Nutrition rules for children with intestinal flu Bashny.Net

Gastric or intestinal influenza (rotavirus infection, rotavirus gastroenteritis) is an acute intestinal infection that develops due to infection with rotavirus. Most often, this disease occurs in the age category from six months to 2 years. Diet for rotovirus in a child is the basis of therapeutic therapy.

Information on the disease

The source of infection can be both a virus carrier that does not have symptoms of the disease, and a sick person. The incubation period of rotavirus takes 1-5 days. After that, acute symptoms appear: cramping acute abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, general malaise. The disease ends 4-7 days after the onset of acute symptoms. As a rule, a child who has had rotavirus develops a stable immunity. Since the signs of this disease are similar to the symptoms of cholera, poisoning and salmonellosis, treatment should be prescribed by a doctor.

Diet for rotavirus infection

The diet prescribed for rotavirus in a child is designed to reduce the load on the digestive organs, prevent dehydration, accelerate recovery. In fact, it is the main method of treatment (none of the drugs is able to cope with rotavirus infection).

To normalize digestion and prevent vomiting, you should adhere to a fractional diet - drink and food should be given in very small portions, but with a small interval. As a rule, in the first days there is no appetite in a sick child.

You can not force him to eat - the patient can be offered unsweetened, strong enough tea, homemade jelly, low-fat chicken broth. After the appearance of appetite, you can transfer the child to a gentle diet. Before the normalization of the stool, all products are ground, well boiled or baked without the formation of a coarse crust.

With rotavirus, cow's milk is excluded from the diet - it is an excellent breeding ground for infection. You should abandon sugar and any sweets, confectionery, black bread, raw vegetables and fruits. Also prohibited:
• Fresh bread, muffin.
• Brothy broths, borscht, shy
• Fatty meats, sausages
• Fat, salted, smoked fish, as well as canned fish
• Macaron
• Barley and pearl cereal, millet
• Radice, cabbage, radish, onions, garlic, cucumbers
• Chocolate, cocoa





Recommended products (after restoration of appetite):
• Homemade crackers from a white loaf (crusts should be trimmed before drying)
• Rice and semolina porridge on water (without oil)
• Low-fat broths
• Steam omelet (1 egg per day)
• Grated fresh cottage cheese
• Soups with boiled cereal or with well-cooked vegetables (you can cook on a weak broth)
• Steam meatballs and cutlets (fish or meat)
• Mashed carrot
• Baked apples.
• Plastic marmalade
• Dairy products (acidophilus, activia, lactobacillin, bifidoc)

Diet for rotavirus in infants

If an infant is sick, then he should not be weaned - mother's milk contains the necessary nutrients and immunoglobulins (the latter help fight infection). In the acute period from the introduction of additional complementary foods will have to refrain. If the baby eats artificial mixtures, then it should be transferred to dairy-free porridges and mixtures that do not contain lactose.

Liquid ration

As you know, with rotavirus, dehydration should not be allowed. The liquid diet includes not only water, but also teas and decoctions of dried berries (raspberry blueberries). Drink as often as possible, but little by little. Doctors during this period recommend making a solution with rehydron. Since the taste of a medicinal drink is very specific, children may refuse to drink it. In this case, you can prepare a home version of a water-volitional solution. The following ingredients will be required:
• Water - 1 litre
• Raisins - 100g
• Salt - 1 tsp.
• Soda, 0.5 tsp.
• Sugar – a little (up to 4 tsp)

Water-filled raisins are boiled for 1 hour. The cooled solution is filtered (before this, it is recommended to stretch the berries so that glucose as much as possible goes into the decoction). Mixed with salt, soda and sugar, the drink is boiled on low heat for another 2 minutes.





Source: updiet.info/