Drink coconut water after vaccination against Covid-19
On the evening of April 17, the Ministry of Health informed that more than 12,400 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were administered to children aged 5-11 in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Quang Ninh.
Ths.BSCKII Ngo Thi Hieu Minh, Head of Integrated Planning Department, Duc Giang General Hospital, said that children with a clear history of allergies during the first Covid-19 vaccine vaccination will not receive the next vaccination. The cases of delaying injection are children with acute infection, in a course of high-dose corticosteroids or patients with advanced chronic disease…
Children with common allergies such as allergic rhinitis, seasonal allergies, etc. can be vaccinated against Covid-19. Children with a history of severe allergies, anaphylaxis with any allergen (drugs, food, etc.) should be hospitalized for monitoring. Before being vaccinated, children can be tested to see if they have a reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine.
It is common to experience symptoms such as fever, fatigue, pain or nausea after the injection. Therefore, the diet after vaccination is also an issue that parents should pay attention to.
According to Ths.BS Hieu Minh, before and after the injection, children should have a full and varied nutritional diet, without any food restriction. Children eat a lot of fruit, drink more water. Families do not allow children to eat strange foods, raw salads … which can cause nausea and poisoning – can be confused with reactions due to vaccination. After injection, like adults, children abstain from stimulants alcohol, beer, coffee…
Regarding the question of whether children should drink coconut water after vaccination, Ths.BS Minh said that coconut water has a high nutritional content including water, sugar, potassium, calcium, phosphorus… can be lost by secretion through sweat glands.
In particular, drinking coconut water after vaccination also helps to reduce fatigue and add many vitamins to the body. Experts say that, in coconut water, it is cold, so if you drink it in the evening, it will make your body cold and full. Coconut water in traditional medicine is classified as yin, cold, specialized in cooling, cooling … if people with low blood pressure, colds, rheumatism should not use, people with diabetes drink too much, leading to increased potassium in the blood. .
Therefore, after vaccination, you can give your child moderate coconut water, in the morning, eat a variety of foods to fully supplement and balance all vitamins, drink lots of water to help the body. recover quickly.
In addition, before going to the injection, parents need to prepare psychologically for the child. After the injection, the guardian needs to stay with the child at the injection site for at least 30 minutes to monitor post-injection anaphylaxis.
After 30 minutes, if the child has no symptoms related to anaphylaxis, they will be sent home. In case, children show signs of anaphylactic shock within 30 minutes after the injection, they will be kept in medical facilities. When the baby comes home, he often has a fever, fatigue, swelling and pain at the injection site. If the child has a high fever of over 38.5 degrees, parents give the child a fever reducer. For children with signs of difficulty breathing, lethargy, high fever that does not go down, does not respond to fever-reducing drugs, etc., parents need to transfer the child to a medical facility. “Children sometimes can’t tell the signs, so parents need to closely monitor their child’s progress for the first 2 days after the injection,” shared Dr. BS Hieu Minh.
Ngoc Trang
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