5 nutritious medicinal foods to take care of children with chickenpox

Chickenpox is a contagious viral disease.Varicella Zostercaused, has the potential to spread into an epidemic. The disease occurs in all ages, including infants, but about 90% of cases occur in children under 10 years old.

Typical symptoms include: Fever, blister-like rash on the skin and mucous membranes. The course is usually benign, but can sometimes cause death due to serious complications such as encephalitis and pneumonia.

The main route of transmission is the respiratory route through droplets of saliva expelled from the mouth of an infected person. A small number of cases are transmitted through the skin through contact with the blisters. The period of contagion begins 24 hours before the rash appears and lasts until the blisters crust over (average 7-10 days).

Traditional medicine describes the clinical manifestations of chickenpox in the range of symptoms of water flower, water blister, water sang, phu chan, water flower nhi. The cause of the disease is often due to wind-heat toxins invading the body, through the nose and mouth, causing dysfunction of the lungs, creating red lesions with clear blisters or toxic pathogens invading the air causing cloudy blisters.

The blister-like rash caused by chickenpox can also appear in the mouth, making it difficult for the patient to eat and drink. Therefore, the patient should eat soft, easy-to-swallow foods that are nutritious enough to help the body increase resistance and quickly fight off the disease.

Treatment with traditional medicine mainly aims to clear wind and heat, detoxify, and cool the blood. Some studies have shown that traditional medicine helps reduce fever, fight viruses, and regulate immunity, contributing to improving the disease.

In addition to taking medication as prescribed by the doctor, chickenpox patients can use some dishes made from the following medicinal herbs to support treatment.

Blisters on the skin caused by chickenpox.

1. Red bean and coix seed porridge helps detoxify people with chickenpox.

Main ingredients:100g rice, 30g red beans, 20g coix seed, 30g Smilax glabra.

How to prepare:Wash rice, red beans and coix seed with clean water, wash Smilax glabra. Then put the ingredients in a pot, add clean water and cook over low heat for 10 - 20 minutes. Do not open the lid during cooking. You can add a little sugar to make it easier to eat. Eat instead of rice 2 - 5 times a day as desired (eat continuously for 2 - 3 days).

Uses:Red beans and coix seeds help detoxify, suitable for people with fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Red bean and barley porridge is good for people who are tired and have loss of appetite.

2. Lotus seed and honeysuckle porridge

Main ingredients:Honeysuckle 30g, rice 60g, lotus seeds 30g.

How to prepare:Wash honeysuckle, boil to get the water, cook porridge with washed rice and lotus seeds. When the porridge is cooked, add a little sugar or salt.

Uses:Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood, treating fever, sore throat, cough, dry mouth and thirst, helping people with chickenpox feel more comfortable.

Lotus seeds, ingredients for lotus seed porridge, honeysuckle nourishes the health of people with chickenpox.

3. Mulberry soup

Main ingredients:Mulberry leaves, beef, pork or shrimp.

How to prepare:The leaves used to make soup must be young shoots, not damaged by insects. When picked, the leaves are lightly crushed so that when cooked they will be softer, more fragrant and more flavorful, then washed and sliced ​​into bite-sized pieces. Then cooked with beef, pork or shrimp, seasoned with a little cooking oil and seasoning powder.

Uses:Mulberry leaves have the effect of reducing heat stroke, treating high fever, thirst, headache, and dry cough.

4. Malabar spinach and mussel soup

Main ingredients:100g mussel meat, 200g spinach.

How to prepare:Clean the mussels and boil them. Use the mussel broth to make soup, add the mussel meat, season with fish sauce to taste, then add the washed and roughly crushed spinach, bring to a boil again and it's done. Eat with meals.

Uses:Malabar spinach leaves have the effect of clearing heat, enriching blood, detoxifying, treating fever, cough, rash, acne, constipation, difficult urination...

Malabar spinach and mussel soup cools and detoxifies...

5. Cooling soup

Main ingredients:Water chestnut, green beans, young bamboo shoots, carrots, and cogon roots, each from 20 - 30g.

How to prepare:Wash water chestnuts, green beans, young bamboo shoots, carrots, and cogon roots, put them in a pot and cook with 1 liter of water. When there is about 650ml left, turn off the stove and let it cool. Can be used with meals.

Uses:Water chestnuts, green beans, young bamboo shoots and cogon roots have the effect of clearing heat, reducing fire, nourishing yin, suitable for people with chickenpox with high fever, hot body, restlessness and discomfort./.