What can you eat a child with diarrhea?

Faced with diarrhea in a child, parents immediately have questions about the nutrition of the baby, because you do not want to aggravate his condition with the wrong foods. Let's understand what you can eat with diarrhea and what foods should be avoided.

Drinking a large amount of fluid will not burden the digestive tract and further irritate it. That is why solid food is limited at the time. All food should be boiled (can be steamed) and cleaned. Since the body of the child loses salt, you need to take care of their recovery.

Most helpful when diarrhea Products are:

• Drinks - salt solutions, broth hips, herbal teas, juice from apples, broth blueberries, black tea, non-carbonated mineral water in the form of heat, decoction of raisins.
• Boiled white rice.
• Liquid porridge from buckwheat, oatmeal, semolina, rice. Boil the porridge to water.
• Apples - baked, boiled.
• Carrots - in the form of mashed potatoes, grated.
• Soup with meatballs. It should be lean and slimy.
• Puree and decoctions of vegetables.
• Kissel from quince, pears, blueberries.
• White bread crackers.
• Steam omelets, cottage cheese, boiled eggs.
• Steam meatballs from lean meat and fish.

As soon as the child has diarrhea, give him only tea. This may be fennel tea or chamomile tea. Since fluid is lost in diarrhea, a lot of tea should also be given to the baby too much. To make up for the lost salts also, add sugar and a little salt to the tea, even if the taste of the drink worsens.

On the second day, you can transfer the child to a cereal or apple diet. If you decide to give the child cereals, boil them without milk, add a minimum of salt and do not add butter. You can cook baby oatmeal (25 grams of cereal, take 300 ml of water, wipe boiled porridge and salt a little) or rice (boil 30 grams of cereal until soft and mash, a little salt).

Apples can be an alternative to cereals. Peel the fruit and rub. Give the child 200-500 g of apples during the day, dividing into portions. To shredded apples can be given chopped banana. Drink during such diets can only herbal tea and mineral water.

By the third day, the child’s condition should improve. Now, the baby can be given not only cereals, but also mashed potatoes, crackers, bread, cottage cheese, eggs, lean meat. Any additions to the diet should be gradual. Foods that are digested hard (fatty meats, fried foods, chocolate, and others) cannot be given to the child during the recovery period.

With diarrhea in a bottle-fed baby and older children who are already familiar with food, should be fed like this:

• On the first day, give fennel tea, in which a teaspoon of glucose and a small splash of salt are added for every 100 ml.
• This tea should be given to the baby twice, and the third method is to make diluted rice powder (per 4 ml of water, take 4 grams of powder), to which a teaspoon of glucose is added. Analog - homemade rice water for diarrhea.
• On the second day, you can only give rice powder, to which you can add carrots.
• If on the third day the condition of the child is better and the temperature is absent, you can return to normal feeding.

Babies can make carrot soup. First, fresh carrots (500 g) are boiled in water (1 l) for two hours, adding a little salt. Water is added to cooked carrots rubbed through a sieve to bring the volume of soup to one liter. Giving such a soup can be a bottle.

If the baby receives only breast milk, breastfeeding is not necessary to stop.

• Adding salt to meals will help resist dehydration by retaining fluid in the body.
• To add strength to a child, he should be given protein foods, such as boiled chicken, boiled eggs, steam omelette, or turkey.
• Since raw fruits and vegetables can increase diarrhea, hot processing is recommended - cooking soups, decoctions, baking.
• Plant foods (apples, quinces, blueberries and others) due to the content of tannins helps to reduce the inflammatory process in the intestines. Most fruits, especially apples, have properties to resist rotting in the intestines. In addition, fruits contain pectins, which reduce the fluid in the intestinal contents, due to which the stool is normalized.
• Vitamin A contained in carrots will help to quickly restore the intestinal mucosa.
• The presence of potassium in bananas, potatoes and fruit juices will help replenish the waste of this important macronutrient for diarrhea.

It is not recommended to use:

• Very cold food, like very hot. Such food will be an additional irritant to the digestive tract.
• Products that have caffeine.
• Fatty foods, including fried foods.
• Carbonated drinks. They will cause additional gas formation in the intestines.
• Milk products. The baby's intestines with diarrhea are hard to digest.
• Nuts, whole grains, bran. Such products can also irritate the digestive tract.
• Raw vegetables, as well as raw fruits.
• Tomato, pineapple, citrus juice.
• Legumes
• Canned and smoked products.
• Jam, honey, chocolate and other sweets.
• Dishes with spices or spices.