Drinking the wrong milk can affect your child’s development!

Breast milk is the most ideal and suitable natural food for infants, however, some infants cannot be breastfed for various reasons and must be replaced with milk. If you do not pay attention, you may also fall into the misconceptions of feeding milk. One of the misconceptions is that the thicker the milk, the better. The so-called too thick milk, refers to the addition of more milk powder and less water, or the fear of fresh milk is too light, in which the addition of milk powder, the concentration exceeds the normal proportion of standards. In fact, the concentration of milk should be proportional to the age of the child, and its concentration should be gradually increased according to the age of the month. Too thick, the milk of its nutrient concentration, more than the infant’s gastrointestinal tract digestion and absorption limits, not only digestion, but also may damage the digestive organs, so there will be diarrhea, constipation, loss of appetite and even refusal to eat, and over time its weight not only can not increase, and even cause acute hemorrhagic small bowel inflammation. So feeding infants should depend on the quality of milk powder (or milk), the age of the child to decide how much water to add. The more sugar you add, the better. The purpose of adding sugar to milk is to increase the calories supplied by carbohydrates, but the amount of sugar must be quantified, generally 5-8 grams of sucrose per 100 milliliters of milk, too much sugar is detrimental to the growth and development of infants. Too much sugar in the infant’s body will trap water in the body and as a result, the muscles and subcutaneous tissues become flabby and weak. Such infants look fat, but the body resistance is very poor, the medical term “mud paste” body shape. Excess sugar stored in the body also becomes a risk factor for dental caries, myopia, arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Too much sugar affects the appetite and makes it easy to have malnutrition. Myth No. 3: Condensed milk is used as a milk substitute. Condensed milk is a kind of dairy product, which is made by evaporating fresh milk to 2/5 of its original volume and then adding 4% of sugar in a can. It is not scientific to use condensed milk as a nutritious milk substitute to feed babies. The reasoning behind this is that condensed milk is too sweet and must be diluted with 5 to 8 times more water to make the concentration of sugar and sweetness drop, but when the sweetness meets the requirements, the concentration of protein and fat is reduced by half compared to fresh milk, which does not meet the needs of infant growth and development, and if condensed milk is fed to infants as the main food for a long time, it will inevitably cause pale infants who do not gain weight and are usually prone to illness, as well as A variety of fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies; second, if you add less water to condensed milk, so that the concentration of protein and fat close to the level of milk, then the sugar content will be high, with such sweet condensed milk feeding infants and often cause diarrhea in children; third, too sweet will make the child’s appetite, and once the child is accustomed to sweet taste and will bring difficulties to the addition of complementary foods later. Therefore, condensed milk should not be used to feed infants. The fourth misconception is to use “yogurt drinks” to feed infants at will. Although “yogurt” is a health drink that helps digestion, it should not be used to feed babies at will. This is because, “yogurt” in the lactic acid bacteria can inhibit and destroy many pathogenic bacteria, but also destroy the normal growth conditions of the human body’s beneficial flora, but also affect the normal digestive function, especially gastroenteritis infants and premature infants, if they drink too much “yogurt If too much “yogurt” is given to them, it may cause vomiting and gangrenous enteritis.