Question
What should a child with hand, foot, and mouth disease eat?
Answer
Children with hand, foot, and mouth disease often experience fever and oral sores, leading to decreased appetite. It is advisable to provide them with light, mild, easy-to-digest, and tasty liquid or semi-liquid foods. It’s important to avoid cold, spicy, and salty foods that may be irritating. Suitable foods include: mung beans, red beans, mung bean sprouts, lily bulbs, chrysanthemum brains, small cucumbers, winter melon, bitter melon, lotus root, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, fresh lotus root, red and white carrots, chrysanthemum leaves, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, celery, fresh pears, snow pears, kiwi fruit, grapes, grapes, cherries, strawberries, etc.