Why is the whole body yellow after eating carrot and pumpkin porridge for more than 2 months?
This is because carrots and pumpkins are both foods rich in carotene, which is yellow. Carotene poisoning will occur when a large number of foods rich in carotene are consumed for a long time and cannot be completely converted into vitamin A in the body, and its performance is that the skin color turns yellow. So from your description, the baby is poisoned by eating too much carotene food.
Is there any harm in carotene poisoning?
Although it is said that excessive intake of nutrients will lead to poisoning, different nutrients will have different poisoning manifestations and hazards, but generally speaking, vitamins and minerals rarely cause poisoning in ordinary diet. But carotene poisoning is still relatively common. I remember when I was a child, my skin would turn yellow for a while every year when oranges were ripe, but fortunately, carotene poisoning has no other health hazards to human body and baby, but it will only make my skin turn yellow.
What should I do after discovering baby carotene poisoning?
The best and simplest way is to stop foods rich in carotene, that is, temporarily remove carrots and pumpkins from your baby's diet and replace them with white and green vegetables and fruits, especially foods with bacteria and algae, which can increase your intestinal metabolism and excretion ability, give your baby more warm water and improve your baby's yellow skin as soon as possible. Generally speaking, the effect can be seen in a week or so, and the baby's skin can be restored to its original appearance in ten days and a half months.
How to prevent the baby from being poisoned by carotene again?
In fact, as I said at the beginning, no food can provide all the nutrition for a baby over 6 months old. Even during illness, try to diversify the food on the basis of the baby's illness. As long as we avoid arranging foods rich in carotene for a long time, we can avoid carotene poisoning.
Which foods are rich in carotene?
Because carotene is yellow, yellow foods are all foods rich in carotene, or long-term consumption in large quantities will cause carotene poisoning, such as carrots, pumpkins, oranges, oranges, mangoes, pineapples and so on. In addition, green leafy vegetables are also foods rich in carotene, but fortunately, green leafy vegetables are still foods rich in chlorophyll, so how to eat green leafy vegetables will not cause carotene poisoning, and at most, baby stools will appear green.
Scientific feeding is by no means to give the baby some food continuously, but to arrange three meals a day reasonably according to the baby's age and health, so as to diversify the food and let the baby get more comprehensive nutrition.