Whether children can eat ice cream depends on their age.

Babies under one year old should completely avoid cold drinks, and their use is not recommended under two years old.

Older children have certain physical resistance and can satisfy their thirst for cold drinks, but the following points should be noted.

1. Do not eat cold drinks before or after meals.

Eating before meals can easily affect appetite, while eating after meals can affect digestion, especially between meals.

Avoid eating a lot of cold drinks when you are sweating after exercise to avoid abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, etc.

Due to irritation to the gastrointestinal tract and pharynx.

It is best to wait half an hour before eating.

2. Eat in moderation.

It is advisable to eat at most one ice cream a day; the intake of cold drinks should be about 100ml at a time.

Li Haiying particularly emphasized that the hotter the weather, the more necessary it is to drink hot drinks to cool down and allow sweat to fully evaporate and detoxify.

3. Don’t eat cold drinks too quickly.

Children lack a certain amount of self-control and like to devour cold drinks, which will stimulate internal vasoconstriction, weaken the digestive function and sterilization ability of the gastrointestinal tract, and easily induce gastroenteritis, cholecystitis and even hepatitis.

Slow down and savor it.

It is best to choose big brands of pure cream ice cream and drinks instead of milk-flavored ones to reduce the intake of trans fatty acids.