How to supplement calcium for 4-month-old baby

The human body contains more than 60 elements, including 11 essential quantitative elements and more than ten trace elements. The lack of any one of these elements will have an impact on the body and may even cause disease. The human body generally absorbs the various necessary elements through food. If you know which element the body lacks, you can just eat food that contains slightly more of that element.

1. What should I do if my four-month-old baby is severely calcium deficient?

1. Choose baby-specific medicines for your baby. When choosing calcium supplements, you should pay attention to the brand reputation. It is very important to choose calcium supplements with good reputation and quality assurance.

2. To ensure that calcium supplementation is done in a way that is conducive to the baby's digestion and absorption, because if the baby cannot absorb and digest calcium in time, he will also be in a state of calcium deficiency.

3. While supplementing calcium, you should also pay attention to regulating your baby's spleen and stomach, because the baby's spleen and stomach are not mature enough at this stage, and their ability to absorb nutrients such as calcium is very limited, which can easily lead to the loss of supplemented calcium. Therefore, while supplementing calcium, it is also very important to regulate the spleen and stomach.

4. While supplementing calcium, we should also pay attention to providing our baby with adequate nutrition, achieving a balanced diet, preparing different foods for the baby, and increasing the baby's interest in various nutritious foods.

5. In daily life, taking your baby out to the sun more often is also beneficial to the baby's absorption of calcium.

6. Dietary supplements are the best way to supplement calcium. Babies aged four months can already start eating complementary foods. If the baby's calcium deficiency is not very serious, you can add dried shrimps, beans, fish and other foods to the normal diet. You can also grind some high-calcium nuts into powder and dissolve it in warm water to feed your baby.

When babies are 4 to 6 months old, they start to eat complementary foods and their daily milk intake gradually decreases. For infants aged 5 to 11 months, the calcium intake increases to 400 mg per day, so calcium supplements should be started from this time.

The best way to supplement calcium for babies is through diet. The more calcium you contain, the better it is. If the body cannot absorb it, no matter how much calcium you contain, it will be useless. First of all, we must ensure the dual absorption of calcium and vitamin D. Vitamin D can be obtained from animal foods such as sardines, sharks, animal livers, egg yolks, and cod liver oil preparations.

Calcium supplements should be taken between meals. At the same time, avoid putting calcium supplements in foods such as milk, rice soup or porridge. The phytic acid in food will affect calcium absorption, leading to a decrease in calcium absorption in the body. For mild anemia, your baby can take lean meat porridge, animal liver, dates and other food supplements.

However, excessive calcium supplementation is not only a waste, but also has adverse effects on the baby.

Four-month-old babies need appropriate calcium supplements if they are deficient in calcium, and mothers need to master the methods of calcium supplementation. Be careful not to take too much supplements, so as not to over-supplement and cause certain effects on the baby.