Lacking calcium in a long time can make
children have rickets and grow slowly.
Calcium plays essential role to the body.
When babies lack calcium in a long time, it will make them have rickets and
grow slowly. If babies absorb enough calcium, babies will have strong and
healthy skeleton when they grow up.
Calcium
plays essential role to body of babies.
Therefore, providing and adding calcium are
the first priority thing and is carried out in the first stage of life of
little babies.
Role of calcium for little children
Babies cry, they don’t have good sleep,
have a lot of sweats, their hair loses with form of towel hoop after nape, have
a lot of sweat in sleeping (night sweat), fontanel is slow to skin over, head
is flat, thorax is protruding, have bandy feet. These are all of the sequels of
serious rickets.
To children that are older, they have
expressions of tiredness, anorexia, weakness, feeling dizzy, having a lot of
sweat and not having good sleep.
According to advice of experts about
pediatrics, the necessary amount of calcium that needs to provide children 0-6
months old, is 300mg, 7-12 months old is 400mg. To children that are 0-6 months
old, if they suck mother’s milk completely, they won’t be provided with enough
outside calcium because the amount of calcium in mother’s milk is only
sufficient to adapt children’s demand.
When babies grow older, the demand about
calcium is also higher to serve for the development of bone. Mothers can
provide milk that is rich in calcium, finished products from milk and other
foods such as soya and sea foods for babies. In necessary cases, babies need to
be provided with calcium, but mothers need to pay attention to the maximum
amount. If babies absorb enough calcium, they will have strong and healthy
skeleton when they grow up.
On the contrary, if babies lack calcium in
a long time, they will have rickets and develop slowly. It depends on the level
of lacking calcium to children: serious or unserious, children can have
different expressions. If children lack calcium normally, they jump and burst
into loud wails, have body rigidity, their face turns red and purple, crying
lasts in many hours or even during night when they sleep.
If
babies lack calcium in a long time, they will have rickets and develop slowly.
What do mothers need to do?
To prevent lacking calcium and improve
resistance, children need to be sucked mother’s milk early and sucking will
last 18-24 months; in the first 4-6 months, babies need to suck mother’s milk
completely.
To
prevent lacking calcium and improve resistance, children need to be sucked
mother’s milk early and sucking will last 18-24 months.
To provide enough calcium for little
babies, parents should give scientific diet for babies. Milk and finished
products from milk (cheese, yoghurt…); they are source of foods containing
calcium most. Whole milk and fresh milk have the similar content of calcium.
Moreover, kinds of vegetable that have dark green, sea foods (shrimp, crab,
oyster), fish, bean… are sources that provide natural calcium for the body.
Besides diet, parents should pay attention
to let children sunbathe, exercise under sunlight regularly to improve
absorption of vitamin D and calcium.
How to provide calcium with correct way?
Mothers should only use medicines that add
calcium when doctors fill a prescription and give advice. In time from 0-12
months old, mothers need to eat enough and diversification of foods, eat more
meals and drink 200ml formula milk before going to bed because mother’s milk
secretes a lot at night and in this period, babies continue sucking mothers’
milk.
Time for providing calcium is very
important. If you provide babies with calcium in daytime, folic acid and tannic
acid that are in foods with form of vegetation a lot will combine with calcium
ion to inform insoluble calcium salt, excrete outside directly, through waste
that the body doesn’t take full advantage of anything.
Foods with form of animal contain a lot of
fat that combine with calcium ion and they will also be excreted outside.
Therefore providing calcium at the same time with meals will make absorbing
ability reduce.
Moreover, you shouldn’t provide calcium
when babies feel hungry because calcium that is provided through mouth needs to
have acid in stomach to make resolution of calcium ion to help body absorb.
Acid in stomach only secretes when foods are chewed in mouth. Providing calcium
when babies feel hungry is a thing that is useless and wasteful. You should
provide babies with calcium before they go to bed to ensure the highest ability
of absorption.
Good calcium products need to gain the following criteria:
·
High content: At presents, many kinds of
functional medicine or foods that provide calcium are sold in the market. Most
of them are inorganic calcium having low content while body needs to be provided
with 500mg calcium a day.
·
The high rate of absorption: if calcium has low
rate of absorption, it cannot adapt body’s demand.
·
Not stimulate stomach and bowel: There are some
products that have serious alkaline or have acid feature that can stimulate
stomach and bowel.
·
Provide other nutrients for body such as vitamin
D, Lysyn, amine acid, vitamin, micronutrients that can help the body absorb
calcium easier.
·
It is convenience for using and delicious.
·
Not causing constipation: At present, there are
many products that provide calcium; however, they easily cause constipation for
babies.
