A healthy body must ensure a balance of water, adults need about 30 to 40 ml of water per kilogram of body weight per day, while infants and children need 100 to 160 ml, which is 3 to 4 times more than adults. Young parents may have long been accustomed to give their babies water every day, but do they understand what kind of water to give their babies to drink? What kind of water should not drink? How to drink water is the most scientific? (A) what water to drink? Boiled water can not only replenish the baby’s lost water, but also to dissipate heat, is the best hydration choice for babies. Boiled water is the natural state of water, after multi-layer purification process, the microorganisms in the water has been killed in the high temperature, and the calcium p magnesium and other trace elements in it is very beneficial to the body. Note: to give babies to drink fresh plain water, and exposed to the air for more than 4 hours of boiled water, biological activity will lose more than 70%. (B) what temperature water is the most appropriate to drink? Water that is too cold or too hot can damage the baby’s delicate gastric mucosa and affect digestive capacity. In summer, it is best for babies to drink the same room temperature of plain water, while in winter, it is best to drink plain water at about 40 degrees Celsius. Boiled and cooled to 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, boiled water has specific biological activity, and the characteristics of the baby’s internal cellular fluid is very close, so there is a good affinity with the body’s cells, easier to penetrate the cell membrane, promote metabolism and enhance immune function. (iii) How much to drink? Age, room temperature, activity level, body temperature, water content in milk or food, and other factors will affect the baby’s need for water. Newborn babies, due to the number of breastfeeding, as long as the mother’s milk is sufficient, feeding l to 2 times a day water will be fine. As the baby grows older, the number of feedings and the amount of water per feeding should be increased appropriately. If you find that your baby is pouting and looking for food, often crying, irritable, difficult to sleep, urinating less and dark yellow, you should think about whether your baby needs water. Feed your baby water, if he does not want to drink, parents should not force, which may indicate that the baby’s body has enough water. In general, babies within 3 years of age should drink no more than 100 ml of water each time, and more than 3 years of age should drink about 150 ml of water each time. (4) Drink less water before meals and bedtime, drink more water after bedtime, do not drink when thirsty As long as the baby’s urine volume is normal, you can let the baby drink a small amount of water several times according to the actual situation. If the baby sweats more, you should give the baby to increase the number of times to drink water, rather than the amount of water. Be careful not to drink more water before meals, this will dilute the gastric juice, affecting the baby’s appetite and is not conducive to the digestion of food. In addition do not drink more water before bedtime, especially the younger babies after they are asleep, they can not yet fully control urination, if they drink too much water before bedtime, it will affect the quality of sleep or even urine loss, sometimes the next day will find puffy eyelids, but also affect the mental mood. The correct method should be to let the baby drink a small amount of water half an hour before meals, which can promote the secretion of saliva and also help digest food; drink less before bedtime and more after bedtime. After a night’s sleep, the body water loss, the need to get up in time to replenish, so the morning after waking up on an empty stomach to drink a glass of water beneficial to blood circulation, but also to promote brain clarity, so that the day’s thinking is clear and agile. In addition, we should be careful not to drink when thirsty. Drinking water too fast and too quickly will invariably swallow a lot of air together, easily cause hiccups or bloating, it is best to first contain the water in the mouth, and then slowly drink, especially for babies with a weak stomach, drinking water should be more slowly drink a mouthful. (E) baby should not drink several kinds of water 1, tap water: some parents found that the baby thirsty, it is customary to open the faucet, pick up a glass of tap water to the baby to drink, in fact, this is not right. Tap water and metal pipe wall or faucet metal cavity contact, will occur after the hydration reaction, the formation of metal contaminated water, and tap water may also contain bacteria harmful to the baby’s body, easy to get sick after drinking diarrhea. It is best to drink boiled and boiled for 3 minutes of fresh boiled water, because both the chlorine and some harmful substances in the water is evaporated, but also contains more than a dozen minerals needed to maintain the body’s needs. 2, drinks: many parents like to buy their babies a variety of novel and expensive juice, soda or other drinks to drink instead of plain water, which is very incorrect practice. Drinks often contain more sugar and electrolytes, although the taste is very good, but drink easy to stay in the stomach for a long time, the gastrointestinal tract to produce adverse stimuli, affecting the baby’s digestion and appetite. 3, long-standing boiled water: the water stored at room temperature for more than three days or water fountains, automatic water heaters overnight reboiled water, it is easy to be contaminated by bacteria, and the organic matter containing nitrogen in boiled water will accelerate the decomposition, so that the generation of nitrite increases. After the baby drinks, nitrite combined with hemoglobin in the blood, will affect the oxygen transport function of the blood, the symptoms of hypoxia. 4, too sweet water: drink too sweet water will initially promote the speed of intestinal peristalsis, but soon after the intestinal peristalsis will be inhibited, resulting in abdominal distension. Baby’s sense of taste is much more sensitive than adults, adults feel sweet water, too sweet for babies. Newborns fed sugar boiled water concentration to 5% to 10% is good, adults can taste between sweet and non-sweet, it is best to feed with a small spoon and do not use a pacifier or rubber nipple, which is easy to give babies the illusion. 5, ice water: drink a lot of ice water is likely to cause vasoconstriction of the gastric mucosa, affecting digestion, stimulating the gastrointestinal, and even lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea. (F) what to drink in case of illness? 1, diarrhea, vomiting – plain water + millet soup, apple water, carrot water Weak spleen and stomach is the innate physiological characteristics of children, which determines that they are more likely to suffer from diarrhea, constipation and other digestive tract diseases. Summer is the high season for children to suffer from infectious diarrhea. Diarrhea and vomiting are likely to cause loss of water and electrolytes in the baby’s body, and if they are not rehydrated in time, they may cause dehydration. Therefore, once your baby has diarrhea and vomiting symptoms, in addition to seeking medical attention and giving your baby medicine and plain water as prescribed by the doctor, you can also make some homemade hydrating drinks for your baby. Millet soup, apple water and carrot water have the effect of stopping diarrhea and strengthening the spleen, so you can add water to these ingredients and make soup for your baby. 2, cold, fever – plain water + fresh juice, light salt water Baby cold, fever, with the body temperature rises, the body will lose a lot of water, so we must pay attention to hydration. Whether breastfeeding or formula feeding, try to let the baby eat milk normally, because milk itself contains water. In addition, you should give your baby more plain water to hydrate and help reduce the fever. Older babies can be given some diluted fresh fruit juice, as fresh fruit juice is rich in vitamins, which is good for babies to resist diseases. A small amount of light salt water can not only replenish water, but also play an antiseptic role. 3, cough, phlegm – plain water + pear water, water chestnut water If the baby has symptoms of lung heat, manifested as coughing, coughing phlegm, you can cook some water chestnut water or pear water to drink. Water chestnuts can clear the fire, and pear water has the same effect. If the pear water with some lily or Chuanbei boiled together, the effect is better. 4, constipation, internal heat – boiled water + white radish water, green water, winter melon water baby stool dry, constipation is a very headache for mothers. In addition to asking the doctor to do diagnostic treatment, you can also use food therapy to complement the treatment, such as allowing the baby to eat foods rich in coarse fiber and drink more water. Boiling water with white radish for babies is also a supplementary treatment. This is because white radish has the effect of ventilating and moving Qi. You can also boil some green vegetable water for your baby to drink. If the baby has yellow urine, thick tongue and dry stool, it means that the baby has internal heat, you can boil water with winter melon for the baby to drink, winter melon can clear the fire and diuretic. As you can see, even such a small thing as drinking water is not everyone can do a good job, I hope the above suggestions can give parents some help, healthy drinking water, scientific drinking water.