Maternal and Child Q & A – food supplement 2-What food iron and more
July 1, 2010
Why do babies from 4 months began to eat “hard” food?
due within 4 months, mainly through sucking eating, can only eat liquid food. But four months later, baby nurse alone can not meet the growth needs to be added complementary feeding, starting taste flavors, to prevent the partial eclipse. Then before the start of the baby's teeth out with mastication. The solid food may enhance chewing movement and stimulate the gums and increase local blood circulation and promote the growth of tooth development is conducive to the eruption of deciduous teeth. The baby has fully developed salivary glands, saliva secretion increased gradually, and contains amylase. Then to the baby eat semi-solid starchy foods such as rice cereal, soft noodles, soft rice, etc., and gradually replaced by solid foods such as bread slice, bread, biscuits and other dry and to help tooth development. Baby from liquid to solid food to eat, from sucking to chewing, need a process of adaptation, this critical period of adaptation is in the baby's 4 ~ 6 months, if you miss this time, enable children to adapt to solid food, very strenuous . Therefore, from the baby's 4 months after birth, the baby should start to eat “hard”, that is to eat semi-solid food. Can not think that baby teeth do not grow, it has been to the baby to eat liquid food. Otherwise, the baby tooth eruption delay would affect the healthy growth of children. When the children after the primary teeth out before, but also due to some hard, thick need to be fully chewed food to the children to eat, to exercise the teeth of the chewing ability of children to promote the development of jaws so the teeth in order.
Why not give your baby a cup of tea?
3 years of age children should not drink tea. Tea contains a lot of tannic acid, the body will interfere with the protein in food, minerals and calcium, zinc, iron absorption, leading to a lack of protein and minerals infant affect their normal growth and development. The caffeine in tea is a strong stimulant, may trigger hyperactivity in children.
why the age of the baby can not drink the honey inside?
years of age within the normal flora in the intestines of babies not yet been fully established, after eating into the honey easily cause infection, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms. After the age of the baby, the establishment of intestinal normal flora, Clostridium botulinum spores can be intestinal bifidobacteria and other probiotics You Du inhibition, so no harm eating honey.
years within the baby food should pay attention to?
one should not eat yogurt because the yogurt less calcium, bone development in infants negative; yogurt rich lactic acid bacteria, can inhibit the growth of beneficial bacteria within the intestine, bacteria break the balance, induced diarrhea.
2 should not eat egg white, egg white contains a large number of small molecules of protein, easy to penetrate the blood baby, cause allergic reactions of protein, but can eat egg yolks. After the child's tolerance increased, egg yolk, egg white can eat on.
3 should not eat jelly, jelly soft, smooth and flexible, easily broken, not easily digested, easily strayed into the trachea after the airway blockage and choking, and difficult to remove, will endanger the baby lives.
infants and young children most vulnerable to the lack of which nutrients?
⑴ thermal energy from the protein, and fat metabolism of carbon compounds after a small offer. Such as intake of less (less than breast milk, child partial eclipse, picky eaters, snacks, etc.), will cause energy shortage in the short term performance for the weight gain or slow growth, long term malnutrition.
⑵ protein main protein from animal food or milk available. If, after the birth of insufficient breast milk with artificial feeding, with red rice into rice cereal or malted milk, sweet condensed milk feeding are due to lack of protein, these babies do not look thin, his muscles are not strong, growth is slow, usually more disease.
⑶ cellulose lack of vitamin D, even breast milk, there is a lack of vitamin D, breast-feeding need additional time, while the milk supply to feed those who need even more. After a lack of vitamin D affect bone development susceptible to rickets.
⑷ raw iron Iron is one of blood from the mother after the birth of children were iron storage in the body, for students 3 to 4 months after the needs. If not promptly after 4 months of iron-rich foods will add nutritional iron deficiency anemia occurs. Fish, meat, liver, animal blood and the absorption of iron content of many high iron content in soybeans is not low, vitamin C can promote iron absorption should be appropriate to add to the baby.
⑸ calcium phosphate as an essential component of bone. The current widespread calcium deficiency in adult diets, children are growth stages, the need for calcium than adults. The calcium content in breast milk was low, but calcium, phosphorus ratio appropriate absorption rate; Although the calcium content in milk than in breast high, but high phosphorus, affect calcium absorption. Calcium absorption depends on the role of vitamin D, vitamin D, calcium absorption decreased. Note that the calcium in milk can not be taken at the same time, because the two meet, make milk precipitation.
how self purée?
fish paste: Wash the fish to the internal organs, into the pot and steamed or add Shui Zhushu to net bone, adding seasoning, squeeze into the mud, can be transferred to rice cereal (milk cake) in the food.
purée: Fresh dark-colored vegetables (such as spinach, Chinese cabbage, rape and so on) Wash, chop fine mud, steamed in a bowl covered with lid; carrot, potato, sweet potato and other massive Beautifully slow fire boiled or steamed vegetables after extrusion into mashed; purée in a dressing and a little vegetable oil.
Tofu: The soft tofu cooked add some salt to crush, to join in the feeding porridge or egg yolk.
custards: mix the whole egg, half a small cup of warm water, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, salt a little, to be open before the water pot on Steam. Direct feeding meat pie or liver pudding, or porridge and rot on the side of feeding.
small rice or cornmeal porridge dates: The dates wash, boiled peel, core, pressed into Zaoni, put the cooked rice or cornmeal in a small re-boil Serve.
why the baby over 4 months before adding rice flour?
organs of digestion and metabolism of infants and young children's development and function is not yet mature, and more feeble, but from the moment of birth with the digestion and metabolism on the ability of breast milk. As we age, the baby's digestion and metabolism mature. Therefore, we need to digestion and metabolism of the characteristics of your baby, make rational feeding, growth and development in order to meet the needs of the baby.
baby inadequate secretion of several digestive enzymes. At birth, pepsin and trypsin have been able to secrete sufficient to meet the needs of protein digestion; and fat digestion and absorption rate of slightly more, 80% to 85%; responsible for digesting food amylase cereal until 4 After 6 months, until secretion. Therefore, rice and other cereals, starchy food should be alive after 4 to 6 months to start adding.
Why 4 to 6 months of age to start add egg yolk?
egg yolk is rich in phospholipids, protein, calcium, scales, iron, and vitamins A, D, etc., 4 to 6 months of age in order to milk as the main food, low iron content of these foods but this time the baby body iron storage is also almost depleted the body storage of iron deficiency there is insufficient hemoglobin synthesis may be due to anemia 4 to 6 months in infants on the nutritional content of egg yolk is the ability to absorb the use of timely supplemented with egg yolk can prevent nutritional iron deficiency anemia.
how to increase starchy food supplement baby?
Generally infants to 3 ~ 6 months until fully developed salivary glands, saliva is also at this time have enough enzymes to digestion of starch starchy foods, so about 4 months can give baby powder Gamus paste and other semi-liquid food. From the small start to grow after 5 months to change eating rotten teeth rotten porridge or noodles, after 6 months can chew biscuits, bread and other exercises to chew tablets.
As time increases, the baby's activity also gradually increased, then increased consumption of calories, in order to supplement the heat, gradually increase the baby's starchy food is very important.
how to increase animal food baby?
5 ~ 6 months of age can eat steamed or Dunlan of fish, lean meat at the end, add a small amount of salt can be. Chopped fried animal blood is also very good food, can be mixed with the blood of these animals fed infants in the porridge to eat. Animal blood iron and more inexpensive, the child is easily absorbed. In the production of fish, meat, animal blood should add a little vegetable oil, because vegetable oil is not only to provide the energy and fat content, but also to increase the aroma of food can improve the baby's appetite.
8 months onwards, eat all yellow, fish, poultry, Gan Ni, etc., produced when the materials should crumble, soft, salt and sugar, not fried, so easy baby chewing and digestion, while both the food color, smell and taste.
baby can eat coarse grains it?
added to baby foods containing starch when we advocate adding some beans and grains. Because vegetable protein soy protein with the best, add some soy flour, millet flour, also increase the number of protein, trace elements and vitamin B family. Brown rice and rough surface than the polished rice, strong flour with vitamins B1 and crude fiber and more on the baby's digestion and also has some advantages. Tofu, soy bean and clay 8 months later to add more appropriate.
which food iron and more?
iron is an essential component of the human body produce red blood cells. Full-term newborns in the liver storage many come from the maternal body, but in 5,6 months, the iron gradually by the body on the hematopoietic system used, when the phenomenon occurs with iron deficiency. Iron deficiency, mainly from iron deficiency anemia, also known as nutritional anemia. Therefore, iron is very important during this period.
if the baby is not the digestive system disorders, iron intake from food. Iron-rich foods are the following: animal liver, egg yolk, animal blood, red lean meat, black fungus, algae, lily, mushroom, green rape, spinach, sesame, beans, dried bean, yeast, peach, apricot, black plums and so on.