Of all the materials, glass is the healthiest.
Advantages: Of all the materials in the cup, glass is the healthiest. Glass cups do not contain organic chemicals during the firing process, so when people drink water or other beverages from glass cups, they do not have to worry about the chemicals going into their bellies. And the glass surface is smooth and easy to clean, bacteria and dirt are not easy to breed in the wall of the cup, so it is the healthiest and safest to give your baby water in a glass cup.
Disadvantages: easy to break is the biggest drawback of the glass cup, if the baby hand is not stable, it is easy to fall. And the glass material thermal conductivity, easy to make the user inadvertently scald themselves, if the water temperature is too high, may also lead to the cup burst, need to try to avoid filling hot water.
To mom's advice:
The best choice is a glass cup with a handle. And the body of the cup is not too high, easy for baby to pick up. Newly purchased glass cups boiled in salt water, on the one hand, can be sterilized and cleaned, in addition to the glass boiled in salt water is not easy to break.
I myself drink water from a glass cup, and find the water very pure and odorless. The child grows day by day, at home in which kind of cup to drink water good it 7 said that the glass cup is good, but the big glass cup is easy to break, hurt the baby, how to do? I suddenly remembered that at home in the "Ikea" to buy a small red wine glass, a little like the old generation used the kind of small white wine glass, but more beautiful. I took one out and gave it to my baby, and it was just the right size to hold in my hand. Now it's very convenient for the child to drink water, and he often goes to the water fountain by himself to drink water.
Enamel cup
Enamel cups are prone to chronic lead poisoning
Pros: enamel cups are metal inside, outside the porcelain enameled a kind of ware, not easy to break.
Disadvantages: enamelware surface porcelain is composed of sodium silicate and metal salts, which contains a lot of lead, but also contains bismuth, cadmium and antimony and other toxic metal elements. With enamelware storage or drinking coffee, easy to make enamelware in the lead precipitation. Citrus acidic beverages have the same effect as hot coffee. Therefore, using enamelware to store or drink acidic beverages will also increase the precipitation of lead in enamelware. Long-term use can cause chronic lead poisoning in humans.
To mom's advice: usually we often eat food, in addition to carbonated beverages, vinegar, coffee, with acidic citrus juices, lemon juice, tomato juice, pickles, sugar water, etc., some added sorbic acid, benzoic acid preservatives packaged food with juice, don't use enamel cups.
ZhiZhi likes to touch the cup and knock the cup, listening to the sound of the cup he will become particularly happy. But since he's so small and has no idea what he's doing, we chose an enameled cup that doesn't get knocked around and has a good sound. Zhi Zhi with his little cup, whether it is with us to touch the cup, or knock or fall to the ground, we are no longer worried.
Ceramic mugs
Brightly colored ceramic mugs can be harmful to your health
Pros: Ceramic mugs come in a variety of colors and shapes.
Disadvantages: brightly colored ceramic cups are coated with glaze on the inner wall, when the cups are filled with boiled water or acidic, alkaline drinks, these pigments in the lead and other toxic heavy metal elements will be easily dissolved in the liquid, the people drink into the liquid with chemicals, it will be harmful to the human body.
Advice for moms: It's better to give your baby a cup with a white interior than to choose a ceramic cup with a colorful interior.
In order to get Huihui to drink more water, I bought her a bear cup. I bought her a bear-shaped ceramic cup with a white interior. Huihui at first sight, in order to be able to hold the cup in the hand for a long time to play, drinking water naturally became her second choice. Oh, since the purchase of the bear cup, she can actively drink several glasses of water every day.
Stainless steel cup
Stainless steel cup beware of metal poisoning
Advantages: Stainless steel is made of iron-chromium alloy and then doped with nickel, molybdenum, titanium, manganese, and other trace elements of the metal. Because of its metal performance is good, and more resistant to rust and corrosion than other metals, made of appliances beautiful and durable.
Disadvantages: It has been proved that many metal elements such as chromium, nickel, molybdenum, cadmium, manganese, titanium and other compounds have different nature, different degree of harm to human health. If used improperly, stainless steel in the trace metal elements will also slowly accumulate in the human body, when the cumulative amount reaches a certain limit, it will jeopardize human health.
To mom's advice: can not be used to put drinks, Chinese medicine, vegetable soup, etc., otherwise it will make the toxic metal elements dissolved out.
Taking baby out to play. I will bring a stainless steel cup. It is not afraid to squeeze, not afraid of falling, light weight, and large capacity heat dissipation is also fast. In addition to drinking water, you can take it as a temporary milk warmer, or a container of noodles. It's really practical.
Paper cups
Disposable paper cups or hidden potential carcinogens
Advantages: paper cups have the advantages of lightweight, hygiene, non-absorbent, non-polluting and so on. It is more suitable for traveling, home guests to use. Not fragile, one-time use, eliminating the trouble of cleaning.
Disadvantages: disposable paper cups just look hygienic, convenient, in fact, the product qualification rate can not be judged, whether it is clean, hygienic, with the naked eye can not be identified. From the environmental point of view, or should be as little as possible to use disposable paper cups. Some paper cup manufacturers in order to make the cup looks whiter, adding a large number of fluorescent whitening agent. And it is this fluorescent substances can make the cells produce mutations, once into the human body will become a potential carcinogen; Secondly, those unqualified paper cups are generally very soft, pouring into the water is easy to deform, and some paper cups are sealed poorly, the bottom of the cup is easy to seepage, which is easy to make hot water scalding hands; What's more, when you gently touch the inside of the paper cup with your hand, you can feel that the top of the fine powder stained with the touch of the fingers will also become white, which is typical of the paper cups. This is a typical poor-quality paper cups; in addition, paper cups in the production in order to achieve the effect of waterproof, will be coated with a layer of polyethylene waterproof film on the inner wall. Polyethylene is the safest chemical substance in food processing, it is difficult to dissolve in water, non-toxic and odorless. However, if the material used is not good, or if the processing technology is not adequate, the polyethylene may oxidize to carbonyl compounds during hot melting or coating to paper cups. Carbonyl compounds are not easily volatilized at room temperature, but when hot water is poured into the paper cups, they may be volatilized, so people will smell a strange odor. Long-term intake of these organic compounds can be harmful to the human body.
Suggestions for moms: It's best to fill the cups with cold water to reduce the evaporation of harmful chemicals. In addition, if the paper cups filled with water after the odor, hold in the hands of the deformation is obvious, leakage, etc., do not use.
Zizi mom:
Giving the baby a drink of cold water or juice. I will give him a paper cup, because it can save the trouble of brushing, disinfection, and it is lightweight and easy for the baby to hold, especially convenient. However, do not use paper cups when drinking hot water, it will encounter hot water will have a taste and will become soft, unsafe.
Plastic cups
Plastic cups choose the wrong material to be careful of poisoning
Pros: Plastic cups because of its varied shape, bright colors, not afraid of the drop, you can let the baby to take their own, but also out of the house when you go with.
Disadvantages: Plastic is a polymer chemical material, often contains polypropylene ethylene or PVC PVC and other chemicals. Plastic cups filled with hot water or boiling water when these chemicals are easily decomposed out of toxic substances, adverse effects on the human body. Moreover, the internal microstructure of plastic has a lot of pores, which hides dirt, cleaning is not easy to breed bacteria.
Suggestions for Mamie: When shopping for plastic cups, be sure to choose cups made of food-grade plastic that meets national standards.
Mommy's experience: how I chose a plastic drinking cup for my baby
YiYi mom baby 2 years old
Baby is now more than 1 year old, I want him to learn to use a water cup, although I know that glass cups are better, but the baby is now in the stage of often throw things to the ground, so I chose a plastic cup for him.
Pick plastic cups is a method, buy I will smell, if you open the smell do not choose, qualified water cups do not have any foreign smell; secondly, is to pinch the water cups, qualified water cups strength is very good, the hand pinch is not easy to deformation; and then, do not buy bottles of brightly patterned water cups, because the color pattern may release harmful heavy metals, affecting the baby's health.
In fact, due to the fear of the baby breaking the glass cup cuts as well as taking into account the lightweight and other issues, many parents are now for the baby to choose a plastic water cup. Plastic in the high temperature environment will decompose, these decomposition in our daily life inside a very small, but but it is there. Plastic decomposition of toxic substances are mainly dioxin and bisphenol A, these two substances in the body will not be absorbed but will be precipitated in the human body, accumulated to a certain extent will have adverse effects on the human body. Below, we focus on how to choose a safe and healthy plastic children's water cup for the baby, choose from the toxic water cup.