to replenish the water lost due to fever. Soup and porridge are also easy to digest and absorb. These are also children's favorite daily foods, so they will be easier for them to eat.

Below are some porridge and soup dishes that provide complete groups of nutrients such as: starch, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals.tThese nutrients are essential to help children increase their resistance and recover quickly.

Chicken corn mushroom soup

Ingredient

Chicken 200g

Sweet corn ½ cob

1 egg white

Shiitake mushrooms, carrots, a little tapioca starch

Making

- Wash the chicken, drain, add water to boil the chicken until cooked, remove to a plate and shred. Simmer the chicken bones to sweeten the water, filter the water to make soup.

- Separate the sweet corn kernels and wash them. Peel and dice the carrots. Soak the shiitake mushrooms in warm water, wash and slice them. Wash and chop the green onions and coriander.

- Add sweet corn and carrots to the chicken broth and boil until soft. Add shredded chicken, shiitake mushrooms and season to taste.

- Mix tapioca starch with a little water, stir until dissolved, slowly pour into the chicken soup pot, stirring constantly, reduce heat and simmer for a few more minutes. Beat egg whites and add to the soup pot, stir well until boiling again. Add coriander, green onions, stir well and turn off the heat.

Pumpkin Shrimp Soup

Ingredient

Shrimp 100g

Pumpkin 150g

Unsweetened fresh milk 30ml

Spices, cooking oil

Making

- Peel and head fresh shrimp, remove black vein on back, wash clean. Keep shrimp head to cook broth.

- Boil the broth for about 10 minutes, then remove the shrimp heads. Add the shrimp meat and blanch until cooked, remove and cut into small pieces.

- Add a little cooking oil to the pot, heat it up, then add the sliced ​​pumpkin and stir-fry until it is firm. Then add the shrimp broth to the pumpkin pot and cook over medium low heat for about 15 minutes. When the pumpkin is soft, add the milk, stir well, bring to a boil again, then puree the pumpkin mixture in a blender.

- Put the pureed pumpkin back into the pot, add the shrimp meat, stir the pumpkin shrimp soup mixture, cook for about 1 - 2 more minutes, then season.

Beef and Potato Soup

Ingredient

1 potato

50g beef

1 cheese

200ml broth

Making

- Peel the potatoes, wash them, then steam them and mash them. Wash the beef and mince it.

- Put beef and potatoes in the broth, bring to a boil, season, then add the cheese, stir until melted.

Chicken and carrot porridge

Ingredient

Rice 50g

Chicken 50g

Carrot 30g

Green onion, spices

Making

- Wash the chicken, boil it, and shred it.

- Peel and wash carrots, boil, then mash. Wash and chop green onions.

- Wash the rice, use chicken broth to simmer the porridge. Once the porridge is cooked, add chicken, carrots, and a little green onion, stir well, season, stir well, then turn off the stove.

Vegetable rib porridge

Ingredient

2 handfuls of rice

1 potato

Carrot ½ root

Straw mushrooms 100g

Baby back ribs 300g

Scallions, coriander, spices

Making

- Boil the ribs, then wash them, add water and boil until the ribs are soft, then remove and set aside.

- Peel and dice potatoes and carrots. Wash straw mushrooms, blanch in boiling water, drain, and cut in half.

- Add rice to the pot of rib broth and cook until porridge is soft. Then add potatoes and carrots and simmer for another 10 minutes, then add straw mushrooms and cook until done, season and turn off the heat.

Beef and vegetable porridge

Ingredient

50g rice

Potato 1 small

Carrot 20g

Beef 30g

Peas 10g

Making

- Wash and mince beef. Peel, wash and dice potatoes and carrots. Wash and drain peas.

- Boil or steam vegetables: potatoes, carrots and peas, put on a plate.

- Cook the porridge until soft, then add beef, potatoes, carrots, peas, stir well, season, cook for about 5 more minutes.

According to Health and Life