Can chickenpox eat kelp?

Chickenpox is also a highly contagious skin disease. With the development of medical technology, the incidence of chickenpox has been greatly reduced, but chickenpox still occurs in some people. After contracting chickenpox, you should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and eat less spicy and irritating foods, as these foods will aggravate the condition. But it is well known that this food is very good for the human body, but can we eat kelp during the chickenpox period?

Chickenpox diet should be light and diuretic

1. Foods rich in crude fiber. Leafy vegetables such as cabbage, celery, spinach, bean sprouts, etc. contain more crude fiber, which can help children clear heat from the body.

2. Give children plenty of water to drink. During the chickenpox period, sick children may have dry stools due to fever and need to drink enough water. If children do not like plain water, they can drink more watermelon juice, fresh pear juice, fresh orange juice, tomato juice, etc.

3. Let children eat more foods that have the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Vegetables such as spinach, amaranth, shepherd's purse, bamboo shoots, lettuce, and wild rice stem are all good choices. As for beans such as winter soybeans, black beans, red beans, mung beans, and broad beans, they have the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis.

Don't eat 4 kinds of food when your baby has chickenpox

Pork: A warming and nourishing food. Chickenpox is an acute herpes infectious disease. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is an exogenous virus and that it is more suitable to purge rather than supplement for actual symptoms. Therefore, children with chickenpox should not eat pork.

Lamb: It is warm in nature and can replenish qi and nourish the body, but chickenpox is a viral infectious disease. The "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" believes that people who have contracted external pathogens should avoid eating mutton, and so children with chickenpox should also avoid it.

Eggs: When children have chickenpox, it is appropriate to eat a light diet.

Cinnamon: commonly known as cassia bark and official cinnamon, it is a commonly used spice in the folks. It is very hot in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and is a purely yang substance. Its warmth helps fire, while its dryness hurts yin.

In addition, parents are reminded that their children should avoid eating ginger, scallions, garlic, onions, leeks, chili peppers, pepper, mustard greens, coriander, shiitake mushrooms, pumpkin, toon, goose, shrimp, hairtail, cucumber, lychee, longan meat, plums, apricots, dates, persimmons, pomegranates, cherries, chestnuts, as well as fried peanuts, fried broad beans, fried melon seeds, glutinous rice cakes, fat, lard, fennel, curry, mustard, etc. during the period when their children suffer from chickenpox.

Here are some recipes that can clear away heat and promote diuresis

1. Bamboo shoots and coix seed porridge

Bamboo shoots cooked with glutinous rice into porridge have the effects of invigorating qi, clearing away heat and removing dampness. It can be used as a supplementary diet for the treatment of children with chickenpox.

Ingredients: 60 grams of japonica rice, 50 grams of fresh bamboo shoots, and 30 grams of coix seeds.

practice:

(1) Wash all ingredients, slice the fresh bamboo shoots, and put them into the pot.

(2) Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer until the porridge is cooked.

2. Mung bean and kelp soup

The soup made from kelp and mung beans can clear away heat and detoxify, and has the effect of promoting diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for chickenpox in children.

Ingredients: 50 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of dried kelp, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

practice:

(1) Soak mung beans in water for 30 minutes; soak kelp and cut into small pieces.

(2) Place kelp and mung beans into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer until well-cooked.

(3) Add brown sugar.