Parents who have newborns at home, are you usually making milk powder right? Today Xiaobian and everyone to share, a few steps of soaking milk powder and a few common misunderstandings, you parents should take a serious look.
Common myths:
1. Use boiling boiling water to brew baby milk powder
Families with elderly people, generally like to boil water to make tea, from the daily habit point of view, including adult drinking soy milk crystals, adult milk powder or elderly milk powder and fruit juice powder and other products, often habitual use of boiling water to mix, so can quickly stimulate the aroma, rapid dissolution of the role, so many elderly or novice parents also subjectively think that baby milk powder should also be brewed with boiling water, some even think that high temperature can kill bacteria, protect the baby's food health and safety.
The truth is: brewing baby milk powder should not be used boiling water, because infant formula is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates and vitamin A, vitamin D and calcium, iron and other trace elements, the temperature of boiling water will make the whey protein in the milk powder produce clots, thereby affecting the digestion and absorption of children, and high temperature will also destroy the vitamins in the milk powder, especially the milk powder with the addition of immune active substances, the activity of immune substances will also be destroyed.
2. Add milk powder first and then add water
New parents in order to facilitate the first addition of milk powder and then add warm water to brew, in fact, this is the most common method of mismatching, according to the public's habits, usually put tea leaves first and then add water, refer to most people will pour the powdery punch into the cup or bowl first, and then add water to brew. However, infant milk powder cannot do this, and the correct order of preparation should be to take the appropriate amount of warm water first, and then pour the appropriate amount of milk powder according to the proportion of the preparation.
Here novice parents should pay attention to, the proportion of each milk powder is fixed, such as 120ml of water to be equipped with 3 spoons of milk powder, parents can first add less than 120ml of water, and then add milk powder, so that after brewing is close to 120ml of tick line, milk powder concentration is just right. If you add milk powder first and then add water, still add to the original scale, then the milk will be thickened. Babies have eaten thick milk, gastrointestinal digestion capacity is difficult to bear, and the excretion capacity of the kidneys is also unbearable.
3. Use mineral water to brew milk powder
Some novice parents are "excessively" careful, thinking that their boiling water is not clean, like to use the mineral water bought in the supermarket is more assured, here Xiaobian reminds everyone not to use mineral water or pure water to brew milk powder, because mineral water is rich in a large number of calcium phosphate, phosphate and other minerals, which will affect the nutritional value and taste of milk powder, and the baby will lead to the intake of a large number of minerals, which may cause constipation symptoms.
4. The milk powder is too strong
You new parents should see the instructions for the use of milk powder cans, different milk powder spoon specifications are not the same, put in a few spoons of milk powder, with how many milliliters of water have regulations, the general formula milk powder will be marked on the packaging of a clear proportion of the punch, the labeling form is mostly "N ml warm water plus n spoons of milk powder", and to use the milk powder itself equipped with a special milk powder spoon.
In particular, grandparents will think that the milk powder flushed according to the proportion of the standard is too thin, so that the baby is easy to be hungry, so they will rush the milk powder very strongly without authorization. The most common consequence of such a practice is that the baby is constipated and on fire, which will cause the capillaries in the child's brain to rupture, resulting in bleeding, and finally affecting the baby's intellectual development. Because milk powder contains sodium ions, it is necessary to dilute with sufficient amount of boiled water. If the concentration of milk powder is too high, the baby will increase the pressure on the blood vessel wall after drinking, and eventually lead to capillary rupture and bleeding.
5. Pay attention to drinking time.
For infants and young children, it is recommended to make a total of 6 times in the morning, middle and evening (specifically refer to the instructions on milk powder), use the measuring spoon attached to the milk powder, fill it, scrape it flat, pour it into the bottle and add an appropriate amount of water to brew. It should be noted that before brewing, read the instructions on the milk powder can, and do not add milk powder or the amount of water brewed by yourself. Then, it is best to drink within half an hour, if not drunk in time, it is best to pour it directly, not repeated heating, so it is necessary to estimate the amount of drinking in advance to avoid waste.
6. Punching technique
The method of mixing milk powder is also very exquisite, and some parents will shake the bottle up and down hard in order to shake the milk powder, which is wrong. Violent shaking can easily lead to the production of air in the milk, and drinking air when drinking milk is easy to cause the baby to choke and spit on milk.
The following small series for everyone to sort out some precautions when brewing milk powder, especially for novice parents and the elderly at home to learn:
Notes:
1. Wash and dry your hands with soap or water before mixing the milk powder.
2. Before brewing milk powder, all feeding utensils should be boiled in boiling water for more than 5 minutes.
3. Bring the flushing water to a boil, let it cool to 42~48 °C, and then add an appropriate amount of flushing water to the milk cup.
4. Refer to the feeding dosage table to take out an appropriate amount of milk powder and add it to the milk cup, stir until the milk powder is fully dissolved
5. When the milk temperature is suitable, you can feed, cover the lock ring and the nipple, you can feed the baby. To make your baby feel more like sucking breast milk, the mother can choose different flow nipples according to the baby's age.
6. After the milk powder is opened, it should not be stored in the refrigerator, because the temperature difference and humidity difference between the inside and outside of the refrigerator are easy to cause the deliquesis of infant milk powder, and the plastic lid or the mouth of the bag can be placed in a dark, cool and dry place;
7. Milk powder should follow the provisions of the use time after opening, and should be discarded for more than one month after opening. The shelf life date on the packaging of infant formula is the date at the time of unopening and suitable storage conditions, and once opened, this date cannot be used.
8. In order to avoid the loss, contamination and deterioration of milk powder nutrition, after the milk powder is opened, it should be avoided to be exposed to the environment in direct contact with the air, and it is best to vacuum preservation, vacuum preservation can well maintain the fresh quality of milk powder.