When Jing’s mother once gave a popular science lecture to mothers, a mother once asked Jing’s mother a question. This question left a deep impression on Jing’s mother. It can also be said that many mothers*** Same problem.

Mom said: The things sold outside are not very healthy. For example, the rice cereal sold outside is made from other people’s rice and is not as good as the rice grown at home. The rice grown at home is rarely sprayed with pesticides. After the child is 6 months old, I want to grind some rice at home and add some yams for the child to eat. However, my eldest brother’s child has never bought rice noodles. He always said that he only eats rice paste ground by himself. When he gets older, he starts to eat porridge again. When the child was 7 months old, he went to see a childcare provider and found that the child's hemoglobin was only 101. The doctor said it was mild anemia.

Isn’t it okay to eat the rice at home? At that time, I told me that my own rice was very good, but the rice noodles outside were not only rice, but also had iron added, so the rice outside was fortified with iron.

Children can supplement iron by eating it and prevent iron deficiency anemia in children after 6 months.

Causes of iron deficiency anemia in children

1. Mother’s anemia during pregnancy

Children absorb a large amount of iron from the mother’s body through the umbilical cord from around 36 weeks. If the mother herself is anemic at this time, the amount of iron that the child can absorb is limited, so if the mother is anemic, the baby may be more likely to be anemic.

2. Premature birth

Premature babies do not have enough time to absorb iron from the mother’s body.

3. The iron is used up and not replenished in time

After most babies reach 5 months old, the iron brought from the mother’s body has been digested. At this time, we need additional iron supplements. Therefore, some doctors will suggest that children can add complementary foods at 4-6 months of age, mainly to consider iron supplementation.

How to prevent iron deficiency anemia

1. Add complementary foods in a scientific and timely manner

When adding complementary foods, you must add iron-containing rice cereal, not just rice cereal, And it needs to contain iron. It is generally recommended to buy some packaged products in maternal and child stores that are rich in iron. Adding iron to rice cereal will make it easier for children to digest and absorb.

2. Take iron supplements

If the child's anemia is severe, the child care doctor can prescribe some iron supplements for the child to take. However, these iron supplements may have harmful effects on the child. There is some irritation to the gastrointestinal tract, so it must be taken after meals.

3. Pork liver puree

You can also find some pork liver puree in maternal and child stores or online to supplement iron for children.

4. Fresh animal liver

Give your child about 25 to 30 grams of animal liver every other day. If you feel that pig liver is unsafe, you can give your child chicken liver or duck liver. Liver, there is no problem with these.

5. Eat more red meat

After 8 months of age, children should not just drink porridge, but also eat some lean meat. Red meats such as beef can supplement iron for the child. .

6. Supplement vitamin C to promote iron absorption

Children should also eat some apples, bananas and some green vegetables to promote iron absorption.

Topic: Has your baby ever had anemia?

The 8-month-old baby drinks gruel every day. I have to say that this mother is really caring. I would like to share my baby’s complementary food arrangement in August, hoping to help you:

Feeding time of breast milk/milk powder and complementary food in August

At the age of 8 months, breast milk or milk powder is still the main food , in addition, adhere to 2 to 3 meals a day of complementary food. My baby's daily eating schedule is as follows:

Diversified complementary foods and increased food types

If an 8-month-old baby drinks gruel every day, anemia is conceivable. Therefore, in order to ensure that the baby needs a lot of nutrients as he grows, the daily diet should include four major categories:

What should I do if my baby doesn’t like to eat complementary foods?

This problem is a worry for many parents. Every time they eat complementary food, the baby will be very resistant, push it away with both hands, or bite it and spit it out as a toy. At this time, you need to observe whether the baby is really If you are hungry, if you are not hungry, the baby will still be in a state of excitement and joy, then feed the baby complementary food a little later;

If the baby has not eaten, then eat less and more. Before taking complementary food, try not to feed breast milk first. Be sure to ensure that after the baby has eaten complementary food, you can eat less, and then supplement with breast milk or milk powder.

Is there any particular way to prepare complementary foods?

The food for 8-month-old babies can be upgraded from puree to small particles or softer solid food to train the baby's chewing ability. The principle of making food is to make it so that the baby can eat it. Full and easy to digest.

Therefore, the food can be as diverse as possible. Parents can follow the complementary food tutorials of complementary food experts, or they can change home-cooked dishes to food suitable for babies. In addition, do not add salt, sugar, MSG and any condiments, because children under one year old do not know the taste of salt.

I really have something to say about this issue.

Now the eleventh baby is just eight months and twelve days old. We have been adding complementary foods to him since he was six months and a few days old. I believe everyone knows that the baby’s first bite of complementary food is the most important. It is best to make high-iron rice noodles by adding a small spoonful of rice noodles to warm water of about 45 degrees Celsius. After eating for three to five days, gradually add more rice noodles, from thin to thick, and the weight should also gradually increase.

My eleven-year-old baby was fine eating rice cereal for the first three or four days. He could finish the amount I brewed every time. However, after about a week, he didn’t like to eat it very much. After a few mouthfuls, he turned his head away and hummed, but when I put the small bowl in front of him, he stretched his head forward again and opened his mouth. His grandma asked if he wanted to drink?

There was nothing I could do. In order to make him eat more, I added some water to make it dilute and gave him a bowl to drink from. He actually drank it all, but the result was all over his face and clothes. , there is rice paste on my hands and on the dining chair... My heart...

Thinking about it, I still ate a lot, and I am no longer like a person wearing diapers, so I still give it. He washes his face and hands and then wipes the dining chairs.

I have been eating pure rice cereal for about 12 or 3 days, and I heard from other mothers in the community that I can’t eat it all the time, and that I need to add some vegetables. When I asked, they said it would be better to start with spinach, which is rich in iron. There are many other vitamins as well.

Buy it for him when you get home. I didn’t know how to do it at first. I checked online and found out that it boils water for one minute to remove oxalic acid to prevent it from affecting the baby’s absorption of calcium. Then pour it into a wall-breaking machine to mix. As for fruit and vegetable juice, the spinach juice can be used directly to make rice noodles. However, the spinach juice I made for the first time was too thick to make rice noodles. It had to be soaked in warm water. Later, I added some spinach juice when making it. Pour warm water into it, and then the spinach juice can be directly mixed with rice noodles. The 11-year-old baby still likes to eat rice cereal soaked in spinach juice and can eat it every time.

When adding iron-supplementing foods to Eleven’s complementary food, the first thing I added was spinach. I believe you can also add this to your baby. It is really good for iron supplementation and can be used. Supplement other vitamins to promote the baby's physical development.

As a new mother, I accompany my baby in the learning process every day. I hope my answer can help you.

Drinking only gruel in August is prone to malnutrition, especially iron deficiency. About half of anemia may be caused by iron deficiency, so it is recommended to add iron-rich or iron-fortified complementary foods and enrich the types of complementary foods.

Iron-rich foods include animal liver and offal, livestock and poultry meat, whole animal blood, fresh or dried fish shells and other aquatic products. The heme iron in these foods is not affected by other dietary factors. , the absorption rate is relatively high, about 20% or more

In addition, iron-fortified foods such as high-iron rice noodles are recommended for the first complementary food, which are not prone to allergies.

Although spinach and other green leafy plants are rich in iron, their absorption rate is not high, so they are not the best foods to supplement iron.

If your baby is already moderately or severely anemic, please follow your doctor’s advice to supplement iron.

China’s 7 to 24-month-old feeding guidelines for infants and young children put forward 6 recommendations:

(1) Continue breastfeeding and add complementary foods from the age of 6 months;

(3) Promote compliant feeding and encourage but not force eating;

(4) No condiments are added to complementary foods, and the intake of sugar and salt is minimized;

(5) Pay attention to food hygiene and food safety;

(6) Regularly monitor physical indicators and pursue healthy growth .

It also emphasized that the principle of adding complementary foods is: add only one new food at a time, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to thick, step by step.

If an eight-month-old baby develops anemia after drinking gruel every day, food that can supplement iron and blood and is suitable for eight-month-old babies should be added to the diet.

An eight-month-old baby drinks gruel every day and develops anemia. How should the baby’s diet be arranged?

I suggest arranging three meals of complementary food every day, synchronized with the adults' meal time. If the baby is hungry at other times, he can drink breast milk or milk powder; the complementary food can be added with iron-containing ingredients, such as animal liver, blood products, and lean milk. Meat and eggs, as well as red dates, purple rice, black rice, red beans, etc. can also be added. These ingredients are suitable for adding one meat and two vegetables a day or eating them separately. You can also eat meat once every other day. When there is no meat, add red dates, black rice and other health-preserving ingredients.

For example, animal liver, we usually eat pork liver. Go to the pig slaughterhouse to buy fresh pork liver, cut it into small pieces, and soak it in water for 30 minutes. Fish it out, put it in a pot, put it in boiling water, boil it for one minute, take it out, wash it with water, cut it into cubes, put it in the pot, add some sesame oil, cook it slowly over low heat, take it out for about 15 minutes. Put it in a bowl, crush it with a spoon, and then feed it to your baby. Note: Pork liver cannot be left overnight. One pig liver is very large and cannot be eaten by the baby. The mother can cut and cook it all first, then divide it into a small portion and cook and crush it for the baby to eat. The remaining pig liver can be eaten by the baby. You can dry it, then mash it in a food processor, and save the pork liver powder in that bottle. Next time your baby wants to eat it, scoop some out with a spoon, add some boiling water and stir it into a paste, then you can feed it to your baby. Yes, very convenient.

Secondly, eight-month-old babies have just grown one or two teeth at most, and their chewing and esophageal digestion abilities are not very good. It is best to feed them mainly milk, with a daily milk volume of at least 500ml to 800ml. Etc. The specific situation depends on the amount of complementary food the baby eats. Some babies eat a lot of complementary food, and the daily milk volume can be about 500ml. For babies who don’t eat much complementary food, the milk volume can be 800ml. Moreover, mothers can also increase the amount of complementary food through their daily diet. By eating foods with higher iron content, the mother can supplement iron, and the baby can also receive iron indirectly. If the baby is fed milk powder, the mother needs to choose milk powder with higher iron content.

Finally, generally speaking, the calcium and iron elements stored in the mother's body before delivery are only enough for the baby to drink breast milk until the baby is five or six months old. If the baby's physical development needs cannot be met, the mother will need to supplement the baby with an appropriate amount of calcium and iron. In this regard, our National Health Commission will issue infant and young child complementary food nutrition packs to the baby every month. This nutrition includes how much A variety of micronutrients, including folic acid, calcium, iron, zinc, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B12 and vitamin D, etc., plus the mother's usual feeding according to the baby's growth trajectory, the baby Mothers no longer have to worry about their baby lacking certain microelements.

Wish your baby healthy growth!

Based on the nutritional needs of infants at each age of growth and development, children should be given complementary foods around 6 months after birth, mainly because children will have physiological anemia during this period, that is, red blood cells are still being destroyed. Breast milk does not contain enough iron, so it is prone to microcytic hypochromic anemia, that is, iron deficiency anemia. At this time, complementary foods are mainly iron-containing rice noodles and animal liver.

1. Physiological anemia period:

In the 0-1 year period after birth, due to the destruction of a large number of red blood cells in the body, the baby's bone marrow hematopoietic function is relatively low, that is, the production of red blood cells Less than destroyed red blood cells, causing physiological anemia.

The hemoglobin (HB) of a newborn can be as high as 160g/L at birth. The destruction of some old red blood cells begins in one week, and the destruction usually stops by 8 weeks, so the HB drops to 90-120g 2-3 months after birth. /L, and HB rebounded to 11-12g/L 6 months later.

2. Insufficient iron content in breast milk:

If the mother has iron deficiency anemia, and neglects to supplement iron during breastfeeding, and is partial or picky about eating liver, meat and cereals, Therefore, it is easy to be iron deficient.

3. Failure to add complementary foods on time:

Some parents blindly believe that breast milk has good nutritional content and simply breastfeed until the baby does not want to eat it, or as the title states, although the baby Add complementary food, but it is too simple, just gruel. In this way, the child's iron intake is seriously insufficient, and he will naturally become anemic.

8-month-old babies have just had 2-4 incisors, so they are not yet capable of chewing. We recommend feeding mainly milk (breast milk or formula milk) to ensure a milk volume of 600-800ml. .

On this basis, complementary foods should be added appropriately. During this period, the baby can have one meal and one fruit a day. Rice must be mainly ground rotten rice, including porridge, minced meat, minced vegetables, eggs, fish paste, tofu, and iron-containing rice noodles.

We recommend that children add complementary food between two feedings when the baby is hungry.

In fact, there are no standard quantitative regulations in a strict sense, because the specific situation of each child is different, and there are individual differences in the child's stomach capacity, digestion and absorption function, and nutritional status.

Therefore, we parents still need to be careful and patient in feeding, and we must continue to record the baby's weight and height growth curve in order to determine whether the baby's development meets the requirements.

Below we simply recommend one or two complementary foods suitable for 8-month-old babies, which can be considered as a starting point:

1. Banana and pumpkin porridge:

The main ingredients are rice + Pumpkin + banana.

First wash the rice and fill it with appropriate amount of water. Peel and cut the pumpkin into pieces and cook it in the rice cooker until it becomes sticky and soft. Peel the banana and crush it into puree. Stir it with the porridge. edible.

2. Broccoli Chicken Rice Lake:

The main ingredients are chicken breast + broccoli + rice noodles

We can combine the cooked muscles and Use a food supplement machine to mash the blanched broccoli into powder, mix it thoroughly with an appropriate amount of rice flour, and feed it according to your baby's food intake.

Why do you only give your children gruel every day? At least you must drink breast milk or milk powder!

Eight-month-old babies must have breast milk or milk powder

Ensure that the child has 500 to 600 ml of breast milk or milk powder every day, because the baby's diet at this period is still based on Milk-based.

In addition, children who are eight months old can already roll over, sit and crawl. As the amount of exercise increases, their nutritional needs also increase. In addition, the antibodies brought by the child from the mother are basically exhausted at this time, so rich nutrients are needed to increase the child's resistance.

At this time, you can add some animal offal, such as liver, heart and some red meat, to supplement the child's hemoglobin and prevent anemia.

Liver can be made into pork liver powder by yourself in a food supplement pot, and you can add some when you drink porridge or eat noodles. For red meat, make it into minced meat or finger sausage, which not only trains your child's grasping ability but is also nutritious.

When cooking porridge, don’t just cook white porridge. Make some chicken soup, rib soup, or fish soup. Using these to cook porridge for children is much more nutritious than white porridge!

There are about 300 mg of iron reserves in the body of full-term newborns, which can usually prevent iron deficiency within 4 months after birth. Premature infants and low birth weight infants have relatively insufficient iron stores and are more likely to suffer from iron deficiency during infancy.

The main dietary source of iron is animal food. An eight-month-old baby who only drinks porridge every day and lacks meat food can easily lead to iron deficiency anemia.

Babies need to supplement iron from diet after 4 months, such as iron-fortified formula milk powder, rice noodles, liver paste, etc. The appropriate intake (AI) of iron for infants over 6 months old in my country is 10 mg/day, and for infants aged 1 to 3 years old is 12 mg/day. Infants and infants aged 6 months to three years old are prone to iron deficiency anemia, especially Infants and toddlers on a plant-based diet.

Birth to two years old is a critical period for brain development. Iron deficiency can cause delayed brain development or structural damage in infants and young children. Iron deficiency can also increase infants and young children's sensitivity to infection and impair immune function. and decreased bactericidal ability of phagocytes. Therefore, infants and young children should consume animal liver, lean meat and other foods with high iron content in their diet to prevent and control the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia.

Babies like to drink porridge. You can add various lean meat purees, liver purees (mainly pork liver), fish purees and other animal products that are rich in iron and have high iron absorption and utilization rates into the porridge. food. Although egg yolk is rich in iron, its iron absorption and utilization rate is limited due to the interference of high phosphorus protein in the yolk, so egg yolk is not an ideal food for iron supplementation.

The above are some suggestions on preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in infants and young children. I hope it can help you.

Hello, I am "Jingma Shuo" and I am happy to answer your questions.

Why are babies prone to anemia after six months?

Before answering this question, let’s first talk about why babies after six months are prone to anemia?

Generally, anemia in babies is "iron deficiency anemia".

First of all, parents should be aware that babies need additional iron supplements from five to six months old, because babies are usually exclusively breastfed before six months, and the iron content in breast milk is very small. The iron stored in the mother's body can only last until a few months after birth.

Therefore, when adding complementary foods at six months, you should start with iron-rich foods. Generally, iron-fortified rice noodles are first added (iron supplements are also easy to digest), and then other types of foods are gradually added, such as various Seed meat paste, pork liver paste, etc. can help to supplement iron for babies and prevent anemia.

If the baby has anemia, how should it be corrected?

Now the baby has developed anemia because he drinks porridge every day. It is recommended to "check to see the degree of anemia" and then correct the anemia for the baby according to the actual situation.

1. If it is mild anemia, it can be improved by eating complementary foods.

Then you can appropriately add iron-rich foods to your baby. Of course, for eight-month-old babies, you can also try to add various meats. The specific dietary arrangements are as follows:

1. Iron-fortified rice noodles: The rice noodles purchased from the market are specially processed and fortified with iron. They have good iron supplement effects and are easy to absorb. They can be given to babies every day. 1-2 times;

2. Various red meats: such as pork, beef, mutton, fish and shrimp, etc., can be cooked directly and made into puree for the baby to eat; they can also be made into floss and mixed with Eat it with rice, porridge, or cut it into small pieces and make porridge;

3. Animal liver: Animal liver is also a food rich in iron, so mothers can also add liver to their babies several times a week. Puree can be eaten directly or as liver puree porridge.

4. Egg yolk: Many mothers know that egg yolk also contains high iron content. However, because egg yolk contains ferric iron, the absorption rate is not high. In addition, egg yolk is prone to allergies. Therefore, parents should eat egg yolk appropriately according to the actual situation of the baby. Can.

2. If it is moderate to severe anemia, follow the doctor's advice and take iron supplements as soon as possible to improve it.

At this time, the anemia cannot be corrected by eating complementary foods, and it is necessary to take iron supplements. And you need to check again at intervals to see how effective the iron supplement is.

Iron deficiency is a common nutritional problem in children, especially infants and young children, who grow and develop rapidly and have a large demand for iron. However, their dietary structure is relatively simple, and iron supply is prone to exceed demand. After 4 to 6 months, the mother's iron reserves have been exhausted, and the dairy-based diet cannot meet the baby's demand for iron. If iron-rich complementary foods are not added in time, the baby will easily become iron deficient.

Iron deficiency can cause anemia, loss of appetite, indigestion, low immunity, reduced activity, and slow growth and development in babies. Especially in infancy, long-term iron deficiency without correction will cause irreversible damage to the nervous system, leading to reduced memory and cognitive function and mental retardation in babies.

Therefore, more attention should be paid to supplementary prevention in the baby's daily diet:

1. Breastfed infants should continue to breastfeed.

2. Supply sufficient protein. Foods rich in high-quality protein include dairy, eggs, lean meats, fish, shrimp, etc.

3. Eat more iron-rich foods: such as animal liver, lean meat, fish, poultry, animal blood, mushrooms, kelp, green leafy vegetables, etc.

4. Avoid factors that interfere with absorption: such as excessive intake of spinach, amaranth, water spinach, etc. (blanch them in hot water before frying), drinking tea, etc.

5. Eat foods rich in vitamin C: vegetables, tomatoes, bitter melon, rapeseed, cabbage, carrots, cherries, kiwis, strawberries, oranges, pomegranates, etc.

6. Correct bad eating habits: Reasonably arrange the number of meals and the content of each meal. Those with poor appetite and limited appetite can eat small amounts and frequent meals.

Since iron deficiency is so harmful to the baby's body, the most important thing is to control feeding.

1. Breastfeed as much as possible and encourage breastfeeding for at least 4 months, preferably until 6 to 9 months. Although the iron content in breast milk is less than that in formula milk, the absorption rate of iron in breast milk is high (50%), which is five times that of cow's milk (10%), so try to breastfeed as much as possible. Mothers should eat more iron-rich foods during late pregnancy and lactation. If they find themselves anemic, they should seek medical treatment in time, otherwise it will directly affect the baby's iron intake.

2. Timely addition of iron-fortified complementary foods. Timely addition of iron-rich complementary foods is crucial to preventing iron deficiency in infants. Whether breast-fed or formula-fed babies, after 4 to 6 months, they need to gradually add iron-rich foods such as rice cereal, meat puree, animal liver puree, animal blood puree, fish puree, etc.