Diet for enterovirus infection

Diet for enterovirus infection is of great importance in complex treatment, since the source of the disease is in the patient’s intestines.

Enterovirus infection is a whole group of acute infectious diseases caused by intestinal viruses. After infection, there is an incubation period of one to ten days, and then the disease manifests itself in a sharp, acute form. Mandatory manifestations of fever - an increase in temperature; severe weakness and chills; pain in the muscles and joints. Sometimes there is reddening of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, the appearance of a mild cough or runny nose; the lymph nodes, spleen and liver are slightly enlarged. Later, usually after a decrease in temperature, a rash appears - pink spots that bother the patient for several hours. Vesicles appear on the palate, throat and tonsils, on the hands and feet of the patient; conjunctivitis appears. Nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain are possible.

The infection affects the respiratory tract, cardiovascular and central nervous system, musculoskeletal system. Therefore, manifestations of meningitis, encephalitis, pharyngitis or catarrh of the respiratory tract, bronchiolitis or pneumonia, acute myocarditis and pericarditis, pleurodynia - sharp pains in the muscles of the patient's body, which are paroxysmal in nature, are possible.

The diet for enterovirus infection is prescribed by the attending physician. It must be strictly followed, since the patient's recovery results largely depend on the correctness of the diet.

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Treatment of enterovirus infection with diet

The diet of a patient with enterovirus infection is quite strict. In addition, it is necessary to take care of the correct consumption of food and liquid by the patient.

• With enterovirus infection, there is a high risk of dehydration due to frequent vomiting or diarrhea in the patient. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a plentiful drinking regimen to replenish fluid loss in the body.
• Enterovirus infection causes intoxication of the body. Therefore, drinking plenty of fluids is the primary means of removing toxins from the intestines. It is also necessary to introduce into the patient's diet those products that help remove toxins from the body.
• It is necessary to remove from the diet those foods that promote increased intestinal peristalsis.
• Food should be light and quickly digestible.
• Food should be liquid or pureed.
• The food that the patient eats should not be hot or cold. The best food for the patient is warm.
• At the onset of infection, a strict diet is prescribed, which consists mainly of porridge on water, vegetable soups and purees, baked apples and plenty of fluids.
• After the acute period has passed, after two to three weeks, you can add other products and dishes to the above list that are permitted for this disease.
• Dietary nutrition should be maintained for a long time after the infection and recovery from the disease. The duration of the diet and the necessary products for consumption are prescribed by the attending physician.

Treatment of enterovirus infection with diet has proven its effectiveness. Medication alone, without changing the diet, cannot achieve recovery of the patient.

What is the diet for enterovirus infection?

In order to choose the right food for the patient, you need to decide what kind of diet is appropriate for enterovirus infection?

The principles of diet for enterovirus infection are as follows:

• It is important to prevent dehydration, which can occur as a result of the patient being infected with enterovirus. Therefore, it is recommended to drink a small amount of water every hour. The patient should drink at least two liters of liquid per day.
• It is necessary to completely exclude fried foods.
• You can eat food that was prepared by boiling, baking in the oven, or steaming.
• You should not eat smoked, spicy or salty foods.
• Fatty foods are prohibited.
• Low-fat foods are used instead of foods with high fat content.
• Dairy products are completely excluded.
• Products that increase intestinal peristalsis are excluded from the patient’s diet.
• You can't eat fresh vegetables and fruits. Instead, you can eat baked, stewed and boiled vegetables and fruits.
• Meals should be fractional. It is necessary to organize at least 5-6 meals a day, during which a small amount of food is eaten.
• Sometimes enterovirus infection is accompanied by putrefactive processes in the intestines. Because of this, toxic substances are released into the patient's body. To remove them from the body, baked apples must be introduced into the patient's daily diet.

Diet for enterovirus infection in adults

The diet for enterovirus infection in adults should be structured accordingly:

1. Drink plenty of fluids, at least two liters a day. The liquid should be given warm and taken in small portions, but often, for example, every half hour.
2. It is good to drink compotes and decoctions of dried fruits without added sugar, weak green tea, still mineral water, and purified boiled water.
3. In nutrition at the very beginning of the disease, it is necessary to give preference to liquid porridges on water - buckwheat, rice. Liquid or vegetable-mashed soups are also good. This food is easily absorbed by the body and does not cause discomfort to the patient's intestines.
4. After some time, you can add liquid mashed potatoes and mashed potatoes from approved vegetables.
5. It is necessary to ensure that the patient eats a certain amount of baked apples every day. This fruit is able to bind toxins that are released in the intestines and remove them from the body.
6. After the acute phase of the disease has passed, during the recovery period, when the patient’s appetite begins to appear, the following foods and dishes can be introduced into his diet:
   • white bread croutons;
   • biscuit cookies;
   • dishes made from lean meat - rabbit, turkey, veal, which are steamed;
   • steamed omelettes;
   • jelly.

Such products should be introduced into the patient's diet no earlier than two to three weeks after the onset of the disease. Each product should be introduced gradually, monitoring the body's reaction to the new dish.

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Diet for enterovirus infection in children

The diet for enterovirus infection in children corresponds to the following principles:

1. In children, when this disease occurs, dehydration occurs very quickly. Therefore, it is recommended to drink plenty of fluids - every half hour the child should drink a certain amount of liquid. The total daily amount of water should be at least two liters.
2. For children who are breastfed, the amount of liquid consumed per day is calculated as follows. During the day, the baby should consume: the usual volume of breast milk, plus the usual daily volume of liquid consumed, to which is added the volume of liquid lost through diarrhea or vomiting.
3. You need to give your baby small portions of water: infants - from a spoon, and older children - from a cup.
4. The liquid, especially water, that the child drinks should be warm.
5. When an enterovirus infection occurs, the body becomes intoxicated very quickly. To remove toxins, it is recommended to drink a large amount of liquid, and not just water. It is good to give the child uzvars - decoctions of dried fruits; compotes, fruit drinks, and still mineral water.
6. The total daily amount of food consumed should be somewhat reduced. However, complete starvation is not beneficial in this case.
7. The child needs to follow a fractional feeding regime. Children need to be fed at least five times a day (preferably six) in small portions.
8. Preference should be given to light and quickly absorbed into the intestinal walls food - liquid mashed potatoes and vegetables; vegetable soups; liquid porridges on water.
9. Food should be warm – heated to 33 – 36 degrees.

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Diet menu for enterovirus infection

The diet menu for enterovirus infection is very simple. The entire daily food ration should be divided into 5-6 meals. An approximate menu for the initial, acute stage of the disease looks like this:

1. Breakfast – liquid buckwheat or rice porridge; green tea without sugar with biscuits or white bread rusks.
2. Second breakfast – baked apples; baked pears.
3. Lunch – vegetable soup; vegetable puree soup; vegetable soup with cereals; mashed potatoes; vegetable puree.
4. Afternoon snack – dried fruit compote or uzvar with white bread croutons or biscuits.
5. Dinner: liquid buckwheat or rice porridge.

After the patient starts to recover, but not earlier than two weeks later, other dietary dishes can be introduced into the diet. An approximate menu for this period looks like this:

1. Liquid buckwheat or rice porridge; green tea without sugar with white bread croutons.
2. Second breakfast – baked apples or pears; or jelly.
3. Lunch – vegetable soup (or vegetable puree soup, or vegetable soup with cereals); steamed cutlets, meatballs, quenelles, meatballs made from turkey, veal, chicken (or boiled rabbit meat, boiled poultry); mashed potatoes or mashed potatoes from permitted vegetables.
4. Afternoon snack - uzvar or compote of dried fruits with biscuits.
5. Dinner – steamed egg omelette without milk; or liquid buckwheat/rice porridge; chamomile tea without sugar.

Diet recipes for enterovirus infection

1. Dried fruit liqueur.

Ingredients: 200 grams of dried apples, 200 grams of dried pears, 100 grams of honey, three liters of water.

Preparation:

• dried fruits must be washed and soaked in cold water for ten minutes;
• Pour three liters of water into a saucepan and add dried fruits;
• simmer for half an hour;
• after this you need to let the uzvar cool down to a temperature of 60 degrees;
• add honey and stir;
• cover with a lid and wrap up to let the drink steep;
• leave for two to three hours, then strain;
• drink warm.

2. Vegetable soup.

Ingredients: two potatoes, one medium onion, one medium carrot, one and a half liters of water, salt.

Preparation:

• wash the potatoes and carrots, peel them;
• cut the potatoes into small cubes;
• grate the carrots;
• peel the onion and chop it finely, as for frying;
• boil water and throw potatoes in;
• boil for ten minutes and add onion and carrots, then salt;
• Cook the soup for 7-10 minutes, then remove it from the heat, cool to a temperature of 33 - 36 degrees and serve to the patient.

3. Steamed turkey cutlets.

Ingredients: 600 grams of turkey, 100 ml of water, four pieces of stale white bread, one onion, one egg, salt.

Preparation:

• the bread needs to be peeled of its crust and soaked in water;
• the onion must be peeled and cut into small pieces;
• turkey meat should be passed through a meat grinder together with onions;
• beat an egg into the resulting minced meat and add salt;
• mix the resulting mass well and start forming cutlets;
• in a steamer, cutlets are cooked for forty-five minutes;
• if you don’t have a steamer at home, you can use a shallow pan, into which you need to place the cutlets and add a little boiling water;
• The pan needs to be covered with a lid and the cutlets allowed to simmer over low heat for twenty minutes.

4. Mashed potatoes with vegetables.

Ingredients: two potatoes, half an onion, half a medium carrot, salt

Preparation:

• wash the potatoes and carrots, peel them;
• cut vegetables into cubes and boil in water for 10 minutes;
• Peel the onion, cut into small pieces and add to the vegetables, add salt;
• cook the vegetables for another 10 minutes;
• drain some of the water and beat the remaining water and vegetables with a mixer or blender;
• cool the dish to a temperature of 35 degrees and serve to the patient.

Recipes for a diet for enterovirus infection can also be used for other intestinal diseases. Since gentle nutrition is the basis of a restorative diet for intestinal diseases and disorders.

Diet for enterovirus infection is one of the means of treating the disease, along with medication. If the patient's diet was organized correctly, the patient will soon feel signs of recovery. And then, he will completely recover, avoiding a severe form of the disease and possible complications.

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What can you eat if you have an enterovirus infection?

If you ask yourself: "What can you eat with an enterovirus infection?", you will see that the list of permitted products is quite meager. And, nevertheless, when treating an enterovirus infection, you need to adhere to a strict diet. So, when you are sick, you can eat and drink:

• Lean meats that need to be boiled – chicken, turkey, veal, rabbit.
• Porridges cooked in water – buckwheat, rice.
• Boiled vegetables – potatoes, onions, carrots.
• Mashed potatoes and mashed vegetables from approved vegetables.
• Liquid vegetable soups, pureed soups, cereal soups.
• Biscuit cookies.
• Wheat bread croutons.
• Baked apples and pears.
• Uzvar is a decoction of dried fruits.
• Compote of dried blueberries.
• Weak green tea without sugar.
• Chamomile tea.
• Rice water as a drink.
• Still mineral water.

What should you not eat if you have an enterovirus infection?

Products that increase intestinal peristalsis, as well as heavy products, are excluded from the diet of a patient with enterovirus infection:

• Fresh vegetables, fruits and berries.
• Beets, cabbage in any form.
• Fatty meats – pork, beef, lamb, duck.
• Fatty fish of the salmon variety.
• Eggs.
• Flour products and baked goods – black bread in any form, fresh bread, buns, cookies, waffles, pasta.
• Confectionery products – cakes, pastries, etc.
• Sweets – chocolate, candies, marmalade, marshmallows, halva and others.
• Oatmeal, as it increases fermentation processes in the intestines.
• Millet and pearl barley porridge.
• Smoked meats, pickles and marinades.
• Meat broths and soups prepared with their help.
• Fried dishes and complex dishes that involve frying foods.
• Dairy products – milk, kefir, fermented baked milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, cream, butter.
• Juices - canned and freshly prepared.
• Carbonated drinks, including carbonated mineral water.
• Legumes – beans, peas, lentils, etc. – are excluded from the diet.
• Vegetable oils and lard.

The list of what you can't eat with an enterovirus infection is quite long. But this is a necessary measure that will lead to a speedy recovery of the patient and reduce the severity of possible complications.