Text: Jing Ma
Calcium, which is essential for a child's height!
Meimei's parents are not very tall, and because of the disadvantage of height, they feel discriminated against in daily life, Meimei was born prematurely, and the parents are worried that the child will lose at the starting line, and it just so happens that the child has not grown teeth when he is preparing for 10 months, so the mother began to give the child calcium supplements, and it is crazy calcium supplements. #头条创作挑战赛#
Unexpectedly, when the child was more than a year old, he was found to have blood in the urine, and he was quickly sent to the hospital, and the doctor found that the child had multiple stones in both kidneys, and the upper and lower ends of the left ureter were blocked with stones, and the hydronephrosis appeared in both kidneys, and the examination found that the kidney function had also changed, and this one-year-old girl had 9 stones in it, the largest reaching two centimeters.
The doctor found that the reason was because the parents felt that the child needed calcium supplementation, and frantically gave the child calcium supplementation, resulting in the appearance of stones.
Coincidentally, a 5-month-old baby in Heilongjiang also appeared double kidney stones, it turned out that the child was born not long after, the throat always seemed to have phlegm, and later went to the hospital to check and found that it was congenital laryngeal stridor, laryngeal achondroplasia, the doctor said that there was a certain relationship with calcium deficiency, and parents began to artificially supplement calcium for their children.
Unexpectedly, when the child went for a check-up at 5 months, he found that the child had fluid in his kidneys and both kidneys were covered with stones.
Why do children have stones when they take calcium supplements? In fact, it is because it exceeds the burden of the child's body, the child is mainly milk-based before the age of one, and the calcium content in breast milk is about 34 mg of calcium in 100 ml, and the child drinks about 800~1000 ml of milk every day before the age of one, and 300 mg of calcium can be supplemented through breast milk every day.
According to the latest Dietary Nutrient Reference Intakes for Chinese Residents, children need 200 mg of calcium per day before the age of six months, 250 mg per day for children aged six months to one year, 600 mg per day for children aged one to three, and 800 mg for children over four years old.
Therefore, the child needs no more than 300 mg of calcium per day before the age of one, and these calcium needs can be met by drinking breast milk alone, not to mention that the child also contains a certain amount of calcium in the complementary food after adding complementary food, and then supplementing the child with calcium at this time is a burden for the child's body, and even a harm, when too much calcium is excreted through the child's kidneys, because the excretion capacity of the kidneys is limited, it will lead to stones.
Children should not be supplemented with calcium in infancy, but vitamin D, because breast milk contains less vitamin D, and children need a lot of vitamin D to promote the absorption and utilization of calcium.
Does your child take calcium or vitamin D supplements during infancy? Within two years, these gaps will widen
Gap 1: the health of your child's kidneys
Because too much calcium will cause great pressure on the child's kidneys, if the child is supplemented with calcium since childhood, it is easy to cause the child to have kidney stones, and even kidney function problems.
But if it is vitamin D supplementation, there will be no such problem, because vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, because it is rarely found in natural food, and there is no such thing as breast milk, so we give vitamin D supplementation to children, it is recommended to give 400 units before the age of one year, as long as there are no more than 1,000 units before the age of six months, and there is no big problem if there are no more than 1,500 units from half a year old to one year old.
In fact, the vitamin D we buy on the market is generally 400 units, which is not very tasty, and parents need to feed it, so parents will not be poisoned if they feed one every day.
The second gap: the child's physical health
If the child is simply supplementing calcium, it will cause a burden on the body, and the child will be very irritable, because he supplements a lot of calcium, which will cause pressure on the body and cannot absorb it.
However, if you give your child vitamin D supplements, you can promote better calcium absorption, so your child will sleep well at night and be less irritable during the day, and your child's body will be healthier.
The third gap: the child's height increases
After calcium supplementation, the child's kidney stones will definitely affect the absorption of other nutrients, so it will hinder the growth of the child's height, but if the child is given vitamin D, it can promote the absorption and utilization of calcium, which can make the child grow taller.
Therefore, parents must know that children do not need calcium supplementation when they are young, especially before the age of one, as long as the child can drink full milk, there is no need to supplement calcium, and we need to supplement vitamin D.
When the child is one to three years old, under normal circumstances, the child's calcium needs can be met through a balanced diet, at this time, it is still necessary to insist on supplementing the child with vitamin D.
Therefore, parents must figure out whether to supplement calcium or vitamin D for their children, otherwise the money will be spent and the children will be pitted.
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