Parent Tip: Friendly foods for Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease
Unlike her last round of Hand, foot and mouth, with this one Baby Girl has multiple lesions in her throat and one on her tongue. Making her not all that enthusiastic about eating solids or taking a bottle. But through trial and error I've found the following foods that work,at least for Baby Girl. I think because they are soft enough, mild, and not acidic or stinging to the open sores in her mouth. And this way I can give her a bit of a variety.
- Yogurt - she's eating this by the containerful. I can't put it in her mouth fast enough. I think because it's cold, and it sort of coats the throat going down, it might feel good.
- Bananas
- Watermelon
- Cantaloupe
- Honeydew
- really well-cooked pasta
- bagels (surprisingly enough. They're chewy; not hard, I guess)
- soft tortilla
Foods that she won't eat(besides the obvious really hard foods like crackers)
- apple sauce
- strawberries
- peaches
- ground beef
- her bottle (she'll take a bit, but because of the sore on her tongue, I think it hurts to suck).
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