Health tips: artificial feeding baby should be properly fed with water. Pure breast fed babies do not need to supplement water, minerals and vitamins, because the proportion of fat, protein, water and sugar in breast milk is perfect, which is enough to meet the needs of various nutrients for the growth of babies, and easy to digest and absorb; On the contrary, if too much water is fed too early, it will inhibit the sucking ability of newborns, reduce the amount of milk they absorb, which is not conducive to growth and development.
Artificial feeding baby, you need to feed water between two feeding milk. More than 80% of the protein in milk is casein, which has large molecular weight and is not easy to digest; the lactose content in milk is also less than that in human milk, which can easily lead to constipation of the baby, and adding water to the baby is conducive to relieving constipation. Moreover, milk contains high calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, and the baby's kidney is not yet mature. In order to let excessive minerals and protein metabolites be discharged from the kidney, enough water is also needed.
What should formula fed infants pay attention to?
1. Drink less water before going to bed: newborn babies can't completely control their urination after deep sleep at night. If you drink too much water before going to bed, it's easy to wet the bed. Even if you don't wet the bed, it will affect the quality of sleep.
2. Drink less and eat more: the method of replenishing water for the newborn should be correct, and the baby should often drink a certain amount of water, so as to drink less and eat more. Don't wait until the child is thirsty to think of replenishing water for the child, because when the child is thirsty, it shows that the water in the body has lost its balance, and the body cells have been dehydrated.
3. Avoid excessive drinking after thirst: when you are extremely thirsty, you should let your baby drink a small amount of water first, take a rest for a while, and then drink after the physical condition is gradually stable. Don't wait until you are very thirsty to drink too much water at a time, because the baby's body will drink too much water in a short time, which will make the blood concentration in the body drop sharply, thus increasing the workload of the heart, and may even appear panic, shortness of breath, sweating and other phenomena.
4. Boiled water is the best water supplement: for babies, especially newborns, boiled water is the best water supplement choice. Because water is one of the six nutrients, not only can supplement the baby's water loss, but also has many functions, such as heat dissipation, regulating water and electrolyte balance. And boiled water is completely safe, will not have any negative effects, so as a daily liquid supplement is the best.
5. One day's drinking volume should be controlled at 10-15% of the baby's body weight: the amount of water that the baby needs to supplement every day accounts for about 10-15% of the baby's body weight, so it's OK to control the daily drinking volume within this range. However, it doesn't need to be determined too accurately, just according to the actual situation of the baby.
6. Taste should be light: no matter what you drink for your baby to replenish water, you should pay attention to dilute it with water at the beginning, and the baby's drink must be light in taste and low in sugar. Because sugar is too high for the baby's stomach and appetite will have an impact.
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