Many people, including many doctors, whenever they come across a patient with phenylketonuria, will tell the parents of the child without thinking and with great concern: stop breastfeeding quickly, no more breast milk. There are quite a few people who have good intentions and think they have done a good thing.
Phenylketonuric children must limit the intake of phenylalanine, but not can not intake, because phenylalanine can only be obtained through dietary intake, long-term intake especially children, will lack of phenylalanine and nutritional diseases, so the child must intake a certain amount of phenylalanine to meet the needs of growth and development, its treatment is also called low phenylalanine diet therapy. In addition to the basic advantage of having much more phenylalanine than cow’s milk, breast milk is the best natural nutrition for children with phenylketonuria because it contains one third of the phenylalanine of cow’s milk. I hope that all of you reading this article must eliminate the flakes and give these children the right guidance.