Diet for rotavirus in children 2-3 years 4-6. What to feed a child that you can eat and drink, food

Rotavirus is called intestinal or stomach flu. Symptoms of rotavirus develop in a short period of time. Suffer from rotavirus both adults and small children. Severe disease occurs in children up to 2 years, as their immune system has not yet formed. The mainstay of treatment in adults and children is dieting.

What is rotavirus infection

Name of intestinal flu is not a medical term. In fact, rotavirus is not associated with pathogens ordinary flu. Rotaviruses cause disease.

The symptomatology that accompanies the infection, usually develops at lightning speed and is acute:

• diarrhea;
• dehydration;
• intoxication;
• vomiting;
• temperature rise;
• runny nose;
• nasal and throat pain;
• lack of appetite;
• apathy, lack of strength.

After infection, the latent period of from 1 to 5 days. Acute period is maintained for 3 - 7 days. Rotavirus is considered a childhood disease. Adults are less susceptible to this disease as their immune system is blocking viral entry. Upon infection in adults the symptoms are not as pronounced.

Often a person who has a slight intestinal disorder may not even suspect that it is infected with rotavirus.

Especially severe infection occurs in children younger than 2 years old. Chance of a chair up to 15-20 times a day, and vomiting from 3 to 25 times a day. Such an attack on the children's flanked by an immature body without dieting and drinking regime is very dangerous for the baby.

Without proper treatment and provide necessary medical assistance to children of dehydration process can lead to tragic consequences, including death. After diseases of children characterized by lactase deficiency, when milk consumption provokes frustration of a chair.

Why it is important to proper nutrition during illness?

When rotavirus disturbed intestinal epithelium, lowers its suction properties. Therefore, antibiotics are not recommended, as they further weaken the intestine, suppress useful flora. Specific antiviral agents to combat rotavirus no.

Treatment involves three main areas:

1. Maintaining water balance of the body.
2. Elimination of intoxication.
3. Dieting.

Adhere to proper nutrition when rotavirus is necessary in order not to provoke bowel irritation even more. Young children are prohibited to enter into the diet of new foods and give milk. Failure to comply with the diet, dehydration increases the risk of complications.

There may come a malabsorption, loss of nutrients due to the low resorption in the intestine that affect the work of all body systems. Thus, for example, low calcium absorbability capable provoke convulsions in children. In severe cases may require hospitalization and intravenous saline.

Rules diet in intestinal infection

Diet for rotavirus in children is essential for speedy recovery and restoration of the intestinal flora.

Compliance with the rules will help ease the unpleasant symptoms of infection and speed recovery:

• It prohibited the use of milk and dairy products derived sour porridges. Nor can we eat fruits and vegetables raw, sweets and soda. The ban on dairy products and derivatives linked to their deterioration due to digestion decrease lactobacilli. Babies who are breast-fed, you can continue to breastfeed, but give the new products is not worth it. Children bottle-appointed special mixture lactose-free and dairy-free cereal.
• Provide frequent drinking. Absolutely can not prevent dehydration. It is particularly important to monitor the babies are not very fond of drinking plain water. They should desoldering little teaspoon. From medicines appoint rehydron, special drug compensate for the lack of water and minerals. Children do not always agree to drink it because of the specific taste. You can otpaivat in the acute phase of children poorly podsaharennyh compotes, jelly, tea, chamomile and rosehip.
• Preferably, the treatment for a couple of products.
• It is customary to reduce the daily amount of food by 20%.
• should not force a child to eat through force. It can cause vomiting.
• Food should be offered to middle-sized portions.
• To clarify the diagnosis and prescribing diet, be sure to show the child's pediatrician.

drinking regime

Diet for rotavirus includes maintaining vital water balance at a desired level. Rotavirus is dangerous for children especially dehydration. With repeated episodes of diarrhea and vomiting, the body loses a significant amount of liquid and minerals disturbed water and electrolyte balance.

Every 30-40 minutes follows simple to use 40-60 mL of pure water. This will protect from the severe consequences of dehydration. You can drink fruit drinks, jelly, brewed chamomile and broth hips.

The rehydration can be used drugs (GIDROVIT, Humana, rehydron) as an adjunct therapy, are diluted with water and help neutralize infection faster maintaining water at the desired level balance.

adult treatment is usually straightforward. When indigestion body is thirsty and adult and a teenager unable to satisfy its own. Children of primary school age, and infants can not fully understand and express their needs.

Even thirsty, they are capricious, and refuses to drink water. In such cases, children desoldering water after each episode of vomiting. Throughout the propose of the day water 5-15 ml every 10-15 minutes. Forced to drink a lot in one go is not worth it. Can provoke vomiting more and aggravate the situation.

Table resolved products

Diet for rotavirus in children requires a specific set of products.

Type of	What can
Bakery products	Drying, croquet, crackers, toast
Beverages	Black tea, fruit drinks, brewed herbs (wild rose, chamomile), rice broth
meat	Chicken, rabbit, veal, turkey fillet
fish	Hake, pollock
Vegetables	Potatoes, carrots, pumpkin
Fruits	Bananas, pears
Kashi	Buckwheat, rice, semolina
Other products	Boiled eggs, cottage cheese

The list of banned products

Products, which will have to limit the consumption of:

• Fresh pastries, bread.
• Meat with a high fat content.
• Oily fish - mackerel, salmon, tuna.
• Meaty broths and soups.
• Sausage, canned, smoked products.
• Coarse grains (millet, yachka, barley).
• Dairy foods.
• Products from sour milk.
• Yellow cheeses.
• Cabbage, radish, cucumber, onions, garlic.
• Beans.
• Oranges, apricots, lemons, plums, grapes
• Sweets.
• Coffee, soda.

These products are difficult to digest, especially in the active phase of the disease. Overloading the digestive system too difficult to digest food is not recommended, therefore, for a speedy recovery is better to wait with the consumption of this kind of products.

Especially diet for breastfed babies

Diet for rotavirus in infants receiving breast milk, has its own nuances. With baby milk immunoglobulins act to promote early recovery, so to stop feeding is not required. Some infants produce very few entries and they drink it reluctantly. When rotavirus have to teach a child to drink plain clean water.

Otpaivat be small portions of 5-10 ml every 15-20 minutes.

If the child is to introduce solid foods, then add new products is not worth it. Continue to introduce new can after complete recovery and restoration. As a rule, the child, who introduced solid foods more than six months and can be offered to drink chamomile or fruit compote, in the absence of any adverse reactions to berries.

It should be guided by this rule to prevent dehydration in a young man. Number of incoming liquid must be approximately equal to its losses. After the incident the child vomiting or diarrhea should be allowed to drink at least 50 ml of fluid.

Should give it water, rather than a mixture or breast milk. If the baby refuses to drink from a bottle or feeder cup, then it is necessary to unsolder it with a spoon. It is not necessary to overfeed breast milk, it is better to try to reduce the amount of servings.

In children aged from six months to 2-2.5 years (many are now breast feed before that age) are general restrictions on diet. It should be limited to sweet, fat, milk and provoke bloating products.

Diet for children 2-3 years

Diet for rotavirus in children aged 2-3 years, aims to redress the lack of fluid and irritable bowel elimination. Typically, a child of this age the child is familiar with most of the products should be guided by the general constraints on nutrition during rotavirus.

The most important thing is to respect the drinking regime. The child must drink twice per hour about 50 ml of water. Besides water at that age could be offered berry fruit drinks, or daisy brewed rosehips, solutions of pharmaceutical agents (rehydron, Junam).

The volume portion must be less than usual. Giving to try new, even more exotic fruits and vegetables, it is prohibited. Porridge boil water, milk is excluded. For snacks can bake apples or pears, croquet give biscuits, crackers and drying.

After the decline of the active phase of infection, the normal formed stools and vomiting cease starting to include in the diet of yogurt to restore beneficial intestinal flora. Before the appointment of diet advice and inspection pediatrician for diagnosis are required.

Diet for children 4-6 years

Children 4-6 years suffer illness more consciously, because they can not only cry, but also to talk about his health, explaining that worried. Recommendations on the prohibited and permitted foods are common. This ban on dairy products, fatty, sweet.

A child of this age to understand more the need for plentiful drink. You can offer him a drink rice water or decoction of raisins and salt. Every hour should offer 80-120 ml of fluid. If necessary, give a fractional portions. can offer egg omelet or sour curd menu variety.

Diet for rotavirus in children 4-6 years has no fundamental differences from the power supply when the disease in young children. Upon infection should keep drinking regime and avoid foods that are not recommended during illness.

The consequences of malnutrition during illness

When malnutrition prolonged course of the disease, the acute phase persists for more than 3-4 days, and leads to severe consequences. Persistent vomiting and diarrhea poop organism (especially children), dehydration becomes acute.

Power forbidden foods and non-compliance with drinking regime exacerbates the situation. Such situations are possible at a late diagnosis, ignoring obvious signs of disease or parent elementary ignorance.

Failure to comply with the diet can be:

• Dehydration.
• The occurrence of chronic bowel disease.
• Malabsorption of nutrients.
• Convulsions.
• The general weakening of immunity.

They are often situations where water infants is not possible due to weeping and rejection of water.

symptoms should be aware of in such situations in which emergency call must be immediate:

• Retraction fontanelle.
• Urinary retention over 4 hours.
• Excessive sleepiness.
• Crying without tears.
• Dryness of mucous membranes.
• flecks of blood in the stool.
• The admixture of green vomit.

Such young children dehydration deadly. It requires emergency administration of saline intravenously. If timely assistance provided the consequences will be minimal. Droppers will help compensate for the lack of water, and relief will come in a couple of days.

Weekly menus for sick children

The approximate menu for the week with rotavirus looks like (breakfast, lunch, dinner, afternoon snack, dinner).

Mo .:

• dairy cereal buckwheat;
• jelly;
• soup with vegetables and bread;
• baked apple;
• mashed potatoes, meatballs steam turkey.

W .:

• scrambled eggs;
• compote of fruit or dried fruit;
• rice and steamed fillet of pollock;
• dried bread with jam;
• salad of cooked carrots, baked chicken without spice.

cf .:

• Porridge from semolina without milk;
• boiled egg;
• beef soup with meatballs;
• juice from berries, cookies croquet;
• Ear fish fillets from Hake.

Thurs .:

• Mashed carrot;
• jelly;
• cauliflower soup with meatballs rabbit;
• boiled egg;
• mashed bananas.

Fri .:

• rice porridge;
• boiled egg;
• pureed soup from vegetables with crackers;
• compote;
• stewed chicken with vegetables.

Sat .:

• buckwheat, steamed with boiling water;
• toast with jam;
• chicken soup;
• rose hips broth with cookies;
• carp baked with carrots.

Sun .:

• boiled egg, jelly;
• banana;
• pilaf with chicken without seasonings;
• apple biscuits;
• semolina with fruit.

A varied and balanced menu of dishes from the permissible products not overload the stomach and will contribute to early exit from the acute phase of the disease.

Recipes with rotavirus in children

Meals are offered at the rotavirus should be simple, without excessive spices and culinary intricacies. Do not feed the baby fried, spicy and greasy. The preferred method of handling when cooking - steaming, stewing and numb without a crust.

The most important thing is to comply with the drinking water-balance.

Drinking water can be alternated with other drinks:

• Fluid and electrolyte drink raisins: liter of water, 1/3 cup raisins, 1/3 tsp soda, 1 tsp salt 3 teaspoons Sahara. In boiling water to throw raisins and boil for 15-20 minutes. Strain and add salt, baking soda and sugar.
• Decoction of rice: 0.5 cup of rice, 2 cups of water. In boiling water, add the rice. Cook until tender. Does not express, and wipe up the water with the rice kiseleobraznogo state.
• Compote of blueberries - 0.5-1 cup blueberries fresh, dried or frozen, 1-1.5 liters of water, sugar to taste. In boiling water throw berries and cook for 15 minutes. until tender.

The basis of the diet should be porridge, light soups with meatballs, baked or boiled meat:

• dairy-free porridge - 100 g of cereals (buckwheat, rice or semolina), 600 ml of water, sugar taste. Water to boil, add barley. Stirring cook until done.
• Vegetable soup with meatballs - 2 liters of water, 5-6 potatoes, 1 large carrot, 4 tbsp. l. medium-sized macaroni, 300 g of minced meat (chicken, turkey, or a rabbit). In boiling water, add the sliced ​​potatoes, carrots. From meat to make ground beef and form small meatballs. Then throw meatballs and pasta. Add salt to taste.
• roasted turkey - turkey fillet, salt. Meat salt the little and bake in a sleeve or foil.
• Pilaf with chicken - a glass of rice, 3-4 cups of water, 2 chicken breast, carrots, salt. Fillets and cut into medium-sized carrots and boil for some time. Add a cup of rice and pour all the water. Simmer over medium heat until cooked.

When rotavirus forbidden chocolate, sweets and confectionery products with fatty creams.

Treat a child can be more useful sweets:

• Apples baked - 5-6 apples, sugar powder. Apples carefully cleaned from the cores, put into a mold and bake until done 15-20 minutes in preheated oven. Ready apples sprinkled with powdered sugar. To prepare, you can use multivarku or microwave.
• Curd pudding with banana - 500 g of curds, 2 bananas, 2 eggs, 100 g of sugar, a pinch of salt and soda, 4 tablespoons semolina. Eggs grind with cottage cheese and bananas. Add sugar, salt, baking soda. Pour the semolina. Bake in the oven or multivarka until done 30-40 minutes.

Meals after rotavirus

When rotavirus disrupted production of important intestinal enzymes responsible for breaking down lactose. Therefore, after the recession of the acute period should not consume dairy products for 3-4 weeks. Sometimes young children this period may be much longer and require additional treatment with special preparations.

Therapeutic diet for rotavirus quite hard, and leave it after the extinction of the manifestation of symptoms of infection should be smooth. During the first few weeks is better to stick to proper nutrition. Products that are not recommended in the period of illness, returned to the diet gradually. Children up to one year the introduction of complementary foods is not carried to full recovery.

With stable cessation of vomiting and diarrhea can be given to children kefir and yogurt to restore beneficial flora. Prevention of the disease includes basic hygiene principles and control over the shelf life and freshness of products.

Rotavirus affects over 100 million people a year.

About 20% of the patients are hospitalized due to severe disease. Inflammatory bowel disease worsens the general condition of the human body, reducing the absorption of nutrients and disrupting metabolism. The main and most effective method of treatment in children and adults - compliance with therapeutic diet and maintaining water balance in the vital level.

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