5 strokes in summer bring good appetite

Summer heat is really unambiguous. Parents who have children at home need to prepare for summer cooling. Children can wear, sleep, use heatstroke prevention, and of course eat less. This is something parents should worry about every day.

"Yuxia" affects children's appetite

In the hot summer days, many people’s appetites will fall. There is a Chinese name for “疰夏” in Chinese medicine, which means that in the summer, some physically and mentally weak old people and children suffer from fatigue, dizziness, and irritability due to the heat of summer heat. Excessive sweating or hypothermia are clinically characterized exogenous fever.

Because the child's central nervous system is not yet fully developed, body temperature regulation and sweat excretion are much less than adults. For these children, we must not only give them a comfortable and cool living environment from the home environment, but also need to be properly allocated to ensure that children enjoy the health and happiness through summer heat.

Five principles of summer diet

1. Spleen and dampness should be used in summer, and seasonal supplements should be used.

For the summer diet, people generally have the impression that they are less plentiful and indifferent. In fact, nature also gives people many foods in the summer, and many foods can help clear the heat, such as lotus seeds, lotus roots in the pond, and watermelons in the fields. , melon, eggplant, tomato, loofah, bitter gourd, cucumber on the vine, colorful, all in time to debut in the summer, enough to enrich the child's summer table.

Many young parents may not be able to figure out which ingredients are light, which ingredients children can eat more in the summer, which should eat less. To this end, on the part of the seasonal ingredients mentioned above, briefly introduce the efficacy and precautions.

Melon: sweet, light, cool, diuretic, Xiaoyu, heat, detoxification effect. It is also simple to make, gourd washed, peeled, simmered, cut into small cubes, can be fried, can also be soup, put some dried shrimps and taste better together, but also can add calcium and salt.

Loofah: sweet, cool, meridian, expectorant, cough. Fresh gourd peeled and sliced ​​to scrambled eggs, fried soybeans, or made into loofah egg soup, also very delicious.

Mung bean: sweet, cool, detoxification, heat, water benefit. Mung beans washed, soaked and cooked with water, can add a little rock sugar, lily, not only taste good, refreshing effect is also good, but mung bean is cold, weak spleen and stomach people should not eat.

Tomato: Sweet and sour, thirst, stomach digestion, can be called an appetizer. Can be fried, soup can be eaten raw. However, it should be noted that immature tomatoes contain large amounts of alkaloids, and food poisoning may occur. In addition, it is best not to eat tomatoes on an empty stomach, because a large amount of pectin is easy to synthesize difficult-to-dissolve blocky stones with gastric acid.

2. Animal foods are necessary for children every day.

In order to ensure the child's nutrition, in addition to these seasonal fruits and vegetables suitable for summer consumption, we must provide enough animal food ingredients to supplement the growth of protein, minerals and other nutrients. Balancing meals is a prerequisite for the healthy growth of children. Do not reduce animal foods because the summer meal needs to be light. This is what children need every day. White meat can be selected in summer, including poultry (chicken, duck, geese, etc.), fish, crustaceans (shrimp, etc.) or bivalves (oysters, clams, etc.), which are rich in protein and have low fat content. The content of unsaturated fatty acids in fat is high, and contains a variety of trace elements, suitable for people with weak gastrointestinal function in summer.

Nowadays, the variety of food on the market is very rich. Everyone can choose their ingredients and practices according to their own eating habits and provide their children with a varied diet. In order to facilitate the actual operation, here I talk about two children's recipes for your reference.

Recipe 1 Breakfast: 1 bottle of milk, 1 vegetable bag

Lunch: Cocoon Night Flowering Noodles

Dim Sum: Mung Bean Porridge

Dinner: Rice + Onion Beef + Shrimp melon soup

Recipe 2 Breakfast: 1 bottle of milk, 1 roll

Lunch: Vegetable meat dishes (pork, chicken feathers, potatoes)

Dim Sum: Bee Cake

Dinner: Rice + fried fish fillet + loofah gluten soup

3. Prevent food allergies.

For children with food allergies, the choice of ingredients needs special attention. Foods that have experienced allergies in the past should try their best not to choose foods that have never been tried before. It is best to start with a small amount when trying for the first time.

The most common foods that cause allergies in the body are the following: milk, eggs, seafood, peanuts, nuts, wheat bran, mangoes and pineapples. The clinical manifestations of food allergies vary from person to person, some occur within minutes to half an hour after eating, and some occur two to three days later. The type and severity of the symptoms are not the same. Mild cases have only a small amount of rash. Severe symptoms may include severe vomiting, diarrhea, bloody stools, general urticaria, difficulty breathing, or even shock. Most food allergies occur mainly in infants up to 1 year of age, and food allergies gradually decrease after age 2. However, some food allergies are not prone to self-healing, and severe allergies often occur after exposure, and are likely to continue for life, such as peanuts, nuts and so on. Therefore, in the summer, children who are allergic to peanuts and nuts must pay special attention to the choice of sauce. Severe allergies should be sent to the emergency department in time to avoid delays in the best emergency time.

4. Prevent intestinal diseases.

Hot and humid summers are the season of high incidence of bowel diseases, because bacterial viruses reproduce very rapidly in this environment, especially on the surface of nutritious foods. Fresh foods are prone to spoilage at room temperature. Bacteria can also grow on surfaces such as knives and chopping boards. Contamination can easily occur during the manufacturing process. To prevent illness from entering the mouth, try this:

● Purchase fresh ingredients and prepare meals according to the family's food intake. Try not to leave leftovers. If leftovers should be refrigerated, they must be boiled before serving. Note that leafy dishes and seafood should not be eaten overnight.

● Food should be heated and cooked before eating. Some foods must be burned thoroughly before they can be eaten, such as green beans, in which saponin and phytohemagglutinin can cause poisoning. If you do cold dishes, pay attention to raw and cooked separately, cutlery utensils disinfection, as far as possible to eat now.

● Do not bring children to buy food at a street vendor without a valid vendor.

● Do not allow children to eat too much oily food in the summer. Eat more food should not be digested.

If you have inadvertently eat unclean foods, symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting need to be treated promptly. When you see a doctor, you should tell the doctor exactly when you eat, the type of food, and the source of food. Because some gastrointestinal symptoms may not cause diarrhea, and the condition progresses. Rapidly, it is easy to delay diagnosis and timing of treatment. Be vigilant.

5. Anti-nutrients are lost with excessive sweat.

Summer temperatures are high, and the body regulates body temperature through the secretion of sweat. Therefore, sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon of the human body, and it is also an important part of the body to maintain balance. Never limit children's activities because of excessive sweating. Because children's autonomic regulatory function is not perfect, but also in the period of vigorous growth and development, the basal metabolic rate is high, consumption is large, so sweating is often more than adults. They are particularly prone to sweating when they are active, eating too quickly, and having fun. Summers are more likely to sweat. Some children will see the mousse of sweat from the head and shoulders when they fall asleep, commonly known as steamer heads. These are mostly physiological phenomena. However, a large amount of sweat can easily lead to the loss of water and sodium, potassium and other minerals, severe dehydration, hyponatremia, low potassium, long-term large sweat can also lead to the body's zinc and other trace elements to reduce, resulting in zinc deficiency The clinical manifestations. Therefore, the first summer to ensure that the child's water supply, in addition to water supplements after going out activities, you can also give your child to eat a salt ice lolly or a bowl of bean soup, not only relieve summer heat and thirst, but also can be properly added to the loss of salt and sugar.

Of course, it is not recommended that children be given regular sugar-rich drinks and cold drinks. When the weather is hot, parents can make ice-cold mung bean soup, make homemade multicolored smoothies with fresh seasonal fruits, or use milk, yoghurt, etc. to add colored fruits. Fruit shakes, etc. to give the children a good summer, both delicious, and good-looking. Therefore, for children, the summer diet must not only eat right, eat well, but also eat interesting.

Wen Yao/Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Immunology and Child Protection, Pediatric Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University Yao Haili

Expert Profile

Yao Haili, deputy chief physician of Department of Immunology and Child Protection, Pediatric Hospital of Fudan University, has been engaged in clinical, scientific research, and teaching of children's health care for more than 20 years. She has been to the Buffalo Children's Hospital of the State University of New York for immunization. Research and research on allergic diseases. Good at diagnosis and treatment of children allergies, low immunity, malnutrition, lack of nutrients, rickets, stunting, hyperactivity disorder, autism, high-risk children (preterm, low birth weight, etc.) growth monitoring guidance.

This article was authorized by the New Age Press and was taken from "For Children" magazine.

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