Which mixture to choose?
Of course, the best nutrition for the newly born man will be mom’s milk. But life makes its own adjustments and not always a young mother manages to give her child the most valuable – mother’s milk, and then you have to resort to artificial mixtures. And if breastfeeding is natural, then with artificial feeding a young mother will face a problem such as the choice of a mixture for a child.
How to choose the right mixture for a child?
Today, store shelves are full of colorful packages of children’s mixtures. The choice is huge – they sell both our domestic mixtures and foreign.
When choosing a mixture, you must first focus on the age of the child. Each age group is intended for its own food. The first 2-3 weeks it is preferable to give the baby fresh mixtures that will not cause metabolic disorders and regulations . After 3 weeks, a combination of dairy and fresh mixtures is possible . The smaller the child, the more adapted the mixture should be. Very often, Taurin (a sulfur -containing amino acid) is introduced into the adapted mixture). It is this amino acid that is indispensable for premature babies, especially in the first weeks and months of life. With the help of it, a neural network is formed and the brain of the baby, it contributes to the absorption of fats and t. D.
All children’s mixtures are divided into fully or partially adapted.
The degree of adaptation of the mixture is determined by its maximum approximation in composition to mother’s milk. Moreover, adaptation is carried out in relation to all components of the mixture: carbohydrate, fat, protein, mineral and vitamin.
All children’s mixtures are divided into fresh (intended for newborns) and dairy (acidophilic).
The mixtures are also divided into powder and liquid.
Liquid mixtures, although they are more expensive, and their shelf life is small, but with the help of them, troubles are significantly reduced due to night feeding and feeding where there are no conditions for the preparation of the mixture. Moving milk substitutes are divided into standard and specialized. Standard mixtures are adapted cow milk -based mixtures. Specialized – on a soy basis, based on goat milk. It should be remembered that the mixtures on soybean can be given to the child since 3 months. And appoint them yourself, without consulting with a pediatrician cannot.
It is impossible to make the right choice of the mixture, based only on knowledge of the types of mixtures. Before buying the mixture, you should pay attention to its composition: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, iron.
If a child has a normal hemoglobin, you can not use mixtures where iron content is increased. It should be remembered that giving without special indications, a child’s mixture with a high iron content is a risk of dysbiosis, the risk of sprinkling and changing stools.
The main carbohydrate of women’s milk is lactose. An ideal mixture is a mixture where carbohydrates are represented by lactose. But you can find substitutes for breast milk, in which, in addition to lactose, glucose includes. If the mixture includes sucrose, then such mixtures are desirable to avoid.
Fats contained in the mixture provide the calorie content of the product and the presence of fat -soluble vitamins.
In any case, the question of which mixture to choose for an artificial child should decide the pediatrician observing your baby. After all, the choice of a replacement of breast milk depends not only on the age of the baby, but also on the state of health of the baby. It is the doctor who is aware of which components that are part of a particular mixture will be able to help the child cope with a particular disease.
