Some unscrupulous merchants, in order to obtain more profits, constantly release some "parenting knowledge" to create anxiety for parents, the purpose is to sell their own products.
Especially "calcium supplement products", often sought after by parents, no matter what symptoms the baby has, can be associated with "calcium deficiency", such as pillow baldness, slow growth, night crying, late teething, etc., search for similar questions on the Internet, expert answers seem to be very consistent, that is, calcium deficiency!
Is this really the case? Today, I have to debunk the rumors and avoid more parents being fooled!
Let's first answer a question, does calcium deficiency have an impact on the baby?
Calcium as an element in the human body, is indeed very important, long-term calcium deficiency will definitely affect the child's physical development.
For example, long-term calcium deficiency can cause rickets, low muscle tone, backward motor ability, low immunity, low intellectual development, deformity of bone development, and so on.
However, with the current social standard of living, as long as the baby is fed normally, there will be almost no calcium deficiency, unless the baby is suffering from disease.
Debunking: These 5 cases are not due to calcium deficiency:
1. The baby's height is not up to standard
The baby's height development mainly depends on genetic factors, followed by whether the acquired nutrition can keep up, and the other is the amount of exercise and physical diseases. If the height due to calcium deficiency is not up to standard, it may have been manifested in other places, such as abnormal bone development, which cannot be only manifested in the indicator of height.
2. Occipital baldness
Occipital baldness and calcium deficiency have nothing to do with it, and the baby's hair follicles mature around the age of two, so when they are very young, due to friction, metabolism, and long-term fixed sleeping posture, it will cause a circle of hair on the back of the brain that does not grow. Generally after the baby is six months old, the time spent lying down during the day becomes less, and the hair will slowly return to normal.
3. Cry at night
Night crying is usually because the baby's nervous system is excited, sleep more during the day, can't sleep at night, coupled with the imperfect development of the gastrointestinal tract of the small month-old baby, intestinal colic caused by crying, and calcium deficiency has nothing to do with it.
4. Night sweats
After the baby goes to bed at night, night sweats are easy to appear on the head, mainly because the central nervous system is not well developed, the nerve function of the vegetative person is unstable, and the nerve excitement that controls the sweat glands is caused. Or it is due to too much excitement before going to bed, eating high-calorie foods, not because of calcium deficiency, generally after growing up will improve.
5. Late teething
Although babies will have teeth at 4 to 6 months, a small number of babies do not come out until about 8 months, which is mainly affected by genetic factors. In addition, very few reasons are abnormal development of the baby's tooth embryo, which needs to be examined in the hospital, as long as there are no other symptoms, there is no need to consider calcium deficiency.
What the baby needs to supplement most is the national consensus of vitamin D, which has the effect of promoting calcium absorption. However, food contains too little vitamin D, and it is too difficult to rely on food supplements, so pediatricians will recommend long-term vitamin D supplementation after the baby returns home.
Here we need a very important knowledge of science popularization: more sun exposure is beneficial to the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, because the vitamin D required by the human body, of which 90% need to rely on sun exposure to obtain.
The principle is that the skin is exposed to ultraviolet rays in the sun to make vitamin D, and the body transfers vitamin D3 to active vitamin D, so vitamin D is called "sunshine vitamin".
The weather is getting better and better, the outdoor sun is shining, it is recommended that mothers take their babies to the outdoor sun to promote the synthesis of vitamin D.
There are several things to pay attention to when going out to walk the baby: first, do not go out in rainy weather; second, do not go out when the sun is strong at noon; third, do not go to noisy places where people are noisy; fourth, go after eating and sleeping.
It is recommended that mothers walk their babies in the community, nearby parks and other places, and carry the wet wipes, paper towels, and water cups commonly used by the baby when going out, because the sun will sweat, so it is necessary to replenish the baby in time.
Finally, do not put the baby in the sun, do not sun in the sun for too long, try to choose to bask in the shade of the tree, and observe the baby's state at any time.
Pay attention to the "Xin MaMa Parenting Sutra", if you have any questions about mother and baby parenting, you can consult me!