How can I tell if it’s time for my child to hydrate? As with breastfeeding, there is no need to follow a strict schedule for drinking water, especially for older children. The best principle is to give your child water if he wants to drink it, and don’t force him to drink it if he doesn’t want to. Of course, parents or guardians should combine the weather conditions, combined with the child’s exercise, supplemented by careful observation, to see if the child’s lips are dry, there is no mouth smash bar action, in addition to remember how much water today, according to a series of circumstances to let the child hydration. What are the harmful effects of prolonged dehydration on a child’s body? Chronic water deprivation can become a habit for your child’s body, which is not good for your child’s health, but because everyone is different, the symptoms may be different. For example, the children go out to play together, everyone is half a day without drinking water, but some people have uremia? It is likely that the long-term formation of bad drinking habits, all of a sudden through the kidney blood flow is not enough, resulting in oliguria or anuria state, so that the impairment of kidney function. Does the child who sweats a lot have to drink light salt water to replenish salt? Our daily dietary structure already contains enough salt, there is no need to specifically to supplement, although the child’s body structure so that they are more likely to sweat than adults, but as long as the supplementation of plain water can be, because even just a very light saline, may make the child gastrointestinal discomfort, counterproductive. It is not advisable to replace mineral water hydration with beverages, right? Drinks do not have a lot of people think that a lot of harm, a lot of drinks are through the taste to attract customers, which still contains 98% of the water, just by adding auxiliary elements to change the taste, especially children’s beverages, very much cater to children’s tastes, if you exclude unscrupulous merchants added harmful elements of the impact of the appropriate drink, the impact on the child is not great. But Director Chen emphasized that if some children drink some kind of drink for a long time, especially addictive, so do not drink other water, which is a lot of damage to the body, so drink mineral water hydration is still the best choice.