Baby Nutrition Care

This article was written by referring to Yahoo Answers.

Many parents are concerning about their babies. A question has been brought up in a discussion :

How come your not supposed to give a baby salt, but you could give them things such as cheese, which is you look at the ingredients salt is an added ingredient, and its loaded with it? some insight please thanks a million!

Here are the comments and suggestions :

1. Personally I would not give my baby cheese, at least not large amounts. Baby’s drink breast milk or formula till a year! I always wait till a year old to start things like milk, cheese and treats like ice cream. I would think it might make their stomach upset along with causing some constipation for baby. Constipation for baby is bad too. Nothing is worse then a baby who cant go number 2 other then maybe colic. They get cranky , fussy and it just plain hurts! As far as salt I believe it has more to do with introducing food without added flavoring. That way they will begin to like foods for what they taste like and eat things like green beans. Otherwise a baby would possibly begin to only like food with additives such as salt, pepper, and sugar. They even could develop a preference and decide they do not want to eat the vegetables and babies need the vitamins for growing and having strong bones! Hope that helps and good luck!
2. I just talked to my pediatric specialist about this earlier today since my son is 7 months old (premie). And he explained that a babies stomach is unable to digest Milk or derivatives of milk, and can cause bleeding otherwise know as an occult, not sure if that’s how you spell it. He also told me that in his 44 yrs of work that it is ok after they are 8 months and 1 week (he has never seen a child past that age suffer from one) to then give them milk products but not milk alone. This allows the digestive system to get used to the enzymes and breakdown the food. Milk alone shouldn’t be given until the baby is 12 months or older. Hope this helps!!
3. Good point! The thing is with cheese is a little goes a long way, and it’s a dairy product that is okay for under 12 months – but yes cheese has a lot of salt, but a whole lot less then canned vegetables or chips.
4. They need it for the calcium.that is toddlers not babies.you give a baby cheese and you might constipate them.their system isn’t able to process it yet.not to mention the choke factor.
5. I thought babies weren’t supposed to have any dairy products until they are at least 1 year old because the stomach can’t handle digesting it…

According to the news, the incident of China’s Milk Scandal has affected thousand and thousand of infants and toddlers in China, Hong Kong and Macau. Four deaths have been blamed on the toxic milk powder, which causes kidney stones and agonizing complications. More and more infants and toddlers have been hospitalized after the incident was disclosed.

I was understood that one of the milk suppliers of Sanlu, the China’s biggest maker of infant milk powder, has added nitrogen-rich melamine to watered-down milk to fool quality checks, which often use nitrogen levels to measure the amount of protein in milk. This nitrogen-rich melamine has caused kidney stones and agonizing complications to the infants and toddlers after drinking the milk.

Besides, some of the dairy products manufactured in China are also contaminated with melamine. Countries like Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan have banned or recalled Chinese dairy products.

This incident has reminded us the importance of breastfeeding. This will rule out the possibility of letting our babies to drink contaminated milk. Additionally, there are other benefits of breastfeeding your baby.