[Sca-cooks] Re: Invalid food

[Christiane]

>Anyone have any suggestions?  My six year old grandson is in the hospital 
>with pneumonia, and isn't eating.  They've got him on IV fluids, but he 
>only weighed 41 lbs when he went in yesterday, and he's dropped another 
>pound and a half overnight.  Any suggestions on what might tempt him to 
>eat?  We've offered ice cream and all his favorite foods.  He said he'd 
>eat some chicken nuggets, so I went ten miles to the nearest Mickey D's, 
>and he ate half of one.  He loves root beer, but he won't even taste 
>one.  I'm about at the end of my wits.


Poor kidlet! Some of the antibiotics he's on may have affected his sense of taste and upset his stomach.

If there is no ban on dairy products, rice pudding or chocolate pudding could help. 

A thick chicken soup, with pureed meats and vegetables and barley?

Peanut butter on crackers and maybe mashed bananas?

Nutella? (hazelnut and chocolate peanut-butter like spread); this can be smeared on pieces of fruit, or served in a sandwich like peanut butter and banana.

Alphabet soup?

Ice pops? Maybe you can make your own of real fruit juice ... Make them up in trays like ice cubes.

Plain pasta with chicken broth?

A big thing for me to eat when I was sick with strep throat repeatedly as a kid was consomme, which I'd soak saltines in.

Please let us know how he is doing.

Gianotta