The sensitivity of the baby to salt is higher than that of adults. When the salt content of food is 0.25%, adults may not feel salty, but infants and young children are completely aware of it. This is because the sensitivity to salt gradually decreases with age. Therefore, parents may feel salty when their parents feel brackish, and the baby will not be able to speak and express. When the time is long, the baby will have tolerance for this saltiness and will be subjectively recognized. This salty degree. If the parents do not intend to control, the baby's subsequent salt intake will gradually increase in most cases, which may have potential harm to the baby's health.
A large amount of salt is a burden on infants and young children's immature kidneys. The Chinese Nutrition Society recommends 200 mg of sodium for infants within 6 months, and only 0.5 g for salt, while other food ingredients also contain a certain amount of sodium. Parents do not need to add salt to baby food supplements within 6 months. They mainly focus on light diets, allowing babies to start low-salt diets from an early age. After 6 months, you may consider adding some appropriate, but parents should not try to eat first. If you use your own criteria to measure the saltiness of the food, you will enter the misunderstanding.
Baby's natural salt intake from breast milk and milk can already meet the needs of the body. Do not add salt to the baby's vegetable water.
The whole family mobilizes and eats light food. Children's tastes are related to parents, parents' tastes are heavy, and the salt content of children's diet will also increase. It is understood that at present, the salt content of the family in our country is generally excessive. When parents prepare meals for their children, they must pay attention to reducing the composition of salt.
After the baby is 1 year old, it can be properly eaten with iodized salt, when cooking or when making soup, wait until it is cooked or put salt in the pan. This works better.
If your baby suffers from diseases such as heart disease, nephritis, and respiratory infections, you must strictly control the salt intake in your diet. You can use the method of adding salt at mealtimes, that is, add less salt when the dishes are cooked, or salt when the dishes are cooked without salt. This will cause the salt to adhere only to the surface of the dish, leaving only a bit of salt but it will taste like it.
When the baby sweats more in summer, or when the baby has diarrhea or vomiting, the baby's salt intake may increase slightly compared to usual. Should pay attention to the baby to supplement from the diet.
The South likes to eat ume dried vegetables, salted fish and bacon, etc. These foods are generally high in sodium, and babies should try to avoid them. In addition, bean paste, chili sauce, mustard, sauerkraut, cucumber sauce, yellow sauce, miso, fermented bean curd, salted duck eggs, etc. should also be avoided as far as possible for the baby.
The daily diet in the North is mostly salty and can be properly improved in taste and replaced with sweet and sour instead of salty. For example, the use of sucrose to cook sweet and sour flavor dishes, or vinegar with cold dishes, can make up for the lack of salty taste, but also promote appetite.
When you taste the baby's finished complementary food, you will feel a bit unpalatable and tasteless, but this is in line with your baby's taste. Your weight will be several times that of your baby's weight. Don't use your standards to judge your baby's taste. . If you eat properly, your baby will eat salty.
Five major hazards of high salt diet for babies
1. A high-salt diet can reduce the secretion of saliva from the oral cavity and reduce lysozyme, which is beneficial to the presence of various bacteria and viruses in the upper respiratory tract.
2. After the high-salt diet, due to the infiltration of salt, it can kill the normal parasitic flora of the upper respiratory tract, causing dysbacteriosis and leading to morbidity.
3, high-salt diet can inhibit the proliferation of oral mucosal epithelial cells to make them lose disease resistance.
4. High-salt diets can affect the absorption of zinc in children and cause zinc deficiency in children.
5, high salt diet will increase the baby's heart, kidney burden. The baby's kidneys are not yet fully developed and are not enough to penetrate too much salt. If too much salt is added to the food supplement, it will increase the baby's kidney burden and increase the burden on the heart, thereby impairing the function of the kidneys and heart. Moreover, the dietary habit of cultivating heavy salt from an early age is not easy to correct after growing up, and heavy salt eating habits can easily cause diseases such as high blood pressure.
When I was a child, my baby was in a period of long physical development. Because some organs in my body were not fully developed, I couldn't recognize the load of the body. Usually, parents can let their children eat more fruits, which is very beneficial to their growth!
