There is no other one-way ticket in the world that can make people more anxious than this kind of parenting.
Previously, Buddhism was justified: it is good that the child grows up happily.
When you look at other children a few centimeters higher than your own, you begin to wonder: is not the nutritional supplement is still not in place?
So “children’s money is the best”, in the mother and baby store embodied more and more fully.
The shopkeepers diligently come up to chat and sell all kinds of “high-sounding” products, making new Parents and grandparents so excited that they can’t wait to take out their cell phones to check out. The first thing you need to do is to get your phone out and check out.
Once Home, calm down, is regret regret plus regret – most of the efficacy of the goods, simply does not match its price.
When you enter the door of a mom-and-pop store, there are minefields everywhere.
The first way: “children’s Food“
Children’s soy sauce, children’s salt, children’s cheese, children’s meat loaf ……
No matter what it is, as long as the word “children” is added in front, the price immediately rises.
In the business advertising, children’s food is healthier, more nutritious, and worth the higher price.
In reality, the majority of children’s food is just a name.
Take the most common children’s soy sauce, often claiming “reduced salt”, “organic”, “organic” and “organic”. “organic”, “rich in nutrients “, suitable for babies to eat.
But a closer look at the nutrition factsheet shows that many children’s soy sauces are not low in sodium and are almost indistinguishable from regular soy sauce.
What’s more, even for soy sauce with very low sodium content, people will unconsciously pour more when cooking to ensure the taste, and will not reduce their sodium intake as a result.
As for the so-called supplementary nutrition, it is nonsense.
The role of soy sauce is only for flavoring, and its nutritional value is extremely limited.
It is better to eat more meat, eggs, and vegetables than to get nutrition from soy sauce because the amount of soy sauce used each day is very low.
For infants under the age of 1, they do not need additional condiments such as salt and soy sauce.
If you listen to the propaganda of “children’s soy sauce” and get used to seasoning through soy sauce, it is easy for children to consume too much sodium.
There are also some children’s milk, children’s cheese, children’s meat loaf, looks very nutritious, and children like to eat.
However, in order to cater to the taste of the baby, the business will add extra salt or sugar in the product, but is not conducive to the health of children.
90% of the “children’s food”, the eyes aimed at perhaps not the baby’s health, but the parents’ wallets.
The second way: trace elements testing
A seemingly sophisticated instrument, a finger clip, a staff in a white coat with a cotton swab in the child’s oral cavity wall rub, with a blood collection needle in the child’s index finger a zap ……
In just a few minutes, the paper report that can measure the child’s trace elements will come out.
Of course, the more perfunctory so-called “testing methods” are not excluded.
As magical as it sounds, this is a popular item in mom and pop stores everywhere – trace element testing.
The magic is that the test results will always show that your child has a little problem, either calcium deficiency, or iron deficiency, zinc deficiency.
Some tests can even “detect” what artistic talent your child has.
The moms and dads on this side of the room have not had Time to panic, but the thoughtful shoppers on the other side of the room have already prepared the solution: “This is a calcium supplement, give your child a calcium supplement.
“This is a calcium supplement, buy some for your child, grow taller! “
“Children do not like to eat, it is time to supplement zinc! “
The mother and father do not know under, a large packet on the purchase of a bunch of.
But the so-called trace elements test in the mother and baby store, from beginning to end is a scam.
As early as 2013, the former National Health and Family Planning Commission General Office has called a halt to this project.
At present, not only is there no quick and easy way to test trace elements, there is not even a clear standard.
The blood and hair tests commonly used in hospitals and medical checkups are not scientific enough, not to mention the finger clips. The lack of this and that shown in the test results is just to arouse parents’ anxiety so as to sell more products.
In general, for infants and children, only the right amount of vitamin D supplementation is needed.
After 4 months of age, you can start preventive iron supplementation, and all other products that are blown out of proportion are mostly an IQ tax.
The best nutritional supplement for your baby is to drink good milk and have a balanced diet.
Set three: toddler car
Only people who have personally brought their children know: children to the age of learning to walk, how to call people broken.
A careless fall, bumps and bruises make it exponentially more difficult to bring up a child.
Many people therefore put the purchase of a walker on the agenda: it can help children learn to walk, save heart and effort.
But is a walker really that good?
The walker slides up quickly, and for babies who have not yet learned to walk and whose muscle strength is not perfect, it is impossible to control its movement.
It is possible to bump into table corners, tumble down steps, and hit dangerous objects.
As early as the 1990s, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called for a ban on the sale of toddlers’ walkers.
In 2011, China also released its Technical Guidelines for Childhood Fall Interventions, which do not recommend the use of infant walkers.
The Guidelines state that infant walker use is an important fall risk factor and was a significant cause of infant fall deaths in developed countries.
Also, walkers do not help children learn to walk at all.
Babies in walkers are often on their tiptoes, relying only on toe pressure to drive the wheels to slide.
In this way, the baby’s leg strength and balance are not exercised, and once they are out of the walker, they still cannot walk independently.
Tiptoeing often will also affect your baby’s future walking posture.
Roll over, sit, crawl, and stand …… Children have their own rules for growth.
If you just want to save things, throw them into the walker, beware of the losses.
4 Routine four: improve immunity
It is the wish of every parent that their baby be less sick.
But for children, colds, coughs, diarrhea is always inevitable, and it is difficult to find out the specific cause.
The universal answer “poor immunity” was born.
Over the years, there has been a proliferation of products under the banner of immune system improvement.
From the earliest probiotics, protein powder, to colostrum, lactoferrin …… market every new product, can bring a consumer trend.
These outrageously expensive products, in addition to bluffing no other use.
For example, once very popular probiotics, claiming to regulate the intestinal flora, care for the health of the baby.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the baby’s intestinal flora is gradually established through diet and other means, the blind introduction of additional probiotics may affect their own normal flora.
Another example is colostrum, which claims to contain immunoglobulins to improve immunity, but there is no evidence that it is beneficial to humans.
On the contrary, it has been shown to have potential risks such as allergies and increased kidney burden.
In 2012, China has banned the addition of colostrum to infant formula. But to this day, the marketing scam of “colostrum boosts immunity” still exists.
The immune system has its own logic, and just because a child gets sick a lot doesn’t mean they have a poor immune system.
Fever, cough, runny nose, these common “cold” symptoms are precisely the performance of the immune system in the role of eliminating pathogens and strengthening the immune capacity.
Parents just need to remember one thing: no food has the ability to boost immunity quickly.
Instead of hoping for supplements, let your child eat well, sleep well, exercise more, and plan for immunity.
First-time parents are inevitably a little vain.
They want to provide the best for their children, but due to the limitations of their knowledge, they are often in the dark when it comes to complex mother and baby products.
Some mom-and-pop stores have seized on this anxiety of parents, using the name of “for the good of the child” to make a big push.
Parents do not understand, it is easy to fall into these traps.
The thing about shopping at mom-and-pop stores is that they are “fast, accurate and hard” and have clear goals.
Buy and go, don’t easily believe the scare of the shopping guide.
Know enough information, be well prepared, know what your baby really needs, in order to stay awake and sensible in front of the fancy sales pitch.
Give the article a point in look, parenting is an exam and I hope everyone passes.
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