A nutrition regimen lacking
moderation can make babies easily have constipation.
Constipation is disease that is popular in
young children. A less-balance regimen or a wrong conception in feeding
children of parents, such as letting children eat meat, drink milk a lot… can
lead to constipation. The followings are foods that can cause constipation and need
taking notice of.
Moms
should balance your children’s regimen to prevent them from constipation.
1. Red meat (pork and beef)
In 100g lean red meat, there are 22.7g of
protein, 2mg iron, 4.4mg zinc, 1.1mcg vitamin B12 and 0.15mg B2 that are good
for the health of babies.
When babies are in their 8th
month, moms can help them to familiarize themselves with red meat. At the
beginning, you should let them eat about half a teaspoon of pureed red meat.
Later, you can increase the amount of meat to 1-2 teaspoons of meat or more,
depend on the age of babies.
However, moms shouldn’t feed your babies
with too much meat or provide your with a meat meal because it will cause
constipation which is due to lacking fiber or will have risks of obesity due to
nutrition excess.
You
should feed babies with a moderate and sensible amount of meat.
2. Sweets like confectionery
Sweets are favorite foods of nearly all
children. Cakes, waffles, pies or candies and other sugar products have a low
level of fiber while having quite a lot of fat and sugar. Therefore, eating
those foods can increase the risk of having constipation, or in the worse
situation, having permanent constipation. Besides, children eating lots of
confectionery have much chance of tooth decay and obesity.
For that reason, you should only let
children eat a certain amount of sweets and buy children less sweet
confectionery or make the confectionery by yourselves instead.
3. Milk products
Milk products, such as milk, butter,
cheeses, and ice-cream, have a small content of fiber but a high level of
saturate fat. Constipation often happens to children who drink formula milk,
which is mainly due to making incorrect formula (too condensed). In that case,
moms should let the babies drink more water and making the milk washier than
normal.
Milk and milk products contain lots of
healthy compound for babies. Hence, moms should feed babies enough and in a
right way in order to prevent them from eating too much, which can be
counterproductive.
Milk
products have plenty of nutrients that are good for baby’s health.
4. Fast food
Fast food like sandwiches, pizzas, fried
chicken, French fries, hamburgers, snacks… is baby’s favorite food. Though fast
food is delicious, its important nutrients are considerably reduced. Moreover,
fast food has a poor amount of fiber and a great content of fat which cause
constipation, flatulence, indigestion and obesity.
5. Greasy foods
Eating regularly and too much food that is
fried will increase the risk of having gastrointestinal diseases, especially
constipation. For that reason, no matter how attracting and delicious the foods
are to babies, moms need to remember to feed babies with a moderate and
sensible meat amount to avoid affecting badly on their young digestive system.
6. Caffeine
Caffeine is contained in coffee, chocolate,
tea and soft drinks. Children might not want coffee, tea as adult do, but
chocolate and soft drinks always attract them.
Caffeine in foods that children eat or
drink makes their body to secrete more water, which lead to the risks of
constipation. In case children absorb too much caffeine that the body can’t
afford, it can lead to symptoms like hypertension, shortness of breath,
insomnia and glaucoma.
To have healthy children, moms should be
careful when letting children eat those foods mentioned, and need to create a
sensible regimen to help the digestive system of children to perform as well as
possible.
