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Liang Jing is a child nutritionist who often answers questions about children's nutrition to mothers, and she found that the first time when children's nutrition problems broke out was when the child was about one year old.
That is, when children add complementary foods, parents add complementary foods improperly, which can easily lead to various problems in children.
For example, the complementary foods added to the child are not fresh enough, resulting in diarrhea in the child.
Add granular food to your child prematurely, causing your child to eat and pull something.
Give the child to eat homemade rice noodles, think it is safer and more nutritious, the result of the child is very fond of eating, but when I went to check, I found that the child had iron deficiency anemia.
When adults eat, they see that children also want to eat, so they casually give children to eat, and as a result, the children have rashes on the skin and allergic reactions occur.
Or listen to others say that rice cereal nutrition has been given to children to eat, children are one year old and still eat rice cereal every day, resulting in children chewing ability did not get timely exercise.
The child is three years old and still chases after him every day.
The problem of adding these complementary foods is easy for many parents to make, that is, because parents do not understand the key elements of good complementary foods.
Want children to eat complementary food delicious, gastrointestinal good, grow taller and smarter, keep in mind the "seven elements" of complementary food
Element 1: Freshness
The child's gastrointestinal tract itself is more sensitive, before giving the child to drink milk powder, we recommend that a brand of milk powder insist on giving the child to eat, do not replace it at will.
If you really want to change the milk powder, there must be a milk transfer process, that is because the child's intestines are particularly sensitive.
And we give children to eat complementary food, we must buy fresh raw materials, if the raw materials are not fresh, children eat easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract caused by diarrhea.
Or not too fresh complementary food nutrition has been lost, to the child to eat, only can be full stomach, but can not supplement nutrition, long-term easy to lead to malnutrition of children.
Some foods that are not very fresh will add a lot of additives or salt in order to preserve, which is not conducive to the growth and development of children.
Element two: the right age for the child
The child has just added complementary food at 6 months, and the recommendation is to add high-speed rail rice noodles to the child.
Why not recommend giving your child food or meat? That's because the child's teeth have just grown, the chewing ability is very weak, and the gastrointestinal digestion ability is also limited, so it is necessary to give the child a semi-liquid complementary food.
And when you first start to brew rice paste, you should dilute it, so that the child has a process of adaptation.
But when the child is 10 months old, we do not recommend giving the child rice paste, but recommend giving the child a slightly granular food, so that the child learns to chew, which is more conducive to the development of the child's teeth and helps the child to exercise the masticatory muscles.
Element three: high-speed rail
One of the important reasons why children add complementary foods is that the iron brought by children from their mothers has been exhausted, so it is necessary to supplement iron for children through complementary foods as soon as possible.
The first food supplement recommended for children to add is high-speed rail rice noodles purchased commercially, rather than homemade rice noodles made at home.
It is even suggested that parents can buy meat puree and liver mud for their children, these supplementary foods with high iron content for children to eat, and supplement iron for children as soon as possible, which is more conducive to the development of children's brains and can enhance children's immunity.
Element 4: Hypoallergenicity
It is not recommended to give children mango, pineapple, shrimp, crab, seafood and other foods that are prone to allergies before the age of one, and even children are not recommended to add protein before the age of one.
That's because these foods are a kind of food that is easy for children to be allergic, it is a highly sensitive food, in case the child is allergic, a slight rash, more serious is laryngeal edema, and even cause breathing difficulties, there is a risk of suffocation.
Element 5: Conducive chewing ability exercise
For example, when a child first adds complementary food to eat rice paste, but when the child is about 7 months old, he can add some thin rice, and when the child is 9 months old, he can add some granular food to exercise the child's chewing ability.
It is recommended that when mothers add complementary foods to their children, they can buy a box of chewing gum, and when feeding complementary foods to children, adults chew gum with their mouths, so that children know that they need to chew when eating complementary foods.
The exercise of chewing ability is conducive to the development of children's teeth, and it is more conducive to the exercise of children's language ability, so that children have good teeth and speak clearly, which is also a purpose of adding complementary foods.
Element six: Easy to take
British medical institutions recommend that when children add complementary foods, they should start eating independently, and when children just eat independently, they are accustomed to directly grasping food with their hands.
So when the child is seven or eight months old, we can make some finger food for the child, such as a small piece of apple, or a small piece of bread, or even a rice ball or noodles made by ourselves, so that the child can grasp and eat, which helps to exercise the child's fine movements.
Element 7: Nutritional balance
Children's complementary foods should pay attention to nutritional balance, children add rice cereal is a formula of rice paste, which has calcium, iron and zinc and other nutrients.
But when the child begins to eat dishes, it is necessary to pay attention to the vegetables and fruits to eat, different meats are eaten in rotation, chicken, duck, goose, pork, mutton, beef and all kinds of fish and even animal offal, must be eaten by the child.
Different foods provide different nutrients, try not to let children eat the same food repeatedly, for example, some children especially love to eat pumpkin carrots, if parents give children to eat every day, it is easy to make children become minions.
Do parents remember the "7 elements" of good complementary food?
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