"Too much salt will hurt", especially the height. Babies eat more salt and how to eat it are all learned.

Wen Miao mei ma

The topic "Do you want to add salt to complementary food" is a hot search in the maternal and child circle all the year round, and the heat has never subsided.

On this issue, the older generation has great differences with the younger parents.

The older generation thinks that babies don't have the strength to eat salt, the food is tasteless, the baby doesn't like to eat, the appetite is small, and it is difficult to grow up.

Young parents who insist on scientific parenting believe that the baby's stomach is delicate, and eating salt too early affects physical development.

So how old is the baby to eat salt? What are the effects of eating too early and too much? How to give the baby salt reasonably? Mei Ma will talk about it today.

Eating salt is actually supplementing sodium. The main function of sodium is to control blood circulation and regulate water in the body. It also involves acid-base balance, muscle contraction, transmission of nerve information and absorption and output of nutrients. It is an indispensable nutrient for human body.

In people's subconscious, salt is eaten only if it is added. In fact, the baby began to eat salt from birth, which is hidden in breast milk and milk powder.

According to the recommended dietary minerals of China residents, the sodium intake of 0-6 month-old babies should be controlled at 170mg per day, 350mg per day for 6- 12 months, and 700mg per day for 1-4 years old.

Whether the baby of 0-6 months is fed with milk powder or breast-fed, as long as the amount of milk he drinks every day is sufficient, there is no pressure to supplement 170mg of sodium.

Most people start to add complementary food after the baby is 6 months old. At this stage, parents don't have to rush to give the baby salt, because most natural foods have their own "salty taste", enough milk+complementary food, and 350mg of sodium is more than enough.

Therefore, both WHO and China Residents' Diets (20 16 Edition) suggest that the baby should eat salt after 1 year-old, and eat salt in moderation, and the complementary food should keep its original flavor before 1 year-old. It should be noted that when adding complementary food to your baby, foods with high natural sodium content should also be added in moderation or as little as possible. You can adjust your baby's complementary food ingredients according to this form.

Many parents complain that complementary food does not add salt and has no taste, and the baby doesn't like it.

People's taste cells gradually decrease with age. Before 1 year, especially at 6- 12 months, the baby's taste cells are the most sensitive, and the baby's taste is much sharper than that of adults. The food that adults feel tastes just right will feel salty when they arrive at the baby.

Babies don't like eating, mostly because of these two reasons: First, food naturally has sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, astringent, fishy, salty and other flavors, and the sweetness in breast milk or milk powder that babies first taste will naturally be resistant after eating complementary food. Second, the hardness and thickness of complementary food are not well grasped, and the baby can't eat well.

So, don't throw the pot at salt again!

When a baby eats a heavy-flavored meal from an early age, not only the taste becomes more and more awkward, but also the harm to the child's body is irreversible, especially the height.

The main component of food salt is sodium chloride, about 50% of which exists in extracellular fluid and 40% in bone. After sodium is absorbed by the small intestine, most of it will be excreted by the kidney. But when sodium is discharged, it will also carry some calcium, so the more salt the baby eats, the more calcium will be lost. There are not many nutrients in the body that promote bone growth. How high can children go?

Besides, before the age of 3, the baby is in the first golden acceleration period of growing taller, and the momentum of growing taller is fierce. If there is too much calcium loss in the body, it will not only affect the height, but also have problems such as hunchback and muscle stiffness.

In short, "more salt will lead to loss", and a high-salt diet is not acceptable. According to the recommendation of China Nutrition Society, it is not advisable to add salt before the baby 1 year old, and the daily salt for 13-24 months should be 0- 1.5g, and the adult should not exceed 5g.

In order to avoid eating too much salt, it is best to prepare a salt-limiting spoon at home. At present, the common specifications on the market are 1g and 2g. For a family of three, it is recommended to use 2g salt-limiting spoon, so that on average, three meals a day will not exceed the standard when putting 1 small spoon of salt every time cooking.

After reading this article, when your mother-in-law or mother insists on giving salt to her baby with the gesture of "I eat more salt than you eat rice", I believe everyone knows how to go back reasonably.