From breast milk in the newborn stage, to formula milk after that, to a variety of special milks that are drunk daily after growing up, "milk" has become an indispensable nutritional product in children's daily lives. It is precisely because of this that many merchants have seized business opportunities and launched a wide range of special milk, including milk, goat milk, camel milk, and even donkey milk.
With the launch of these special milk, a variety of "gossip" seems to have become more, each business is pushing their own special milk, and may also "step" on other special milk, resulting in many mothers do not know which statements are true.
Regarding special milk, there are these misunderstandings to be seen
Some people say that "if the child drinks too much milk, then it is easy to catch fire", but in fact, this statement is wrong. Because from a nutritional point of view, most of the milk components are proteins, minerals, fats, etc., and will not cause children to catch fire. Even from the perspective of internal heat in Chinese medicine, milk is also a flat food, so there is no such thing as fire, and parents do not have to listen to this statement.
After the previous friend's child drank milk every day, his throat was dumb, and the doctor checked at the time that it was on fire. In addition, my friend had just heard that the child was easy to get on fire when drinking milk, so he threw the pot to the milk and stopped letting the child drink milk. However, after a period of time, the child still repeatedly caught fire, and finally found that it was the child who often stole biscuits, which led to the fire, and had nothing to do with milk.
There are also some people who say that "milk is easy to cause allergies, not easy to digest, so to drink goat milk, because goat milk is easy to digest", the first thing to be clear is not that milk is easy to cause allergies, but some people are intolerant to lactose, resulting in easy diarrhea when drinking milk. In view of this situation, the best solution is to drink milk at noon or in the evening, and it is not recommended to drink it in the morning. If you really want to drink milk in the morning, it is best to eat it after heating, so that it is not easy to become intolerant.
As for the statement that goat milk is easier to digest, in fact, it is also very one-sided, because in formula milk, whether it is milk or goat milk, in the process of production, after several process procedures, it will eventually be adjusted to the small molecule state closest to breast milk, and there is no such thing as which is easier to digest and absorb, and the two cannot reflect the advantages compared.
In addition, there are some mothers who simply replace infant formula with donkey milk or donkey milk after listening to "camel milk and donkey milk are more nutritious". This practice is very undesirable, because donkey milk is not necessarily suitable for the stomach of infants and young children, and it may not affect some children to drink it, but other children may cause indigestion or allergies when they drink it.
A relative heard before that camel milk is more nutritious for children, specially bought fresh camel milk back, and the price is not cheap, but the child has indigestion the first time he eats it, resulting in a state of accumulation of food for two or three days.
You know, animal milk such as camel milk and donkey milk have less protein and calcium content than milk, and the fat content will be less. More importantly, some infants and young children also need limited minerals and other trace elements, so it is not appropriate to replace this type of animal milk with infant formula. If it is given to children over 3 years old, it can be used as one of the sources of nutrition.
It is enough to see that in fact, regarding the choice of special milk for children, it is especially important to note that if it is for babies under 3 years old to drink, then try not to choose special milk, and use ordinary formula milk. However, if it is an older child, if you want to choose a special milk with different tastes, you can give the child a new one for a period of time, and there will not be much difference between the nutritional components.
Here we should also remind parents that it is not recommended to use "milk" as the only source of nutrition for their children, and some parents may feel that as long as their children drink milk, then they don't have to worry, and it doesn't matter if they eat or not. In fact, this idea is wrong, because milk can only provide a part of the nutrients for children, and other trace elements are lacking, which must be supplemented by vegetables, fruits or other fresh fish, meat and eggs.
Milk can only be used as one of the supplementary nutrients, it is better to drink between meals, otherwise drinking milk after meals may also cause indigestion and easily affect the absorption of nutrients. Drinking milk before meals is easy to appear full, and children are reluctant to eat, so it is best to let children drink milk between meals as a small snack.
As for some flavored milk on the market, in fact, there is no need to drink for children, because most of them are added with a lot of sugar, which is essentially a drink, and can not provide much nutrition, and children eat too much and are prone to obesity and caries. In the face of a wide variety of "milk" on the market, mothers must understand clearly in order to better make choices for their children.