Tips for hydrating your baby

If parents want to reduce the chance of their baby getting sick during the growth and development period, they should pay enough attention to and choose the right water to drink, so as to enhance the baby's gastrointestinal function and reduce the burden on the kidneys, thereby promoting the baby's physical growth and intellectual development. It is important what kind of water you drink, but how you drink it is also important.

Do not give water to children before meals

Drinking water before meals can dilute gastric juice, which is not conducive to food digestion and also affects appetite.

Drink less water before going to bed

Younger children may not be able to fully control their urination during a deep nighttime sleep. If you drink too much water before going to bed, it is easy to wet the bed. Even if you don’t wet the bed, it will affect your sleep quality.

Drink less and eat more often

The correct way to hydrate your child is to let him drink a certain amount of water regularly, and drink less and eat more meals. Don't wait until your child is thirsty before you remember to give him/her water, because when your child is thirsty, it means that the water balance in the body has been lost and the body cells have become dehydrated.

Avoid drinking too much after being thirsty

When your baby is extremely thirsty, you should let him drink a small amount of water first, rest for a while, and then drink again after his physical condition gradually stabilizes. Don't wait until the baby is extremely thirsty to drink too much water at once, because if the baby drinks too much water in a short period of time, the blood concentration in the body will drop sharply, thereby increasing the workload of the heart, and may even cause symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, and sweating.

Don't give your child too much ice water

Because drinking a lot of ice water can easily cause gastric mucosal vasoconstriction, it not only affects children's digestion, but may even cause intestinal cramps.

If a newborn baby weighs 3 kilograms, 2.4 kilograms of it is "water"; the water content in the baby's body still accounts for 70% of its body weight; for a toddler, it is 65%; and for an adult, it is only 59%. A water-loving baby needs relatively more water. Children aged 4-7 years old need 90-110 ml of water per kilogram of body weight per day. In addition to the water you get from drinking soup and eating vegetables, you still need to drink 6-7 glasses of water every day, with each glass containing about 200 ml to be enough. Drink it in multiple times and avoid drinking too much when you are extremely thirsty.