When it comes to baby colds, mothers have a headache. Babies are weak and weak. If they are not careful, they are easily caught. Adults can get colds without taking medicine. However, if children want to heal themselves, it is difficult for children to catch a cold, severe colds,

mentions that baby has a cold

Mothers have a headache

Baby has weak resistance

It is easy to get caught if you don’t pay attention

Adults can get cold without taking medicine

But it is difficult for children to heal themselves if they have a cold

Severe colds and fevers

even causes pneumonia , repeated coughs

Today we will share some

Content about baby cold care

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Children have different colds than adults. Adults have a cold and are highly resistant. They can heal themselves in about a week, and they can consciously complete the treatment and water. However, children, especially babies, are particularly resistant to taking medicine, and are very sticky when they are sick. Common symptoms of colds such as nasal congestion, runny nose, tears, etc. make the child feel uncomfortable, crying and irritable, and poor appetite, which are all very troublesome. It is common for a small cold to exhaust the whole family, and we also receive a lot of such consultations at work.

share some details and precautions for parents when children catch a cold.

. Should children eat complementary foods when they have a cold?

. What should children do if they don’t eat complementary food?

. Precautions for making complementary foods when catching a cold

. Should children eat complementary foods when catching a cold?

We meet many parents of children in our work, especially babies from 6 to 18 months old. When their children have symptoms of fever or cold, they stop the children's complementary food and only give them milk. We have summarized the reasons for this:

. The child is very clingy when he is sick, and parents are very tired of caring for his children. They have no time and energy to make complementary foods

. The complementary foods are too "hard" and complementary foods are difficult to digest. They think that the child is very weak when he is sick, and cannot eat complementary foods

. The child does not eat them after he is done. It is better not to make

First of all, from the professional perspective of our guidance on supplementary food addition and feeding, when children have colds or fever symptoms, it is not recommended to stop complementary foods, including babies of 6 to 8 months old who are adding complementary foods for 6 to 8 months old, you can pause the addition of new ingredients, but do not stop complementary foods.

Why?

. The symptoms of a cold usually develop in the first place, the throat is sore, then the nasal congestion, runny nose, tears, and sometimes fever, body temperature rises, and when the body temperature drops, start coughing . The cough lasts for a long or short time, and finally recovers health.

In this process, if the immune system wants to drive away the virus, it must produce and mobilize various cells and antibodies. This process consumes a lot of energy. The human body will reduce the energy supply of other organs, especially units such as muscles that consume high energy. Therefore, when we catch a cold, we will feel very tired. If the stomach energy is insufficient, it is manifested as loss of appetite. This process also consumes a lot of water. If fever occurs, energy consumption will be greater. Many babies experience a fever and parents feel they lose weight. This is why the baby has a larger proportion of moisture in their body and is light in weight. Fever is the alienation effect of the human body over the assimilation effect, which is more obvious from the appearance.

So from this perspective, it is essential to provide children with sufficient nutrition and calories.

. Children are more likely to experience diarrhea during colds and fevers. If you take medicine, the chance of diarrhea will increase. Often, parents dare not give their children complementary food when they see their children have diarrhea. Or the child may have dry stools, difficulty in defecation, and crying and irritability due to fever. Parents may also stop complementary foods, or only give their children rice noodles, noodle soup, and noodles, which greatly reduces the amount of vegetables. We do not recommend these practices, either.If the child is sick, his energy consumption will be large. If he only gives milk to foods with high energy and nutrient density, insufficient nutritional intake may cause metabolic disorders and aggravate diarrhea.

Reasonable combination, the cooking method is suitable for children's complementary foods, and will not aggravate the child's condition and can promote children's rapid recovery of health.

2. What should I do if my child doesn’t eat it after making complementary food?

Children don’t eat it, and they must insist on making every meal. If the child wants to eat this meal, the parents don’t make it, and the child doesn’t want to eat it.

At this time, don’t pursue the children, you must eat all the food, let the children decide whether to eat and how much to eat.

What parents can do is prepare three meals and set up a comfortable and relaxed dining environment. Do not force meals, and do not coax or chase them. A normal mind is very important. It is very hard to take care of sick children, and it will be even more tiring to insist on making three meals a day. If the child doesn't eat a bite, parents will instantly feel frustrated, depressed, and even want to lose their temper. At this time, you should control your emotions and ask again if you want to eat when your child is in a good mood and condition. If the child doesn't want to eat, you don't have to force it. Just continue to do it the next day.

Especially for babies of young men, the supplementary food meals arranged every day may be one meal a day, two meals a day. The child's condition is prone to recurrence and the recovery period is long. Some parents stop the supplementary food for half a month, or stop the supplementary food, and only give the child some fruit every day, which makes the supplementary food addition process that is already slow, and the child's swallowing-chewing transition may not advance but retreat.

If you do a good job of complementary food, children will not eat it. There may be several reasons for the following:

. Nasal congestion:

We taste delicious food, not only through vision, but also through smell, so the most common symptom of colds - nasal congestion, will greatly affect children's appetite. Without the guidance of the smell, the brain will not be able to judge whether this food can be eaten or what it tastes like.

Nasal congestion will also affect the child's breathing when eating, especially for young-month-aged babies. If parents feed quickly and feed spoon after spoon, the child will not have the chance to breathe, and the eating experience is not good, and they will be unwilling to eat complementary foods.

If the child has a runny nose and is stuffy, you can spray a little sea salt water spray before eating to clean the nasal cavity, ventilate the nose, restore the sense of smell, and increase appetite.

The method of using sea salt spray should be paid attention to. If you don’t know how to use it, you can see the link below Wan Dad’s demonstration

Keep the baby away from nasal congestion and runny nose troubles. The sea salt spray should be used correctly

. The matching and cooking methods of complementary foods are inappropriate.

When you have a cold, you should eat a light diet. Parents understand it, but what is "light" and how to calculate it as "easy to digest" is different for everyone.

When you have a cold, you often feel your throat hurts, or you are congested, red, swollen and uncomfortable, so you feel strong discomfort when swallowing food. If the supplementary foods are made, there is no dry combination, for example, some parents at work make supplementary foods, but they only make egg cakes, and some vegetables are added to the eggs. It feels that children usually like to eat them and can also supplement some vegetables, but this meal is just egg cakes, nothing else. Or it is dense, for example, if you make rice + stir-fry for your child according to the normal standard of eating, you need to chew hard throughout the whole process, the child may feel uncomfortable and stop eating it, or if you are tired after eating a few bites.

. The time for complementary food is not suitable

When a child is sick, he does not need to require that the time for complementary food is so accurate. It can be arranged between breast milk, and the child is in a better mental state.In particular, do not arrange complementary food immediately after taking the medicine, or the interval between complementary food and milk is too short. Arrange complementary food immediately after taking the medicine. The child will resist taking the medicine or be forced to take the medicine and resist the food in his mouth. The interval between complementary food and milk is too short, which will easily prevent the child from eating complementary food well, waiting to drink milk or drink milk and not eating complementary food.

3. Precautions for making complementary foods when catching a cold

. First thin, then thick, first soft and then hard.

When you have a cold, your child will lose a lot of water, and it is even more difficult to let the baby drink water. Therefore, at this stage, you can add some soups to complementary foods to replenish water. It should be noted that the soup should not be made with greasy chicken soup, fish soup, or pork bone soup. You can choose tomato soup base or mushroom soup base, and combine it with some vegetables and soy products to make it.

soup and porridge should be matched with dishes and pasta as a meal, and it is dry and sparse. When eating, you can let your child drink a few sips of soup or porridge first, and then eat dishes and pasta.

Below is a meal made by our students. You can refer to it. It mainly depends on the combination of dry and sparse food. The choice of ingredients is not suitable for cold

, low-fat diet . If necessary, you can eat vegetarian food and use tofu and fungi instead of meat to supplement protein .

Children have a bad appetite during the cold, big fish and meat are too greasy, and the cooking methods of heavy oil and red sauce such as frying, frying and braising are not conducive to digestion, so be careful when making complementary foods.

You can use tofu, bean curd, dried tofu, bean curd, tofu soaked, etc., and various mushrooms instead of meat to stir-fry dishes. It can reduce the difficulty of making complementary foods, and it will not affect the taste of the dishes because they are all vegetables.

For example, the following are three meals made according to our cold recovery course. You can refer to:

. Should children eat complementary foods when they have a cold?

We meet many parents of children in our work, especially babies from 6 to 18 months old. When their children have symptoms of fever or cold, they stop the children's complementary food and only give them milk. We have summarized the reasons for this:

. The child is very clingy when he is sick, and parents are very tired of caring for his children. They have no time and energy to make complementary foods

. The complementary foods are too "hard" and complementary foods are difficult to digest. They think that the child is very weak when he is sick, and cannot eat complementary foods

. The child does not eat them after he is done. It is better not to make

First of all, from the professional perspective of our guidance on supplementary food addition and feeding, when children have colds or fever symptoms, it is not recommended to stop complementary foods, including babies of 6 to 8 months old who are adding complementary foods for 6 to 8 months old, you can pause the addition of new ingredients, but do not stop complementary foods.

Why?

. The symptoms of a cold usually develop in the first place, the throat hurts, then the nasal congestion, runny nose, tears, and sometimes fever, body temperature rises, and when the body temperature drops, you start to cough. The cough lasts for a long or short time, and finally you will recover from health.

In this process, if the immune system wants to drive away the virus, it must produce and mobilize various cells and antibodies. This process consumes a lot of energy. The human body will reduce the energy supply of other organs, especially units such as muscles that consume high energy. Therefore, when we catch a cold, we will feel very tired. If the stomach energy is insufficient, it is manifested as loss of appetite. This process also consumes a lot of water. If fever occurs, energy consumption will be greater. Many babies experience a fever and parents feel they lose weight. This is why the baby has a larger proportion of moisture in their body and is light in weight. Fever is the alienation effect of the human body over the assimilation effect, which is more obvious from the appearance.

So from this perspective, it is essential to provide children with sufficient nutrition and calories.

. Children are more likely to experience diarrhea during colds and fevers. If you take medicine, the chance of diarrhea will increase. Often, parents dare not give their children complementary food when they see their children have diarrhea. Or the child may have dry stools, difficulty in defecation, and crying and irritability due to fever. Parents may also stop complementary foods, or only give their children rice noodles, noodle soup, and noodles, which greatly reduces the amount of vegetables. We do not recommend these practices, either. If the child is sick, his energy consumption will be large. If he only gives milk to foods with high energy and nutrient density, insufficient nutritional intake may cause metabolic disorders and aggravate diarrhea.

Reasonable combination, the cooking method is suitable for children's complementary foods, and will not aggravate the child's condition and can promote children's rapid recovery of health.

2. What should I do if my child doesn’t eat it after making complementary food?

Children don’t eat it, and they must insist on making every meal. If the child wants to eat this meal, the parents don’t make it, and the child doesn’t want to eat it.

At this time, don’t pursue the children, you must eat all the food, let the children decide whether to eat and how much to eat.

What parents can do is prepare three meals and set up a comfortable and relaxed dining environment. Do not force meals, and do not coax or chase them. A normal mind is very important. It is very hard to take care of sick children, and it will be even more tiring to insist on making three meals a day. If the child doesn't eat a bite, parents will instantly feel frustrated, depressed, and even want to lose their temper. At this time, you should control your emotions and ask again if you want to eat when your child is in a good mood and condition. If the child doesn't want to eat, you don't have to force it. Just continue to do it the next day.

Especially for babies of young men, the supplementary food meals arranged every day may be one meal a day, two meals a day. The child's condition is prone to recurrence and the recovery period is long. Some parents stop the supplementary food for half a month, or stop the supplementary food, and only give the child some fruit every day, which makes the supplementary food addition process that is already slow, and the child's swallowing-chewing transition may not advance but retreat.

If you do a good job of complementary food, children will not eat it. There may be several reasons for the following:

. Nasal congestion:

We taste delicious food, not only through vision, but also through smell, so the most common symptom of colds - nasal congestion, will greatly affect children's appetite. Without the guidance of the smell, the brain will not be able to judge whether this food can be eaten or what it tastes like.

Nasal congestion will also affect the child's breathing when eating, especially for young-month-aged babies. If parents feed quickly and feed spoon after spoon, the child will not have the chance to breathe, and the eating experience is not good, and they will be unwilling to eat complementary foods.

If the child has a runny nose and is stuffy, you can spray a little sea salt water spray before eating to clean the nasal cavity, ventilate the nose, restore the sense of smell, and increase appetite.

sea salt spray should be used to pay attention to the method. If you don’t know how to use it, you can see the link below Wan Dad’s demonstration

3. Precautions for making complementary foods when catching a cold

. First thin, then thick, first soft and then hard.

When you have a cold, your child will lose a lot of water, and it is even more difficult to let the baby drink water. Therefore, at this stage, you can add some soups to complementary foods to replenish water. It should be noted that the soup should not be made with greasy chicken soup, fish soup, or pork bone soup. You can choose tomato soup base or mushroom soup base, and combine it with some vegetables and soy products to make it.

soup and porridge should be matched with dishes and pasta as a meal, and it is dry and sparse. When eating, you can let your child drink a few sips of soup or porridge first, and then eat dishes and pasta.

Below is a meal made by our students. You can refer to it. It mainly depends on the combination of dry and sparse food. The choice of ingredients is not suitable for colds.

. A low-fat diet, if necessary, you can eat vegetarian food and use tofu and mushrooms to replace meat with protein.

Children have a bad appetite during the cold, big fish and meat are too greasy, and the cooking methods of heavy oil and red sauce such as frying, frying and braising are not conducive to digestion, so be careful when making complementary foods.

You can use tofu, bean curd, dried tofu, bean curd, tofu soaked, etc., and various mushrooms instead of meat to stir-fry dishes. It can reduce the difficulty of making complementary foods, and it will not affect the taste of the dishes because they are all vegetables.

For example, the following are three meals made according to our cold recovery course. You can refer to:

. Fruits can be eaten, pay attention to the type and the amount you eat every day.

Because the child is sick and has a poor appetite and has poor eating for three meals, parents hope to use fruits to supplement nutrition, which is not advisable. The fruit tastes sweet and sour, has enough moisture and is crispy. Children like to eat it, but fruits cannot replace vegetables. Fruits can replenish a little water and nutritional calories, but the effect of sweetness on children's taste, and sugar can easily cause children to bloat and aggravate diarrhea should also be paid attention to.

fruit can be given, and a small amount will be given each time, and the amount throughout the day can be slightly less than usual. In terms of types, we should avoid high-sugar watermelons, melons, and grapes, , plum , dragon fruit, and avocados rich in fat, rich in pectin, sensitive babies may aggravate diarrhea, etc.

. Pay attention to disinfection and hygiene when making three meals. Do not heat the food repeatedly, and avoid cold food.

Be careful to disinfect and hygiene when making complementary foods. Do not heat the food repeatedly for children to eat, especially in summer, which can easily breed bacteria. I have encountered a situation where I cook one meal and let my child eat three meals at work, which is not recommended.

Children have low resistance during colds, so cold drinks and cold food should be avoided. If the temperature of the food drops faster in winter, you can use a steamer to heat water and keep the food warm in the steamer and take as much as you eat.

. Let your children drink more water. You can use fruit slices to soak in water as appropriate. Pay attention to the concentration.

You should drink more water when you have a cold, but it may be even more difficult to let your child drink boiled water at this time. Therefore, you can use apple slices and lemon slices to make the water taste a little to replenish the water. But as long as the child does not resist boiled water, don’t use this method. Be sure to pay attention to the concentration of the fruit slices soaked in water, and do not be very sweet, so as to avoid children not drinking boiled water after they recover.

In short, what you need to do during a cold is to replenish hydration and relieve the symptoms of the cold. Feel comfortable when eating. Pay attention to dry and sparse combinations and soft and hard combinations in the production of three meals. Only when the child eats well can he recover quickly.