What happens if your baby takes too much calcium?

There are many people suffering from calcium deficiency in China at present. This is because many children are born with weak constitutions, and they do not get enough calcium from breast milk and milk powder, which can cause sweating. Excessive sweating can cause certain harm, so parents will give their children a lot of calcium supplements, but if they are not careful, it may lead to excessive calcium intake. What should we do in this situation?

harm

But given the current situation in China, what needs to be emphasized more is the harm caused by excessive calcium. Excess calcium causes greater harm.

"Calcium supplementation" has become a slogan, as if every Chinese person is calcium deficient, which leads to excessive calcium supplementation. In fact, if everyone is calcium deficient, calcium deficiency is the norm, or the calcium concentration standard is set too high; this is basically caused by doctors and scholars cheering for calcium-producing companies; calcium is widely present in nature and abundant in food. It is the fifth most abundant element on earth. As long as you have a normal diet and are exposed to normal sunlight, you will generally not be calcium deficient.

Due to competitive inhibition in the human body, excess calcium will seriously affect the bioavailability of iron, zinc, magnesium, and phosphorus, and can cause urinary tract stones, hypercalcemia, alkali poisoning and other hazards in pregnant women.

Supplement method

Choosing the right calcium supplement method and product can effectively avoid excessive calcium supplementation. The best way to supplement calcium is through food and calcium supplement products. In your baby's daily diet, appropriately increasing the intake of milk, bone soup, and eggs can supplement a certain amount of calcium. However, given that calcium is difficult to absorb, taking calcium supplements appropriately can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

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Harmful but not beneficial

Why are many people short and have osteoporosis but have little effect despite taking large amounts of calcium supplements? With the development of society, people pay more and more attention to their physical health and begin to take a lot of health products to supplement the nutrients needed by the human body. For example, we take a lot of health supplements to supplement calcium, but why are there more and more people suffering from bone diseases? We hear advertisements for various calcium supplements every day, and in our minds, we think that people who are short or have bone diseases need calcium supplements. However, the actual effect is far from our expectations. Even blindly taking large amounts of calcium supplements can cause calcium deposition and even calcification of organs. This is because many people only know one side of the story and not the other, which actually means that the medicine is not suitable for the disease.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the foundation of one's innate constitution. "When a person is born, essence is formed first," and the kidney stores essence. Therefore, the kidneys are formed when a person is born, and the kidneys are the foundation of the innate constitution. It contains Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang (another name for the Yin and Yang of the kidneys), is the home of water and fire, is the innate foundation, and the root of life. In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys, bladder, bone marrow, brain, hair, ears, and two yin organs form a system.

The kidneys store essence: first, they store the innate reproductive "essence", which is responsible for human reproduction; second, they store the acquired "essence" of the five internal organs, which comes from the essence of food. The kidneys store essence and function with qi, which is related to human growth and development. The strength or weakness of kidney qi is directly related to a person's growth, development, reproduction, and even the entire process of aging.

Throughout the life process, it is the changes in the rise and fall of the essence and qi in the kidneys that lead to different physiological states of birth, growth, maturity, aging and death. From childhood, kidney essence gradually becomes abundant. When people reach young adulthood, the kidney essence becomes further abundant and even reaches its peak (24 years old for men and 21 years old for women), and their bodies become strong and their muscles and bones are robust. But when people get old, their kidney essence declines, their body gradually ages, their muscles and bones become inflexible, their teeth become loose and their hair falls out, and they appear old and frail.

The kidneys control bones and growth and development. Therefore, problems such as short stature and osteoporosis cannot be solved by simply supplementing calcium. For example, if a production workshop today produces clothing and a large amount of raw materials, such as cloth and needles and threads, are delivered, but the workers in the production workshop are a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people, then it will definitely not be able to produce good products. This in turn causes a backlog of raw materials. Therefore, it is useless to just supplement calcium for bone nourishment. This is like just transporting a large amount of raw materials, but the kidney energy is insufficient and cannot be processed. How can you strengthen your bones and body? Therefore, the key to nourishing bones and increasing height for modern people lies in nourishing the kidneys as the main focus and supplementing calcium as the supplement.