The more sugar, the better.
It is the common sense of many parents that unsweetened milk is not easy to digest. Sugar is added to increase the calories supplied by carbohydrates, but it must be quantified. Generally, 5 ~ 8 grams of sugar is added per 100 ml of milk. If too much sugar is added, it will do harm to the growth and development of babies. Too much sugar enters the baby's body, which will retain water in the body, making the muscles and subcutaneous tissues soft and weak. This kind of baby looks fat, but its body resistance is very poor, which is called "mud paste type" in medicine. Too much sugar stored in the body will also become a risk factor for some diseases, such as dental caries, myopia and arteriosclerosis.
What sugar should I add to the milk? Sucrose is preferred. Sucrose enters the digestive tract, is decomposed by digestive juice, becomes glucose, and is absorbed by the human body. Some parents buy glucose for their children, which is unnecessary. Glucose is low in sweetness, and it is easy to exceed the prescribed range when used too much, and children will refuse to eat it because it is not sweet.
There is also a question of when to add sugar. Some parents heat sugar and milk together, so that lysine in milk will react with sugar at high temperature (80℃ ~ 100℃) to generate harmful substance glycosyl lysine. This substance will not only be absorbed by the human body, but also be harmful to the body, especially to children. Therefore, boiled milk should be dried to a warm temperature (40℃ ~ 50℃) before sugar is dissolved in milk.
The thicker the milk, the better.
Some parents think that the thicker the milk, the more nutrition their children get, which is unscientific.
The so-called concentrated milk refers to adding more milk powder and less water to milk, so that the concentration of milk exceeds the normal proportion standard. Some parents are afraid that fresh milk is too weak, so they add milk powder to it. In fact, the intensity of milk for infants should be directly proportional to their age, and its concentration should be gradually increased according to their age. Even for newborns within 1 month, the proportion of mixed water in milk should be gradually reduced according to the digestion situation. If babies often eat thick milk, it will cause diarrhea, constipation, loss of appetite and even refuse to eat. Over time, the weight will not increase, but also cause acute hemorrhagic enteritis. This is because the organs of infants and young children are delicate and cannot bear heavy burdens and pressures. Milk powder is too thick, or mixed with fresh milk, the concentration of nutrients increases, exceeding the digestion and absorption limit of infant gastrointestinal tract. Not only can it not be digested, but it may also damage the digestive organs. Therefore, if you feed your baby with milk, you should decide how much water to add according to the quality of the milk and the age of the child.
Take medicine with milk, kill two birds with one stone.
Some people think that it is definitely good to take medicine with nutritious things, but this is extremely wrong. Milk can obviously affect the absorption rate of drugs in human body, so that the concentration of drugs in blood is significantly lower than that of non-milk users at the same time. Taking medicine with milk is also easy to make the medicine show a covering film, so that mineral ions such as calcium and magnesium in milk react with the medicine to generate water-insoluble substances, which not only reduces the curative effect, but also may cause harm to the body. Therefore, it is best not to drink milk 1 ~ 2 hours before and after taking the medicine.
Chocolate milk
Some parents think that since milk is a high-protein food and chocolate is an energy food, it must be beneficial to eat both at the same time. That was not the case. Adding chocolate to liquid milk will make calcium in milk react with oxalic acid in chocolate to produce "calcium oxalate". In this way, the originally nutritious calcium has become a substance harmful to human body, leading to calcium deficiency, diarrhea, delayed development of children, dry hair, easy fracture and increased incidence of urinary calculi.
Feed the baby yogurt.
Yogurt is a healthy drink to help digestion. Some parents often feed their babies yogurt. Antibiotics produced by lactic acid bacteria in yogurt can inhibit the growth of many pathogenic bacteria, but it also destroys the growth conditions of normal flora beneficial to human body and affects the normal digestive function, especially for infants and premature infants with gastroenteritis. If you feed them yogurt, they may cause vomiting and gangrenous enteritis.
Add orange juice or lemon juice to milk to add flavor.
In order to make children like milk, it seems a good idea to add some orange juice or lemon juice to milk. But in fact, orange juice and lemon are fruits with high fruit acid. When fruit acid meets protein in milk, protein will be denatured, thus reducing the nutritional value of protein.
Use condensed milk instead of milk.
Condensed milk is a kind of dairy products, which is made by evaporating fresh milk to 2/5 of its original capacity and then adding 40% sucrose to cans. Some people are influenced by "concentrated essence" and give their children condensed milk instead of milk. This is obviously wrong. Condensed milk is too sweet and must be diluted with 5 ~ 8 times of water. But when the sweetness meets the requirements, the concentration of protein and fat is often reduced by half compared with fresh milk. Infants and young children, if fed, will certainly not gain weight, look pale and get sick easily. If water is added to condensed milk to make the concentration of protein and fat close to that of fresh milk, the sugar content will be high. Feeding such "milk" to children is also easy to cause diarrhea in children. In addition, if children are used to sweetness, it will bring difficulties to add complementary food in the future.
Add rice soup and porridge to milk.
Some parents think that this can make the nutrition complementary. In fact, this practice is very unscientific. Milk contains vitamin A, while rice soup and porridge are mainly starch, which contains lipoxygenase, which will destroy vitamin A. Children, especially infants and young children, will be stunted and sickly if they do not take enough vitamin A. Therefore, even if you supplement nutrition, you should eat the two separately.
Milk must be boiled
Usually, milk disinfection does not require high temperature, 70℃ for 3 minutes and 60℃ for 6 minutes. If boiled and the temperature reaches 100℃, the lactose in milk will be coked and caramel will induce cancer. Secondly, after boiling, calcium in milk will precipitate with phosphoric acid, thus reducing the nutritional value of milk.
Bottled milk in the sun can increase vitamin D.
Some parents learned from advertisements that vitamin D is needed for calcium supplementation, and more sunshine is a good way to get vitamin D, so they put bottled milk in the sun according to the prescription. In fact, this is not worth the loss. Milk may get some vitamin D, but it will lose vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and vitamin C. Because these three nutrients will be decomposed in the sun, so that some or all of them will be lost. Moreover, lactose will ferment in the sun, which will spoil milk.