Babies who often drink glucose should be aware of these dangers!

Now some parents will find that their babies are very resistant to water, because newborns are used to the taste of breast milk, and food must have the taste of sugar in order to be acceptable. If there is no sugar, they will resist it. In order to get their children to drink water, many parents will put glucose in the water for their children. It is okay to supplement children with a small amount of glucose, which can quickly relieve constipation and long-term bowel movements. If children drink excessive amounts of glucose, they will become dependent on it. In addition, the high sugar content in the body can easily lead to gastrointestinal diseases, and severe cases may cause diarrhea. Therefore, babies who drink too much glucose water will enter a period of anorexia. Occasionally, glucose water can be supplemented when the baby's body needs it. Only correct supplementation can prevent the baby's body from having problems.

1 Do newborns need to drink glucose?

Not necessary under normal circumstances! The human body does not normally consume glucose, and the body will not lack glucose, so it does not need to be supplemented. The excretion of meconium with glucose mentioned in the summary is not qualitative. Even if the newborn baby does not drink glucose, meconium will be slowly excreted. However, when children are sick and refuse to eat, their physical condition is extremely weak. In order to ensure the basal metabolic calorie needs of children, they should be fed glucose for a short period of time. However, it is best to buy glucose specially for babies, and they should eat less. Sometimes glucose is infused intravenously. This is the reason. However, it is believed that glucose has high nutritional value, and feeding it too much and for too long while ignoring the supply of other foods can affect children's appetite. In addition, since protein and other nutrients cannot be supplemented, it can lead to growth retardation, severe recurrent infections, malnutrition, etc. It can also cause transient diabetes due to increased blood sugar, resulting in symptoms of thirst, polydipsia and polyuria. Warm reminder: Although newborns do not need to drink glucose unless there are special circumstances, they can drink it. Drinking a small amount will not cause much harm!

2 The harm of giving your baby glucose water frequently

1. Early entry into anorexia period: Sweetness can easily satisfy the appetite, making the baby unwilling to eat the milk for meals, which can easily lead to early entry into anorexia period. Moreover, the nutritional content of glucose water is far less than that of normal milk, which may cause nutritional problems in the long run.

2. Easy to damage the surface of teeth: After drinking, the sugar water will stay in the mouth for too long, and it is easy to ferment with bacteria to produce acidified saliva, causing the baby's fragile deciduous teeth to be damaged prematurely (caries).

3. Develop a bad habit of eating sweets: Once you get used to eating sweets when you are young, it will be difficult to quit in the future, and long-term consumption of sweets can easily lead to obesity.

4. Easy to become a picky eater: Doing this is a bit like "allowing the baby to eat snacks outside of regular meals". The baby will feel that there are things that taste better than milk in regular meals. If he does not get them, he will cry and make a fuss until he is satisfied, thus developing a bad habit of being a picky eater. Although medical research in recent years has found that feeding a crying baby sugar water can help him fall asleep and reduce his crying, this should only be done occasionally and should not become a habit. So apart from this purpose, please do not feed your baby with glucose water casually or intentionally.

3 Glucose Function Indications

1. To supplement heat energy and body fluids, used for insufficient food intake or large amounts of body fluid loss caused by various reasons (such as vomiting, diarrhea, severe blood loss from severe injuries, etc.), total intravenous nutrition, and starvation ketosis.

2. Hypoglycemia.

3. Hyperkalemia. When used in combination with insulin, it can promote the transfer of potassium into cells.

4. Hypertonic solutions are used as tissue dehydrating agents. They can be used for cerebral edema, pulmonary edema and to reduce intraocular pressure. They are often used in combination with dehydrating drugs such as mannitol.

5. Prepare peritoneal dialysis fluid.