The word sore throat (tonsillitis) is translated from Latin "squeeze, squeeze". The patient feels not only intense squeezing of the throat, but also severe pain when swallowing. It is not surprising that during illness, people refuse to eat or take in minimal quantities. Pain, swelling, suppuration on the tonsils significantly complicate food intake, make the mucous membrane of the throat hypersensitive to various temperature regimes, change the taste of foods and the patient's eating habits. It may seem surprising, but some dishes can aggravate the course of the disease. To prevent this from happening, you need to know what diet is shown for angina.
How to eat right with tonsillitis
Lack of appetite is one of the many symptoms of sore throat, especially purulent. Therefore, you cannot force the patient to eat. The body spends a lot of energy on digesting food, and during an illness a person is already weakened. Especially if a pronounced intoxication is noted in the clinical picture, characterized, among other things, by nausea and vomiting. With such symptoms, you don't really want to eat, and refusal to eat is a normal reaction of the body.
During the period of illness, the body spends the main forces on fighting infection. Therefore, food during this period needs light, quickly digestible. Nutrition for angina should be aimed at helping the body in the fight against pathology.
Nutrition rules for adults with angina:
- The daily amount of calories should be reduced. The daily intake of proteins is 70 grams, fats - 60 grams, carbohydrates - 250-300 grams. Despite the fact that many foods are excluded from the diet, the diet should be varied, rich in trace elements and vitamins.
- You need to eat often 5-6 times a day in small portions.
- The temperature of the dishes is comfortable, you cannot eat too hot or cold food.
- It is advisable to cook the dishes in the oven or steam, wipe, grind, so that the food is soft and easily passes into the esophagus.
- In acute tonsillitis, special attention is paid to drinking plenty of fluids. The liquid helps to remove toxins from the body and fight infection, and helps to lower the temperature.
What can you eat
At the initial stage of the disease, dietary table No. 13 is recommended. It is based on: reducing the total number of calories, limiting fats, proteins, carbohydrates, increasing fruits and vegetables.
- among the first courses, it is better to give preference to meat, fish, vegetable broths. In the initial stage, when pain and swelling in the throat is expressed, chicken broth can be drunk;
- meat and fish should be stewed, cooked in the oven or steamed, and eaten in small pieces. You can eat meatballs, chicken zrazy, boiled chicken or rabbit fillets, lean turkey, veal. You need to take sea fish without fat: pollock, cod, pink salmon. Prepare chopped steam cutlets, casserole from fish. You can make an omelet from eggs in water, you can not fry eggs in oil;
- porridge can be cooked in milk or water, the main thing is that they are semi-liquid. Give preference to buckwheat, corn and wheat groats, oatmeal, millet;
- bread with tonsillitis you need to eat white stale, but not stale. Take the smallest pasta, season with butter without irritating sauces;
- among dairy products, fermented baked milk, kefir, sour cream, and cottage cheese are best absorbed.
With acute tonsillitis, you need to eat low-fat fermented milk products.
fruits and vegetables can be eaten in unlimited quantities. In the acute period of the illness (the first three days), vegetables are processed, they can be baked, boiled, mashed and steamed vegetable cutlets. For angina, zucchini, broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots are useful. Garlic and onions have antibacterial and disinfectant properties, and these vegetables are certainly beneficial for sore throats. But the main thing is how to eat garlic and onions.
fruits and vegetables can be eaten in unlimited quantities. In the acute period of the illness (the first three days), vegetables are processed, they can be baked, boiled, mashed and steamed vegetable cutlets. For angina, zucchini, broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots are useful. Garlic and onions have antibacterial and disinfectant properties, and these vegetables are certainly beneficial for sore throats. But the main thing is how to eat garlic and onions.Do not eat fresh onions and garlic for sore throat. Vegetables must be chopped and cooked. It is not recommended to add them fresh to ready-made meals. Garlic should be consumed in minimal amounts.
For the treatment of colds in folk medicine, garlic milk is used. Insist three medium cloves of garlic in a glass of hot milk. Strain and drink warm in small sips.
It is known that acute tonsillitis can occur not due to infection, but due to trauma to the throat, for example, phlegmonous tonsillitis (intratonsillar abscess). Laryngeal sore throat develops, including from a burn of the throat, so food should not be hot.
Fresh vegetables and fruits with peels can hurt your throat. Be sure to peel off and make mashed potatoes or grate vegetables and fruits.
- it is better to give preference for infectious diseases of the throat to semisweet fruits. Sour fruits will irritate the mucous membrane of the pharynx, causing the patient to cough. It is better to grind them, like vegetables, on a grater, in a blender, squeeze juice, make mashed potatoes, jellies, mousses, jelly, compotes, bake in the oven.
- Of all the fruits, the most useful are pomegranates, apples, sweet soft pears, and peaches. Pomegranate can be used as a throat rinse. Dissolve freshly squeezed pomegranate juice in half with warm boiled water. Gargle with a throat 3-4 times a day. Pomegranate has antipyretic properties, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic properties. For drinking, the juice of other fruits is best diluted with water 1: 1;
- sweet: jam, jelly, honey, jam, marmalade;
- with angina, certain foods can strengthen the immune system. These are vegetables, berries, fruits rich in trace elements and vitamins: bananas and melon (vitamins A, C, K, B3, potassium), watermelon (A, B6), parsley (vitamin C, E), apples (A, C, iron ), pomegranate (A, group B, C, PP, E), black currant, grated with sugar (vitamin C). By the way, black currant is one of the few berries that retains vitamins and minerals during heat treatment.
Sample menu for angina:
breakfast: buckwheat porridge, tea with lemon juice;
second breakfast: scrambled eggs, pumpkin and apple baked in the oven;
lunch: chicken broth, a piece of chicken fillet, crushed potatoes with meatballs, pomegranate. For those who do not like this fruit, you can replace it with berry jelly.
Pomegranate is contraindicated for gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, hemorrhoids, anal fissures!
Pomegranate should not be eaten whole at a time, a quarter is enough.
afternoon snack: pear and apple puree;
dinner: pasta, fish casserole, dried fruit compote or rosehip broth;
before bedtime: cottage cheese, a glass of fermented baked milk.
What you can't eat
What foods are not recommended for angina:
- sweet: chocolate, sucking and chocolates, too sweet drink, gum, ice cream, fatty cake, cakes, pastries. Sweet things settle on the mucous membrane of the throat, and such an environment is the best for the reproduction of pathogenic microbes. If you really want to eat something sweet, then let it be dark chocolate and then a small piece;
- you cannot eat foods with a pronounced taste: fried, salty, sour, spicy. Salty foods can lead to dehydration and slow down the elimination of toxins. Sour irritates the pharyngeal mucosa, injuring it and causing a cough reflex. Fried promotes swelling of the mucous membranes. Acute also has an irritating effect. For example, garlic can also burn the throat, so in no case should you eat garlic raw and in large quantities;
- drinks: sour juices, carbonated drinks, hot drinks, cranberry juice, coffee, black tea, alcohol, hot chocolate. In case of throat diseases, the drink should be alkaline or neutral;
- coarse food: crackers, croutons, hard bread, sandwiches, tough meat, bagels, coarse cereals, seeds, chips.The tonsils and mucous membranes are already swollen and painful with tonsillitis, and hard food scratches the throat, leaving little wounds;
- you need to exclude energy-consuming products. First of all, these are fatty pork, lamb, beef, fresh milk, heavy cream, strong broths, fresh rolls, legumes, fresh cabbage, radishes, mushrooms, sweets, canned and smoked food.
In case of acute tonsillitis, it is impossible to give the patient products that have not previously been eaten by him. Any new product can cause a severe allergic reaction.
With purulent sore throat, it is strictly forbidden to eat: citrus fruits, chocolate, condensed milk, fresh coarse vegetables and fruits, garlic, pickled, pickled, foods, canned food, smoked meats, peppers, hot spices, fatty dairy and meat products.
It is not recommended to eat immediately after medical procedures. This greatly reduces the effectiveness of the treatment.
