Now people have a high standard of living, unlike in the past, there is nothing to eat, many people are malnourished, and many children now have overnutrition.
Parents blindly overfeed, so that the nutritional supply exceeds the child's own needs, it will lead to excess nutrition, followed by indigestion, spleen and stomach damage, weight growth and other phenomena.
Many people think that children are very fat, but in fact, too fat is not good, normal weight, healthy body is the most important, parents must learn to feed scientifically, to avoid causing harm to the child's body.
What are the symptoms of overfeeding?
When the baby appears in the following four signals, parents must be vigilant, it is likely that the baby has been overfeed by you!
1. Irregular stool and abnormal odor
Big is an important feature for parents to observe whether the baby is healthy, if the baby's stool is regular and the color is normal, it means that the child has a good stomach and good health.
And once the baby has irregular stool, shapeless, abnormal smell and other phenomena, indicating that the baby's body has a problem, usually, when the baby is overfeed, there will be a heavy smell of stool and green and other phenomena, sometimes a closer look can also find a lot of small bubbles in the stool, and some children will pull the milk flap, which indicates that the baby is overfeed.
2. The number of changes in diapers has become less and lighter
At different stages of your baby's growth, the frequency of changing diapers is not the same, usually the older the baby, the fewer times they change. For newborns, every time the mother changes the diaper, she can find it very light, and as the child grows older, the diaper will become heavier. If your baby's diapers become lighter several times in a row and there is less stool, it means that your baby has indigestion, which means that your baby may be overfeed.
When parents feed their children too much food so that the baby cannot absorb it effectively, it will cause a burden on the baby's stomach and intestines, making the baby constipated and less urine.
3. Frequent spitting up
Some parents see babies spitting up frequently, and they will worry that if the baby throws up and does not eat, he will be malnourished, in fact, this worry is completely superfluous. Not to mention that now the child's living material conditions have improved, the child's usual nutritional supply is already sufficient, and even if the hungry child eats one or two meals, there will be nothing.
When the baby is overfeed, there is a lot of food in the stomach that cannot be absorbed and digested, then the body's instinct will prompt the baby to spit out, in fact, this is also a self-protection mechanism of the body. Parents can feed some water appropriately after the child spits up milk, and reduce the number and amount of feeding, so as to benefit the baby's gastrointestinal health.
4. The abdomen is often flatulent and bulging to the touch
In fact, after the baby is overfeed, many symptoms are the same, such as my baby if there is a frequent spitting up phenomenon, at this time you go to touch his stomach, you can find bulging, feel that there is gas inside, there will also be thinning, constipation, which is caused by overfeeding.
If the mother finds that the child's appetite is not good, and when she touches the child's stomach, there is a lot of flatulence, then the child will cry due to flatulence, and the mother can solve the problem by properly touching and reducing the amount and frequency of the diet.
4 major hazards of overfeeding
The baby's various organs are in a naïve stage, and their ability to move is very limited, such as the activity of digestive enzymes secreted by the organs of the digestive system is relatively low and the amount is relatively small. Under such physiological conditions, there are adverse consequences for the baby:
1. Overfeeding can easily lead to malabsorption
Overfeeding can increase the workload of the digestive organs and cause digestive malabsorption. Parents must have a plan to supply food so that the baby can always maintain a normal appetite.
2. Overfeeding is prone to brain fatigue
In order to digest too much food, the digestive tract must expand, limited blood and oxygen are transferred from the head to the digestive tract, and brain cells will be temporarily ischemic, so the more they eat, the more blood the gastrointestinal tract needs, the less blood is supplied to the brain, and the greater the harm to the brain.
3. Overfeeding will also promote premature brain failure in babies
Studies have found that progeria substances will increase tens of thousands of times due to overweight after meals, which is prone to obesity and even affects the development of the brain, and intelligence is low.
4. Overfeeding can lead to obesity
Excessive protein intake in infancy stimulates the secretion of insulin-like growth factors, stimulates protein synthesis and cell proliferation, and increases muscle and fat cells.
Some scholars have proposed the theory of hypothalamic and endocrine regulation, that is, overfeeding increases the concentration of leptin in the baby's serum, resulting in a decrease in the sensitivity of hypothalamic leptin receptors to leptin. Obesity is easy to occur when there is a positive energy balance environment in the body, such as adolescence and pregnancy.
Finally, we would like to remind new parents
When the child has a slower swallowing speed, sluggishness, refusal to eat and other phenomena, must stop feeding, indicating that the child has eaten enough, continue to feed will only increase the burden on the baby's gastrointestinal tract, and is not conducive to the healthy growth of the child.
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