Do you have to add food to your baby at night?

Do not eat at night, first and the baby's age. Basically, babies over 1 year old do not need to eat in the middle of the night. If you always let him get up in the middle of the night to drink milk, it will not only increase the burden on the stomach, but will also develop the bad habits of the baby, affect sleep, and hinder growth and development.

Mr. Zhang, a Beijing reader, asked: Recently, some experts on Weibo have seen that it is best not to give children food during the period from 11pm to 5am. Does this statement make sense?

Professor Wang Xuemei, chief physician of Pediatrics, Peking University Third Hospital, answered: Do you want to eat at night? First, it is related to your baby's age. Basically, babies over 1 year old do not need to eat in the middle of the night. If you always let him get up in the middle of the night to drink milk, it will not only increase the burden on the stomach, but will also develop the bad habits of the baby, affect sleep, and hinder growth and development.

0-3 months baby, as well as premature infants, need to eat at night. Because they usually eat once every 3 to 4 hours, otherwise it will lead to hypoglycemia. After half a year, some babies can already insist on not eating up overnight.

In addition to looking at the age of the month, adding no meals at night is related to the usual feeding situation. Some baby food supplement is very good, meat, eggs, milk and other adequate intake, baby body heat to maintain a long time, metabolic time is long, do not need to eat at night. However, for those babies who merely added vegetable puree or rice porridge, due to insufficient nutrient intake, more food needs to be eaten in the middle of the night. It is suggested that parents should pay attention to nutritionally balanced feeding at ordinary times and food arrangements should be as diverse as possible. If you are worried about your baby's lack of food, you can add a diet and eat digestible foods for two hours before going to bed so that you can stop eating your baby in the middle of the night.

Health Ingredients

Health foods contain a certain amount of functional health ingredients, which can regulate the functions of the human body, have specific effects, and are suitable for specific groups of people. General food does not have specific functions, and there is no specific range of people to eat. Health food cannot be directly used to treat diseases. It is a human body mechanism regulator and nutritional supplement.

The human body needs many nutrients, such as water, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber,etc. Nutritional products are generally rich in these nutrients and suitable for everyone. Its nutritional value of health ingredients is very high and it is suitable for everyone to drink. While health food is food with specific health functions and only suitable for specific groups of people, and its nutritional value is not necessarily high. Therefore, the various nutrients that the human body needs are still obtained from three meals a day. Of course, health care products are better in some aspects. Health care products can obtain more fixed health functions than nutrition products. The minerals of the human body are not balanced, so health care products have a greater advantage in some aspects.

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