Recently, my cousin who was far away from home chatted with me, and my nephew, who was more than 1 year old, was checked for malnutrition and died of grief. It turned out that the nephew began to add complementary foods in six months, because the old man felt that the rice noodles he bought were not safe with additives, so it was better to boil rice soup for the baby to drink, nutrition and safety. The old man also thinks that in the past, children grew up eating rice paste, and they didn't see what was wrong...
I can only comfort my cousin, the past has been unable to change, the doctor's words and examination results told the old man, in the future regeneration of the second child can not be recruited. The most important thing now is to follow the doctor's advice and give your nephew a nutrition, and it is not too late to start.
In the past, because of the shortage of materials, I had no choice but to give the baby rice paste. In fact, rice soup has no nutrition at all, the main ingredient in rice soup is starch, and the nutrition is in the rice grain, and the nutritional value of rice soup is very low.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" recommends that parents first add iron-rich high-energy foods to their babies as the first choice, because after 6 months, the body's demand for iron will increase, and the fortified iron rice powder on the market is the best choice.
Therefore, although homemade rice noodles are relatively safe, they have no nutrition, which cannot meet the needs of the baby's growth and development, and will hurt the baby invisibly. Parents should first add iron-fortified rice noodles, meat puree, etc. to the baby, and then gradually introduce other different kinds of food on this basis to meet the baby's growth needs.
Li Ning said in the book "Nutrition Experts of Union Hospital: This Complementary Food Baby Loves to Eat" that baby rice noodles are not equal to homemade rice noodles, because baby rice noodles, like formula milk, are a formula food, which adds calcium, iron, zinc, vitamins and other nutrients, which cannot be replaced by homemade rice porridge, especially in the early days of adding complementary foods.
People take food as the day, the baby's supplementary food is the top priority of parents, in addition to the misunderstanding of homemade rice noodles, there are some old concepts we need to be cautious, in order to prevent stepping on the pit and pit baby, resulting in malnutrition of children. So, what are the feeding misunderstandings of pit babies?
No salt, no strength
The older generation lived in the era, because of the shortage of materials and less salt, coupled with the high intensity of physical labor, sodium loss is more, resulting in sodium deficiency caused by large neck disease or fatigue and fatigue. In their concept, eating more salt can be powerful, and children can grow taller, which is a misconception caused by the brand of the times.
Nowadays, living conditions are good, the ingredients are abundant, and mothers' breast milk or baby milk powder have sodium elements to give them what they need for growth and development, without adding additional salt to complementary foods.
The 2016 Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommend that your baby's complementary foods be maintained in natural food flavors and avoid adding any spices such as salt and sugar.
The baby's kidneys and body are not mature, and eating salt too early will increase the burden on their kidneys, affect their heart organs, etc., which is not conducive to the health of the baby.
Therefore, before the baby is 1 year old, there is no need to add extra salt to their complementary foods. After the age of 1, their sodium demand reaches about 700 mg per day (about 2 grams if converted into edible salt), and they can add a little salt in moderation, but not too much.
Drink plenty of juice to replenish water and vitamins
Many parents think that making fruit puree is too troublesome, like to buy concentrated juice in the supermarket for the baby to drink, feel convenient and convenient, and can also add vitamins to the baby.
In fact, for babies who have just added complementary foods, the sugar content of concentrated juice is too high for them to drink. Because a glass of juice contains almost 26g of sugar, the American Heart Association recommends that the daily sugar intake of the second child should be 25g.
After the fruit is squeezed into juice, it has destroyed the dietary fiber inside and cannot replace the nutritional value of the fruit.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in the guidelines that babies under 1 year old should not drink juice, babies aged 1-3 should drink no more than half a cup of juice per day, babies aged 4-6 should drink no more than 3/4 cup of juice per day, and children over 7 years old should drink 1 cup of juice per day.
Therefore, for babies over 6 months, you can add fruit puree and other complementary foods, but try not to give them juice or concentrated juice, so as not to have too high sugar content, resulting in obesity or tooth decay problems.
Rice flour is too thin or too thick, and feed the baby with a bottle
Some parents feel that it is too troublesome to feed complementary foods with a spoon, so they dilute the rice noodles and feed the baby with a bottle, which is so worry-free. Some parents are also afraid that the baby's nutrition cannot keep up, so they are very thick and hope that the baby will eat more.
In fact, adding complementary rice noodles to the baby after six months is not to make them full, but to supplement them with some nutrients such as iron, zinc, etc., as well as exercise their chewing ability and taste. Because the iron in breast milk or milk powder can no longer meet the needs of the baby's growth and development.
Therefore, in the early stage of adding complementary foods, we should not make rice noodles too thin or too thick when we prepare rice noodles for babies, but according to the formula on the package book. Too thin will not be enough nutrition, too thick will increase the baby's gastrointestinal burden. The most perfect state is that after tilting the food bowl, the rice paste can flow slowly.
After seven or eight months of the baby, the rice flour paste can gradually thicken, from mud to granular or small soft and fast transition, exercise the baby's chewing ability, stimulate their taste development.
Write at the end
Baby's stomach, kidneys, liver, etc. are very fragile, to be further developed, we must be cautious when we add complementary food to them, do not take complementary food as the baby's staple food, think that giving them complementary food to thicken some, you can ensure their nutritional needs, do not need to feed.
This is a big mistake, before the baby is 1 year old, milk is their source of nutrition, complementary food is complementary food, is auxiliary, milk is the lord, do not make a fuss, hurt the child invisibly.
Although homemade rice noodles are safe, they cannot replace commercially available high-speed rail rice noodles; babies within 1 year old are best not to eat salt to prevent increasing their gastrointestinal burden; babies within 1 year old are best not to drink juice or concentrated juice, because nutrients are destroyed; it is best to follow the instructions for supplementary foods added to the baby, not too thin and not too thick.
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