People with chickenpox should eat the following foods to recover quickly.

What is chickenpox?

Chickenpox is caused by the Varicella Zoster virus. The disease usually appears in late winter and early spring, lasting into summer. Chickenpox is very contagious in the community.

Sharing with Health & Life Newspaper, nurse CKI Doan Thi Thu Hang, Department of Dermatology-Allergy-Immunology, Hospital 19-8 said that when detecting signs of chickenpox, patients need to see a specialist for proper treatment instructions.

Regarding diet, you should eat soft, liquid, easily absorbed, nutritious foods; Supplement vitamins and minerals; Avoid sour, spicy, salty, crunchy foods... which can irritate the oral mucosa because chickenpox blisters can grow in the mouth and throat.

People with chickenpox should avoid hot spices.

Foods to eat

People with chickenpox should eat light, nutritious foods in liquid or semi-liquid form, easy to digest, such as green bean porridge, water chestnut-coix porridge, water chestnut-young bamboo leaf porridge, brown rice porridge, honeysuckle porridge, wheat porridge, green bean vermicelli porridge, asparagus, eggs, bananas, red beans, green beans, black beans, potatoes, carrots, white radish, squash, Malabar spinach, purslane, pennywort, bitter melon, amaranth, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, lettuce, and mugwort.

Use foods rich in vitamin C such as: lemon, orange, avocado, strawberry, kiwi, pear, watermelon, cucumber, tomato... Vitamin C helps increase resistance, fight infection, speed up collagen production, and prevent pitted scars.

After healing, the wounds begin to dry and new skin forms, so use fresh turmeric right away to treat indented scars after chickenpox.

People with chickenpox should eat light, nutritious foods in liquid or semi-liquid form that are easy to digest.

How to use: Wash the turmeric root, gently scrape off the outer skin to release the juice from the inside. Apply this juice evenly around the scar area once a day before going to bed, leave it overnight and wash it off the next morning, then continue to apply another layer.

Three bean and licorice water

Green beans, black beans, red beans, each 100g, licorice 2g. Cook with 1 liter of water, reduce to 500ml, divide into 2-3 doses for children to drink during the day.

In addition, people with chickenpox should eat delicious soups made from spinach and pork.

Cooling soup

Green beans, water chestnuts, cogon roots, young bamboo shoots, carrots, each 20 - 30g. Cook with 1 liter of water, reduce to 650ml, divide into 2 doses for children to drink during the day (if children have asthma or cough, do not use water chestnuts and carrots).

This soup has a moistening and cooling effect, very useful for people with chickenpox, high fever, and restlessness.

Honeysuckle water

10g honeysuckle, 20ml sugarcane juice. Cook with 500ml water, boil for about 10 minutes. Drink once a day, continuously for 7-10 days, to help clear wind and heat, reduce fever.

Red bean and barley porridge

Coix seed 20g, red bean 30g, Smilax glabra 30g, rice 100g. Wash all, cook with appropriate amount of water into porridge. Divide into 3 meals a day, with a little white sugar or rock sugar.

This porridge has the effect of detoxifying and eliminating dampness, especially suitable for those who have had chickenpox but still have fever, red-yellow urine, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

This porridge has the effect of detoxifying and eliminating dampness, especially suitable for chickenpox that has been cleared up, but still has a fever.

Pork and bean porridge

80g rice, 30g red beans, 30g green beans, 50g minced pork. Cook all with the right amount of water into a soft porridge. Eat when hungry. This porridge is easy to digest, very good for people with chickenpox and mild fever.

Purslane juice

When having chickenpox, you can use 100 - 120g of fresh purslane, wash thoroughly, squeeze out the juice, and drink during the day.

Purslane juice has cooling, anti-inflammatory, acne-preventing effects, very good for people with chickenpox.

Foods to avoid

While sick, you should avoid greasy foods, hot foods, and foods that are too nutritious.

People with chickenpox should avoid eating hot and spicy foods such as: ginger, onions, garlic, leeks, chili, pepper, dill, curry, mustard, coriander, meats such as goat, dog, chicken, duck, goose, eel, seafood (shrimp, crab, clams, snails, etc.), lychee, longan, plum, ripe mango, jackfruit, persimmon, cherry, spinach, fatty foods such as chestnuts, roasted peanuts, roasted melon seeds, fried beans, donuts, fried foods, animal fats, etc.

The most taboo is cinnamon, because cinnamon has a very hot, pure yang nature, and has the effect of warming and supporting fire. Too much dryness will damage yin, which is very dangerous for chickenpox patients.

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