What happens if the milk powder is diluted?

The baby’s diet can be said to be the focus of the whole family, because diet not only affects the baby’s short-term condition, but also has a great impact on the long-term health. Every baby will inevitably need to eat milk powder to replace breast milk or as a transition, so it is important to choose milk powder suitable for the baby, but the details of making milk powder are also important. Details such as water temperature and water volume are also very critical factors for the baby.

If your baby doesn't like to drink water, you can add a little bit of sugar to the water to change the taste of the water and let the baby slowly adapt to it. You can also boil fruits or vegetables into fruit juice or vegetable juice and give it to the baby to drink. If the baby does not accept boiled water for a while, you can give him more juicy fruits, such as watermelon, pears, oranges, etc. You can also give him fruit juice (preferably homemade with fresh fruits). Mothers must not reduce the concentration of milk powder at will, as this will not provide the nutritional level and will affect the baby's growth and development.

The digestive organs of infants are very delicate, the digestive glands are underdeveloped, the secretory function is poor, and many digestive enzymes have not yet formed. Therefore, the ratio of milk powder and water during feeding is very important. If the milk powder is too dilute, it can easily lead to malnutrition in infants, and lack of weight gain is the most obvious sign of malnutrition. If the milk powder is too thick, it can easily cause indigestion. If it is too thin, the child’s nutritional supply will definitely be insufficient, which can easily lead to malnutrition. Therefore, it is recommended to prepare according to the instructions to avoid being too thick or too thin.

Milk powder must be prepared according to the instructions. If the milk powder is too diluted for a long time, the baby will be malnourished and prone to diarrhea.

Most of the baby's constipation has little to do with the consistency of the milk powder. Here are the reasons:

1. Dietary factors: Infants eat too little or have insufficient sugar in their diet, which can result in less residue after digestion and less stool volume. A diet high in protein makes stools alkaline, dry, and less frequent. Foods high in calcium can also cause constipation. For example, milk contains more calcium than human milk, so babies who are fed with cow's milk are more likely to develop constipation than those who are fed with breast milk.

2. Insufficient dietary fiber intake is because many children do not like to eat vegetables and prefer high-fat, high-cholesterol foods. Some parents who lack health knowledge do not know how to guide their children, which results in slow gastrointestinal motility, indigestion, and food residues stagnating in the intestines for too long, causing constipation.

3. Habitual factors: Constipation may occur due to irregular lifestyle or lack of regular bowel movement training, or in some children due to sudden changes in environment.

4. Children with rickets, malnutrition, and hypothyroidism have poor abdominal muscle tone or weakened intestinal motility, and constipation is more common. Anal fissure; inflammation around the anus, pain at the anus during bowel movements, children are afraid of the pain and do not defecate, leading to constipation. Children with Hirschsprung's disease experience constipation, abdominal distension, and vomiting soon after birth. When the abdominal tumor presses close to the intestinal cavity, stool cannot pass smoothly and may also cause constipation. Therefore, it is best to prepare baby's milk powder according to the requirements.