Diet for children with rotavirus infection

Food for child with rotavirus infection, is one of the methods of treatment. If the diet is correct, it will speed up the process of recovery and protect against dehydration.

Nutritional considerations for rotavirus infection:

• Feed a child with rotavirus infection should be fractional. Drinks and food that is allowed to eat are given in small portions with small intervals between meals.
• If your child has lost his appetite, which often happens in the first days of this disease, do not force it. Periodically offer crumbs drinks and light meals. And when the baby wants to eat, give food according to the therapeutic diet.
• Until the end of the diarrhea, all food should be steamed or boiled well, and also thoroughly chopped.
• When infection in infants take into account the type of feeding. If the child is fed with milk formula, then for the time of illness she is advised to be replaced with mixtures with a reduced lactose content. Breast-feeding it is not necessary to stop with this infection.
• On the first day of illness, a child can be fed according to the BRYAS principle - according to this abbreviation, a baby can be given a banana (ripe), rice (boiled), apples (in the form of mashed potatoes) and crackers.

In the diet of the baby suffering from rotavirus infection, you can leave:

• Semolina, oatmeal, buckwheat and rice porridge, boiled in vegetable broth or water, without sugar and butter;
• Low-fat broth, which can be a handful of rice or well-cooked vegetables;
• Steam omelette;
• Freshly grated cottage cheese;
• Steamed fish or meatballs;
• Baked apples without peel;
• Dairy products (low-fat);
• Fruit marmalade (better cooked at home);
• Homemade croutons from loaf crumb;
• Boiled vegetables.

At the time of illness from the child’s menu exclude

• Fat broth and soup;
• Fatty meats;
• Sausages and sausages;
• Raw fruits and vegetables (especially onions, cabbage, cucumber and other foods rich in fiber);
• Cocoa and chocolate;
• Pasta;
• Baking;
• Sweets;
• Fresh black bread;
• Pearl barley, barley and millet porridge;
• Fat fish and canned fish;
• Nuts;
• Mushrooms;
• Any smoked and pickled products.

When the symptoms begin to fade, you can give the baby rice water, jelly, rosehip compote, apple and carrot compote, and dried blueberry fruit compote. Carbonated drinks and tea with milk from the diet of the child should be excluded.

Pour into a liter of water two tablespoons of sugar, stir, add baking soda and salt in a teaspoon, stir again. Give this solution every five minutes in a small amount.

Boil a third of a glass of raisins in a liter of water for 60 minutes, and then cool. When filtering the raisins, which will remain in the sieve, knead well, so that more glucose gets into the broth. Add 4 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to the drink. The taste of this drink is very pleasant and children drink it with pleasure.

For a sufficient recovery of the digestive tract after an illness for at least 2 weeks after recovery, the following products should be limited:

• Drinks and dishes with low temperature, for example, ice cream;
• Dishes from legumes;
• Rye bread;
• Beetroot;
• Millet porridge;
• Whole milk.

If the child is sick during the introduction of complementary foods, return to the samples of new products should be no earlier than one month.