Can baby have a fever eat egg

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Mother consultation: heard that the baby can not eat eggs when fever, is it true? There is a saying on the Internet that eggs will aggravate the fever, so it is suggested that the baby should not eat eggs when he has a fever. Nutritionists believe that there is no scientific basis for this statement, we should correctly understand the nutritional value of eggs.

Can baby have a fever eat egg

When a fever occurs, the metabolism of the human body is accelerated, the decomposition of protein in the body is accelerated, more water is drunk, more urination, more perspiration and other measures are taken to help the recovery, at the same time, the output of B vitamins and vitamin C is greatly increased. After taking a variety of drugs, drug metabolism also needs to consume B vitamins. It can be seen that it is helpful for patients to supplement various nutrients contained in eggs when they have a fever. 　

Fever weakens the activity of digestive enzymes, leading to a decline in the function of digesting food, which may lead to loss of appetite. At this time, the diet should be light, easy to digest, moderate and nutritious. You can eat cereals rich in carbohydrates, some fresh vegetables and fruits to maintain or improve the body's immunity and restore health. Therefore, in addition to the special taboos, patients who really can't eat eggs can normally eat 1-2 eggs a day, as well as moderate intake of milk, livestock meat, fish and shrimp, instead of including all feverish people in the list of "feverish people can't eat eggs".

In fact, the utilization rate of protein in eggs is very high in the human body, which can be measured by the biological value (the biological value is an indicator of the degree of utilization of food protein by the body after digestion and absorption. The higher the utilization rate of protein by the body, that is, the higher the nutritional value of protein, with the highest value of 100). The biological value of eggs is 94, while that of pork is 74. That is to say, compared with other livestock meat, eggs are more easily used by human body. If you don't cook eggs by frying or frying in oil, 1-2 eggs a day will not bring much burden to the digestive system of patients with fever and cold. In addition, eggs contain a variety of vitamins, rich in a variety of B vitamins, and vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin A.

matters needing attention

In clinical practice, children with hand foot mouth disease and gastrointestinal infection with fever generally do not give high protein food such as eggs. Although there is no direct evidence, it may be based on reducing the burden of digestive tract to maintain digestive function. Allergic diseases such as Henoch Schonlein purpura nephritis also prohibit eggs in the onset period, in order to avoid allergy or aggravate allergic symptoms. And the egg allergy regardless of whether fever and eggs and other eggs say goodbye.