Diet "Table number 5" for children

Due to malnutrition, the number of diseases of the liver and biliary tract in children has recently increased markedly. Causes of liver damage can be not only errors in the diet, but also infectious diseases.

Diet number 5 is prescribed only by a doctor. It is indicated for the following diseases of the digestive system:

• Diseases of the liver. Cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis of different origin (viral, toxic, infectious).
• Diseases of the biliary tract and gallbladder. These are cholecystitis, gallstone disease, cholangitis, postoperative syndrome after removal of the gallbladder. Very often, Giardia, protozoa and other pathogens become the cause of bile duct lesions.
• Diseases of the stomach. Chronic gastritis and gastroenteritis.
• Diseases of the pancreas. Chronic and acute pancreatitis, pancreatoduodenitis.

If the doctor recommended your child to follow the diet number 5, it is better when preparing the menu for the week to select products that are allowed with such medical nutrition. All products can be divided into allowed and prohibited.

Permitted products include:

• Dried wheat crackers, yesterday's pastries. You can some flour products from rye and flour of the first or second grade.
• Pies with various fillings. You can add apples, cottage cheese, meat or fish mince to the dishes. Such pies should not be roasted, but baked in the oven.
• Oven baked or cooked in a double boiler. Children under three years old should eat white varieties of fish (hake, pollock, cod). For older guys, you can include red fish in the menu. It is advisable to choose not quite fat varieties. Salmon or fat salmon are not suitable for kids. An excellent substitute will be trout, as well as pink salmon, chum salmon.
• Bird, turkey, beef. Pork is lean. Fat and fat before cooking are removed.
• Soups, boiled in vegetable or cereal broth. You can cook milk soup, but be sure to dilute the milk with water.
• Omelets, steamed or baked in the oven without fried crust. You can boil hard boiled eggs. Include eggs in the diet when diet No. 5 should not be more than 1-2 times a week.
• Cabbagewhich should be well stewed.
• Special children's vegetable and fruit puree in jars. Especially well it is suitable for children from 6 months after the introduction of the first complementary foods.
• Sour-milk curds, yogurt or kefirenriched with beneficial bifidobacteria and lactobacilli. Prefer low-fat foods.
• All sweet fruits and berries.
• All vegetables (except prohibited). With great care - tomatoes.
• Unsweetened and low-fat crackers and biscuits. Sweets should be selected without chocolate icing. You can eat honey and various dried fruits.
• Cereals. Prefer rice, oatmeal or buckwheat.
• Morsy and compotes, cooked on the basis of dried fruits and berries. You can cook fruit drinks from frozen berries. With proper freezing, they do not lose their beneficial properties and vitamins. Still mineral water. Various berry jelly. Tea should be weak. Cocoa on milk.

By excluding food that is forbidden to eat, one can achieve stable remission of the disease.

If a child has loose stools, give preference to products that fix it. Be sure to include in the diet of rice porridge and meat products. With constipation should increase the number of vegetables and fruits. Useful fiber contained in them will have a positive stimulating effect on the intestinal motor function.

• Fresh pastries and baking. All pastries should be left until tomorrow and there is only yesterday's flour products. Dishes from puff pastry are prohibited.

• Salted and fatty fish.

• All industrially prepared meat products: sausages, sausages and wieners, pastes made from offal duck and pork. Smoked and salted pork fat.

• Soups boiled in fatty meat or fish broth. During the cooking process, a huge amount of extractive substances is released into the broth, which can cause exacerbation of gastritis or pancreatitis in a child.

• Scrambled eggs or eggs cooked hard boiled.

• All pickles and canned.

• Sour cream, cheese, as well as all high-fat dairy products.

• Sour berries and fruits.

• Spicy vegetables: sorrel, green and onions, garlic, and radishes.

• Cereal cereals: from corn, millet and pearl barley.

• Packaged sweet juices, strong coffee.

When preparing the menu for the day, try to include in the child's diet as much as possible of different products. So he will get more nutrients and vitamins necessary for its growth and development.

Sample menu for the day:

• Breakfast. Rice casserole with dried fruits and candied fruits. If desired, you can decorate with strawberry yogurt. Unsweetened weak tea.
• For a snack fit banana. For older children, put some walnuts.
• For lunch - soup with cauliflower and ground beef meatballs. On the second - vegetable pilaf. Dried fruits compote.
• Afternoon tea. Cottage cheese with pear and almond petals. Cranberry juice.
• For dinner Stew pink salmon in vegetable sauce. You can serve boiled crumbly rice on the side dish. Complete the dish with vegetable salad, seasoned with vegetable oil. For dessert - peeled oatmeal crackers with raisins. Unsweetened tea.

If the kid loves cereals and vegetables more, make casseroles or cereals. Be sure to include in the diet low-fat meat products. They are needed for the growth and development of the child.

Children's menu with diet number 5 is very diverse. You can combine all the products from the allowed list, getting new and interesting recipes. Such nutrition will help to preserve the health of the whole family and prevent possible exacerbations of chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

• Take 500 g of 5% cottage cheese. Carefully wipe it through a sieve. This will make the dish more airy and tender. Add one egg, a little salt and a tablespoon of sugar. Enter the flour to the state that formed a fairly thick dough. Stir it thoroughly. Let the dough stand for a while and swell.
• At this time, put the pan with salted water on the stove. Bring to a boil. Cut the dough into long strips (about two centimeters thick). Cut into cubes. Dip pieces of dough in boiling water. Cook from the time of their ascent to the surface for 12-15 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a plate. Excess water must drain.
• Cooking berry sauce is quite simple. To do this, take any berries. They can be fresh or frozen. It all depends on the season. Boil the berries with a little water (until the syrup is formed). Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to about 400-500 g of berries. Mix 1 tablespoon of potato starch with cold water. Stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
• When the berries are boiled with sugar for 10 minutes, pour in a thin stream of starch.Warm up, but do not bring to a boil. When the first bubbles appear, remove them from the stove. The sauce is ready!
• Cool the berry sauce and serve along with the dumplings. You can decorate the dish with banana or fresh berries. Be sure that the baby will love this dish, and he will certainly ask for supplements.

• Take 500 g of any white fish fillet. Make sure all the bones are pulled out. Scroll the fillet in the meat grinder through the fine grate. Mix with egg, salt a little. Soak a couple of pieces of wheat bread or crackers. Soaked bread squeeze and add to the stuffing. Mix thoroughly.
• Prepare a baking dish. Shape the edges with a small amount of butter or vegetable oil. Rub 400 grams of potatoes on a coarse grater. Separately, boil (not to full readiness) 300 g of broccoli or cauliflower. Cool and finely chop the knife into fairly small pieces.
• In a greased form, put the first layer of half grated potatoes, then half of the minced fish, then a layer of broccoli. Alternate the layers until all the products run out.
• To fill, mix a couple of eggs, a glass of milk and a little salt. Stir with a whisk. Pour the casserole. Sprinkle with a little crushed breadcrumbs on top.
• Bake the dish in an oven preheated to 200 degrees (30-35 minutes).
• Cool it down. Serve with a salad of fresh cucumbers and dill.

All the nutrients that are necessary for the growth and development of the child’s body are fed in sufficient quantities. If this mode is observed, digestive problems in a child will recede into the background.

Learn more about diet number 5, you can find out by watching the following video.