After becoming parents, we not only became "scientists", but also "poop supervisors", urging the baby to on time every day and observing the smoothness of the baby's.
If the baby can't pull out one day or the is very difficult, parents will urge the baby to eat more foods rich in dietary fiber, but sometimes they will find that eating is useless, and even the baby pulls worse.
For how to eat dietary fiber to help babies defecate, everyone is still confused, today we asked the nutritionist Zhou Li to talk in detail.
Eat a lot of dietary fiber,
Is your baby still constipated?
Recently I met a mom who came to consult:
The baby is 16 months old, weighs 10 kg, eats vegetables and fruits every day, and drinks water.
There is a bowel movement every day, and the defecation time is relatively fixed, but it is very difficult to defecate recently, and the front is a dry and hard small grain, and after half a day, it can smoothly pull out the soft stool.
Looking at the child's reddened little face, the adults are very anxious!
I asked my mom to list the baby's food schedule for the last two days, using one of the days as an example to see what the problem was:
Milk: 500 mL
Sweet potato soft rice: sweet potato 20 g, rice 40 g, water 150 mL
Albino shrimp: 50 g
Steamed striped fish: 50 g
Fried yam: 30 g of hollandaise beans, 30 g of yam
Lightly simmered broccoli: 100 g
Apple + orange: 100 g
Oil: 10 g
Water: Cup of straws approximately 30 mL each time, 2 to 3 times a day
For babies over one year old, the diet on this day is very balanced, with meat, eggs and milk, and foods rich in dietary fiber such as sweet potatoes, yams, broccoli and so on are also abundant.
But why is there still a situation of "poop is hard, is dry and hard"? The crux of the problem is the amount of water your baby drinks.
Many times, when we mention promoting bowel movements, the first thing that comes to mind is to eat more foods rich in dietary fiber.
However, the role of dietary fiber in promoting bowel movement is inseparable from the help of moisture, so if you want to solve the baby's defecation difficulties, it is not enough to eat more dietary fiber.
We may wish to learn more about the relationship between dietary fiber, water and poop, which is more conducive to helping the baby smoothly pull out a good piece of through dietary adjustment.
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Dietary fiber is how to put poop
Take away from our bodies
Dietary fiber is part of the plant, and its special place is that it will not be digested and absorbed by the digestive tract after entering the body; More is mixed with food scraps to form a poop, and make the poop soft, promote intestinal peristalsis, and smoothly excrete the poop.
Dietary fiber is divided into insoluble dietary fiber and soluble dietary fiber according to different solubility, and their responsibilities are also different.
Insoluble dietary fiber, which forms the skeleton of the poop
Insoluble dietary fiber is dietary fiber that cannot be dissolved in water. Like wheat bran, vegetables, and fruit skins are rich in insoluble dietary fiber.
Insoluble dietary fiber is difficult to break down, and they quickly pass through the intestines and adsorb food scraps in the intestines, forming a poop.
And continuous adsorption of residue, so that the volume and weight of the stool is larger and larger, promote intestinal peristalsis, accelerate the discharge of stool.
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Soluble dietary fiber, which changes the characteristics of the stool
Soluble dietary fiber is dietary fiber that can be dissolved in water. For example, the β-dextran in oats and the pectin in fruit are soluble dietary fibers, and its role is to make the stool softer and larger.
Soluble dietary fiber has a strong water absorption capacity, and it can absorb 1.5 to 25 times its own weight.
It mainly obtains water from the food and intestines that are ingested together, so that the stool becomes soft and better excreted.
At the same time, the solubility and viscosity of soluble dietary fiber are better, it will be more easily decomposed by bacterial fermentation in the intestine, indirectly promoting the growth of flora and increasing the volume of feces, to promote the peristalsis of the large intestine.
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When water intake is insufficient, soluble dietary fiber will not be able to obtain enough water and will instead absorb limited water into the intestines; The insoluble dietary fiber is still allowing the poop team to grow, resulting in large stools and dry knots in the intestine.
At this time, the child will have a stomach discomfort and has been squirming, but the bowel movement is very difficult, just like the opening case.
Therefore, while consuming rich dietary fiber, don't forget to add enough water, under their joint action, in order to make the baby's stool smoother.
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Babies need it every day
How much dietary fiber and water to consume
How much dietary fiber does your baby need per day?
We can know that the intake of sufficient amount of dietary fiber is conducive to stool and bowel movements, which is one of the important prerequisites for the baby's inconvenience and secretion.
So how much is appropriate to eat per day?
According to the Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics:
Babies under 2 years of age consume 5 g of dietary fiber per day. Recommended intake for children over 2 years of age: age + 5 to 10 g of dietary fiber, up to a maximum of 25 g.
Note: There is not enough evidence that excessive dietary fiber intake improves your baby's constipation.
We only need to give the child enough to eat, the intake of excessive dietary fiber, will lead to the stomach emptying time longer, but may affect the baby's absorption of other minerals.
The following is a list of foods for babies with 5 g of dietary fiber per day, you can refer to it:
staple food
About 1 g of dietary fiber
Whole grain or mixed beans 20 g: brown rice, oats, corn, mung beans, red beans, etc
vegetable
About 2 g of dietary fiber
Vegetables 100 g: fresh beans, mushrooms, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc
fruit
About 2 g of dietary fiber
Fruit 100 g: apples, pears, kiwis, dragon fruit, figs, etc
How much water does my baby need to replenish each day?
Before adding complementary foods, if there are no special circumstances, children do not need to drink additional water. After the addition of complementary foods, the amount of water needs to be gradually increased.
Your baby's minimum daily fluid intake is related to weight, such as—
Infant 5 kg: approx. 500 mL per day
Children 10 kg: approx. 960 mL per day
Children 15 kg: approx. 1260 mL per day
Children 20 kg: approx. 1500 mL per day
The liquids mentioned here include the milk that the baby consumes, the soups in the food, and the drinking water.
In the case we mentioned at the beginning: a 16-month-old baby weighing 10 kg needed 960 mL of water per day.
We and the mother calculated in detail the baby's current water intake:
There are 500 mL of water in the milk, and the baby drinks 60 to 90 mL of water daily in 150 mL of water supplement
These add up to the baby's daily water intake of 710 to 740 mL, which does not reach the minimum 960 mL of water intake at all, so it causes the baby to have difficulty defecating.
When the dietary fiber intake is too much, in the case of not affecting the amount of milk and complementary foods, it is generally recommended to increase the amount of water (50 ~ 200 mL) appropriately, so that it is more conducive to the smooth discharge of stool.
The detailed content of dietary fiber is here ~ I hope that everyone's baby can easily pull out a good every day
Source: Lilac Mom