What are the reasons for poor digestion in babies?

Netizens all know that if babies can absorb food better, their bodies can become healthier. However, due to the incomplete development of the gastrointestinal function of babies, they are prone to some gastrointestinal diseases if they are not careful or fed improperly in life. Indigestion is a common phenomenon. Once indigestion occurs, it will cause the child to have anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea. If you can understand the cause of the disease, you can better prevent it. Let's learn about the reasons for poor digestion in babies.

What are the reasons for poor digestion in babies?

1. The food given is not easy to digest (digestible food)

Since infants and young children have poor digestive abilities, parents should feed their children foods that they can digest and absorb and that they are willing to accept based on their age characteristics. On the one hand, parents should gradually change their children's diet from liquid to semi-liquid (such as rice soup, paste food, porridge) and solid food (such as soft rice, bread, etc.) according to the different age characteristics of their children. Infants under 3 months old have different digestive juices from adults and are less able to digest starch, so special attention needs to be paid. For infants and young children under 2 years old, the added supplementary food must be rotten, fine and soft. For example, the vegetables can be chopped, mashed and made into vegetable puree. For infants and young children aged 2-3 years old (infant food), because they already have 16-20 deciduous teeth, the food can be a little coarser. At the same time, foods such as whole melon seeds, beans, peanuts, and jelly are very dangerous for infants and young children (children's foods) as they may be swallowed into the organs, so you must be careful and grind them into powder and crush them before eating.

2. Giving Too Many New Foods

For example: Some children eat shrimps for the first time and think they taste good, so they eat a lot at once, which results in indigestion. Therefore, when parents let their infants and young children try a new food, they should let them adapt slowly. Don’t give too much at one time, increase the amount gradually to allow the child to adapt.

3. Unreasonable food combination

After the baby is 4 months old, parents need to add complementary foods other than milk to the child's diet and pay attention to giving the child a nutritionally balanced diet. A balanced diet means that the food that infants and young children eat can meet the needs of their age and physical development. Children need a variety of nutrients to grow, including protein (protein foods), fat, carbohydrates, vitamins (vitamin foods), minerals and trace elements (trace element foods), cellulose (cellulose foods) and other nutrients. Grain is the most basic food, while meat, fish, milk, eggs, vegetables (vegetable foods), fruits (fruit foods), etc. are all necessary for the body.

Therefore, parents need to carefully match their children's diet to provide a variety of foods and diversify them to avoid partial eating, picky eating, and monotonous food.

The above is an introduction to the reasons for poor digestion in infants. After understanding, we know that the baby's stomach is more sensitive. We must pay special attention when taking care of the baby. First of all, don’t feed the baby too much food at one time, especially after the baby adds complementary food, you must give the baby some easily digestible food, and there must be a gradual process. Don’t always think that the baby can absorb more nutrients if he eats more, which can easily cause a burden on the baby’s stomach.