Proper baby food in the summer months

    

   




Remember comparing "summer is a small life"? And it's true: the weather changes, well-being, mood and, of course, food. If we, adults, all more or less clear, but summer infant's diet requires a serious approach. Let's decide how to feed your child in the summer.

What to feed an infant in the summer?

• If your baby is less than six months and you feed him breast, it is a complete diet for your baby, rich in all essential vitamins and minerals. But in especially hot days, give your child non-carbonated mineral water, is better a specialized nursery. It is important that it was room temperature, otherwise it may cause the baby stomach problems. Moreover, in this period, especially watch your diet. If you decide to go in the summer with a child on vacation in a warm country, you have to abandon the overly exotic food (superstroy pizza, dried grasshoppers and Scorpions, etc.), because feeding lactating mothers must be balanced and correct, with obviously predictable reaction to the foods consumed.
• In the summer if you plan to take the child from the breast, then this is the perfect season for a similar problem: fresh and healthy vegetables and fruits at hand, easy to purchase. Again don't forget about the ready baby cereals and purees, which also will now be the baby's diet. By the way, for a child at this age is very useful pureed peaches and apricots, strawberries and raspberries, especially if they are cooked just before eating. Parents, it is important to take precautions: give these products to be very careful, watch the reaction of the baby on them, and isn't allergic.
• If you are breast-feeding a baby, and he already eats mixtures and complementary foods, choose those that are sold in stores. If you cook at home in the heat, not the fact that you will be able to comply with all rules of hygiene, and therefore the probability of bacterial contamination, for which the highest temperature favorable for reproduction, as a result, it can lead to food poisoning of the child. If you do decide to cook, then cook the vegetables on a steam bath, without salt, but with a small amount of olive oil, then beat with a mixer or skip several times through a meat grinder.
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What to feed in the summer kids older than six months?
If your baby is older than six months, in addition to the traditional nutrition of the baby at this age, parents need to take care of the way to quench your thirst baby:

• Besides clean water, it is possible to give fruit and vegetable juices, which not only weaken the sense of thirst, but also contain many useful substances. In addition to the purchase of baby juices, you can buy the baby juices, prepared with his own hands, the main thing — do not add sugar.
• By the way, quench your thirst and maybe a yogurt, so the child still feels full. Importantly, the product was not too cold: take it out of the fridge about 20 minutes before use.

What to feed children in the summer? Useful tips for parents
That's what is recommended to feed children in the summer:

• Minimize, and best of all, refrain from carbonated drinks in the diet of the child. Soda has a negative impact on gastric mucosa and are generally poorly absorbed, especially in the heat. By the way, children under one year of age carbonated beverages is not recommended to drink.
• In order not to disrupt the digestive system of the child and especially not to cause abdominal pain, parents should not give children cold drinks (preferably 20-30 minutes before drinking to get the drink from the fridge).
• In hot weather, when often the child has no appetite, can I buy him an ice cream cone (ice cream valid from 1 year, but it is better to give the older children), which will replace their lunch or snack, if you add a fruit, waffles and chocolate. Moderation in this treat.
• Be sure to give the children vegetables and fruits, both raw and cooked (preferably to cook them on a steam bath as meat and fish).
• If we talk about animal protein, in summer, you should choose the meat easy, for example, poultry meat (it contains less fat and it is easier to digest).
• In the hot period, the number of dieticians recommends to avoid salt in the diet, in order not to increase thirst.

 



Source: www.gastronom.ru