I think we all are taking care of our community, so that we are not affected by the infectious Covid-19 but in this blog is dedicated to people who are recovering from Covid-19. so I've come across this very informative article from a UK website which talks about the nutrition support for the covid-19 recovery well Coved-19 is an infectious disease, and for the recovery a lot of time people are still experiencing malnutrition loss of weight tiredness fatigue fever and often there is a loss of taste and smell after recovery. When you have been discharged from the hospital I am sure the health care professionals must have given you a diet chart and also the do's and don'ts for the quick recovery post-Covid-19 but there are a few things that you definitely need to observe during your recovery the first thing is that you have to see that there is no weight loss.
That is happening you have to keep on monitoring your weight you also see that, you know there are no infections or deficiencies which you might be having so in order to that you need to see that. You don't have any malnutrition these are the two things that you definitely keep needing to keep a watch on during the recovery post Cove-19 importance of protein during recovery protein helps us to build up the cells it also helps us to build up immunity and helps us to fight the infection and that is, why the protein content of the diet has to be very very good after or after for the recovery of covid-19.
what are the protein sources they will be from the dolls and the legumes that you consume, it will be from the nuts and the oil seeds a milk and milk products it will also be from the non-vegetarian sources like egg chicken fish meat and poultry. So you have to see to it that you are having at least one serving of protein for your breakfast for your lunch for your snacks and your dinner definitely that is going to make a difference again taking protein with supplements, would be a good choice especially.
When you're trying to from certain kind of infectious illness that will help you to speed up the recovery. The second most important thing is the importance of consuming color fruits and vegetables in your diet. I think I have stressed enough of that about it earlier also but having five servings of fruit and vegetables in the day either in the form of raw fruits, raw salads or cooked sub's will definitely help you to heal better because they contain vitamins they contain minerals, and they also contain certain phytonutrients, which will help you to recover vector as they contain antioxidants the third most important thing because of malnutrition you also need to focus upon your carbohydrates. So that as you know your eyes its apathy the oats which you consume poha in the morning see that you are eating a good amount of carbs along with the protein in the diet and that will. So if you eat carbs that are going to give you energy and when you're going to eat protein with the cups that is going to be a complete meal in itself and helps in recovery oil or fat is also very very important and key is especially important in the healing process and to build up the immunity so see to it that you're consuming at least one teaspoon of ghee definitely in the day in your diet to heal to take care of the malnutrition and to have a better recovery Covid-19 also causes shortness of breath and I think it continues even. When you are recovering if you're experiencing certain shortness of breath during those times.
See that your meals have small and frequent rather than having big meals because then it becomes very very difficult to consume such huge meals this is the tip. Which you can follow if you have difficulty in breathing the infectious disease of Covid-19 also causes a good dry mouth in a lot of cases especially because of the use of nebulizers because of the use of oxygen masks at such times it becomes very very important that you start healing the dry mouth how can you do that it's very simple.
Start consuming more fluids in the diet in the form of probably plain water, or whenever you're comes getting a chance you can consume buttermilk in the diet you can consume stews and soups in the diet, you can have coconut water or you can have fruit juices, or you can have juicy fruits you know like the ones like watermelon or even the oranges musk melon. Which are having a higher water content in it that will take care of your dry mouth no much trick. That you can follow to take care of your dry mouth is that you chew on some sugar-free gum. So that your mouth or you know the saliva keeps on circulating in the mouth and that is why the mouth remains moist for a longer period of time the most important, or you know the interesting part of the article which. I really liked and I'm just going to read it out to you are this is more of foods that you enjoy other times of the day. When you feel like most eating it so you don't have to wait you know like this is your breakfast time is your lunchtime in between if you really feel hungry at those times choose that time and you can eat food at that point in time.
It's smaller snacks and has to nourish drinks as I just told you can have smoothies you can have soup you can have fruit juices make shake and even hot chocolate in between that lots of the purpose of your dry mouth. It will also take care of your nausea as well avoid drinking before or during the meals, as the liquid can really fill you up now the most important thing for the recovery of Covid-19 is to take care of the malnutrition in that case you have to eat more small and frequent meals which are energy dense so that the recovery is better too many fluids, before just before an hour you know immediately after your meals are going to fill up your stomach and then you will not be able to eat more high-calorie food.
Which is really required for the healing add ingredients such as cheese butter olive oil cream cheese milk powder ground almonds to your food such as soups stews curries scrambled eggs, vegetables and potatoes of course there are a lot of people who are affected with Coved-19 and have comorbidities in such cases you need to be mindful in consuming sugars usually in such cases, you can totally avoid high sugar foods that are the you know the fruit juices which are sweetened with sugar or the ones which are purchased from outside but you can move on to eating more of holes.
Foods like protein and a carb rich meal and probably sugars which are coming in the natural form either in the form of fruits or you know probably coming from dates or coming from try figs and honey syrup or jams to your porridge milk puddings on bread toast or in the tea cakes this is specially meant, you know if you're not having any comorbidities that is very very important to fortify usual milk with two to four tablespoons of skim milk powder into one pint of milk, this is I think an excellent tip because skim milk powder is going to give you the protein it is going to take care of one serving of protein more than.
What is already present in your milk and it is going to really speed up your healing process if you usually have low-fat low sugar diet foods, and drinks switch to non-diet ones like whole milk and have some treats like a piece of cake chocolate and a fistful of nuts in between.
Yes, definitely nuts are going to help you to give you calories they are going to have omega-3 fatty acids that is good fats, and they are also going to have protein so they are a must during the recovery but as I mentioned if you are having comorbidities you really need not get into the sugar content of it.
Powder nutritional supplements which are available in the supermarket like you know the powdered protein powders. Which are available or even if you want you can make natural protein powders at home using almonds walnuts probably flax seeds pumpkin seeds skim milk powder you mix all of it together prepare it in a picture and make it always available to you and have it every day and that will help in your recovery I will be definitely linking this article.