Posted on 1st Jun 2010 @ 3:21 PM
Summer has arrived, but how many parents know how to take care of your baby? Here are 8 suggestion for parents in summer, which is the guid for parents to take care of their baby in hot summer.
Not weaned
Children are breastfed, do not rush weaning in the summer. There are two reasons: First, high-temperature season secretion of digestive enzymes fewer children, in this case completely normal diet foods, easy to cause indigestion; second, summer active bacteria, easy to contaminate food and lead to enteritis or dysentery and other intestinal infectious diseases occurred. It is best to be wean after summer.
Adjust the recipe
High summer temperatures, sweat more, so it is necessary for children to increase food supply. And the rate of increase is 10% - 15%. To this end, appropriate for kids should eat a little more milk or dairy products, eat more fresh vegetables. Vegetables rich in vitamins and trace elements, this vitamins can improve food absorption and utilization of protein. So as to promote children's development.
In addition, the water should be added. So it is better to feed your children with some fuirts, yogurt, vagetable soup, boiled water after or before the nap.
Drink less fruit juice and beverage
Juice taste good, and a certain amount of vitamins and minerals, but lack of protein and fat which is the necessary for child development. If drinking too much juice, bound to affect their main meal of the food intake, nutritional status of its body out of balance. Generally to drink juice no more than 100 ml per day for children.
It is easy to loss potassium of body if children drinking cola too much. Then lead a weak stituation and the skin is not easy to heal after mosquito bites; sour plum drink too much can increase the acid concentration of gastric mucosa damage immature, induced ulcer disease; eating too cold ice cream, etc. more hazardous to the teeth, and easy to induce intussusception and other acute abdomen.
For children, the most safe to drink non-boiled water must go.
Note that calcium
According to clinical medical report, the summer is the high incidence of rickets in children. Hot weatherwill lead to reduced meals for children with poor appetite. Children's calcium intake from food is also less, with sweat more, have too much calcium is lost. Meanwhile, the summer sunlight exposure, children are not many opportunities for outdoor activities. Thus, it is easy to lead to rickets when calcium intake to reduce but the exclusion amount increases. Preventive measure is to take appropriate under the guidance of doctors calcium and vitamin D (daily dosage of 400 units).
Limit eating sweets
In summer, the pediatric outpatient sore long boil of the increase in the number of sick children. The reason, and not unrelated to eat too many sweets, such as white sugar, brown sugar, candy, etc., or sugar, pastries, milk, soy milk and so on. A lot of sugar into the child's body, can increase blood sugar, when blood sugar is too high, they can cause harm: on the one hand to promote sweat contaminated by bacteria on the skin could easily cause a sore boils, prickly heat, skin inflammation disorders such as carbuncle swollen; other On the one hand, producing a large number of acid to break the blood acid-base balance, so that children who become acidic, making a variety of diseases, "breeding ground" (70% of the disease occurs in people who acidic). So, eat less sweet food will not only help children safely the summer, and prevent many diseases.
Caution talcum powder
Mosquitoes, flies over the summer, parents often point for the protection of children a mosquito netting to ward off mosquitoes. But we know that mosquito coils mosquito coils in the particularly poor quality feed, etc. mixed with the enemy the enemy of organophosphorus pesticides, pesticides spread burning smoke, inhaled by the baby prone to cause poisoning. For younger children, the body organ detoxification and those with particularly sensitive to organic phosphorus, it is not appropriate to use.
Do not shave their heads
Hair not only protect the head, but also distributed over the body heat. So shaved head is not only easy to hurt a child's skin but also reduced the cooling of body. It is best to hair cut with a flat for baby boys, and with a doll for baby girls.