Nutrition for children with respiratory tract infections

Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia of respiratory disease common in infants under 5 years of age. Knowing how to care for and monitor the disease when she helps parents become more confident and more protection for your little angels.


Inflammatory respiratory disease

Disease is caused by bacterial or viral cause. Manifestations of the disease typically include fever, runny nose, cough, vomiting Nhon, vomiting, sore throat, shortness of breath ...
Patients may have one of the above symptoms, or symptoms at the same time. If the disease caused by the virus, only symptomatic treatment, within 3-5 days from the disease itself.

When pathogens are bacteria, the doctor will assign antibiotics to treat the baby, this time duration of antibiotic use can range from 5-14 days, depending on the condition, it should be observed to avoid rapid drug withdrawal and relapse again soon.

Baby Care inflammation in the respiratory tract

Baby fever: fever medication on the market are varied, but in general are the main ingredient paracetamol, should only be used when the baby fever of 38 C or more, if the temperature just below this temperature for baby clothes and transient Drink plenty of water, the dose of paracetamol from 10 - 15 mg / 1kg weight baby (eg, child weighing 10 kg can drink 1 times from 100 - 150 mg paracetamol fever). If using antipyretics and that baby fever remains high, so the baby a warm bath (wet the head) to cool down quickly, avoid febrile convulsions.

Sneezing Baby: Baby nose wipe with a soft cloth, dry (preferably soft tissue), such as baby will soon run out of runny nose, sore back no nose, red nose, so wipe your nose too much. Keep your body warm is also a quick way to help your baby out runny nose, but since the summer, hot weather, there is no need for baby clothes too thick, will cause uncomfortable feelings, just avoid little stream located just a fan, air conditioning winds are ferry. Room temperature is above acceptable or 25 ° C.

Baby nasal congestion: using physiological saline solution (NaCl 0.9%) nose drops to thin nasal baby, then vacuum dried and picking nose with dry cotton swab, clean.

Baby cough: coughing in respiratory tract infections may increase due to excessive salivation, discharge, or spasm of the respiratory muscles. So, depending on the mechanism causing coughing doctor decides to use any kind of cough medicine for children. However, despite ho by any mechanism, the drink plenty of water and pat the baby's back regularly is also important, which helps dilute phlegm, long talks, reducing infant cough.

Baby vomiting: vomiting can be due to negotiations, also due to exacerbations. So, if you are treating the baby vomiting see more, so baby checkup to see is due to the special negotiations or induce vomiting due to advanced disease worse.

Baby anorexia: anorexia as respiratory infections can be caused by many reasons: in the incubation period, the baby may have fatigue loss of appetite. When illness, anorexia occur due to little sore throat, stuffy nose, by the use of antibiotics as long intestinal tract disorder.

The principles of nutrition care

Preparing for feeding

Clean nose to nose clean suction, then pick your nose with a dry cotton swab, this action helps clear the nose, when she will eat less vomiting.

Feed for baby to soft, liquid than usual.
Preparing food for the baby: during treatment, most children will have the feeling of appetite and digestion difficult than usual, so, baby food must be cooked softer and a little looser than weekdays, but still must meet four food groups (starch, fat, protein, vegetables).

Prepare a dry soft cloth to wipe the baby while feeding, do not use a wet towel, because he wet the tip touches many times will cause cold and runny continuous stimulation.

Foods to diet: food, cold drinks; the food you eat into hives baby (baby food allergy).

Offer

Offer better food cold food warm (cold food that would make the situation more progressive angina).

If anorexia baby, your baby should eat less food intake than usual, so let him not go hungry and have not lost weight, then feeding more often (number of meals more) and take advantage of the gifts she likes to help her eat more.

During treatment, very little greasy feeling nausea and loss of appetite, thus, need to feed the baby slower than usual. When he refused to eat again, then stopped and immediately after a meal supplement the food that she likes (yogurt, cakes, cheese ...).

Baby vomiting: this is the fear of the parents when the child sick. If your baby is vomiting only 1-2 times per day and have fun, play well, just for your baby to eat or drink milk right after the baby is not hungry for vomiting and weight loss.

When your baby has these symptoms it is time to visit the baby in hospital: rapid breathing, continuous high fever from 3-5 days, vomiting much as she could not eat or drink anything, your doctor will be able to enter your baby hospital.

Prevention of respiratory tract infections

Includes: to avoid the baby caught a cold, avoid contact with the sick child. The family members often little if any contact with patients should be treated immediately. Restrictions take her to crowded places during translation, limiting the baby to the dusty place (as a way to carry your baby veil or a mask), limit your baby too cold drinks, encourage them Drink plenty of water, good nutrition care to improve resistance to the baby.