Can milk powder be eaten with rice flour?

Milk powder and rice cereal are both common complementary foods for babies. It should be said that from the analysis of nutritional value, selling price and other aspects, it is generally believed that milk powder is more helpful for children's growth. In fact, milk powder also has its shortcomings, such as drinking too much can easily cause getting a sore throat. Rice noodles are a more popular complementary food that also contains rich nutrients. So is it possible to let children eat rice cereal and milk powder at the same time in daily life? How can we add complementary foods to children in a healthy way?

Adding an appropriate amount of rice cereal to formula milk is a feeding misunderstanding. The ratios of formula milk are scientifically calculated, and the added ratio of water and milk powder is appropriate. If other things such as rice noodles are added to the liquid, it will increase the gastrointestinal burden and some nutritional proportions may also change. Try to eat rice noodles as a complementary food during the day. Rice noodles can be added to milk powder and eaten, but this kind of adding milk powder is only used as a way to prepare rice noodles, not a necessary ingredient when drinking milk. For example, if a child needs to eat 100 ml of rice noodles, I can mix it with milk powder as a complementary food. When feeding milk powder as formula milk, the amount of liquid and water should be in proportion. After adjusting, the amount of milk consumed at night will gradually decrease. The feeding regularity is not very good. The amount of feeding during the day is not enough, and the baby has to be fed again at night. Parents are also very tired, and it will create a vicious cycle.

After 4 months, as the baby grows, the baby's weight increases, and the demand for energy and various nutrients increases, but the amount of breast milk secretion cannot increase accordingly, so milk alone can no longer fully meet the baby's nutritional needs. After 4 months, most of the iron reserves in the baby's body have been used, but milk itself lacks iron, so it needs to be supplemented from food in time, otherwise the baby is prone to nutritional anemia. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually add complementary foods while continuing to use breast milk.

The time of adding food should be in accordance with the physiological characteristics of the baby. Adding complementary foods that are not suitable for digestion too early will cause digestive disorders in the baby. Adding complementary foods too late will cause nutritional deficiencies in the baby. At the same time, it is not conducive to the development of the baby's ability to eat solid food.

The varieties of food added can range from one to multiple. Try one complementary food first. After 3 days to 1 week, if the baby does not have indigestion or allergic reaction, add the second complementary food.

The amount added should be increased from a small amount to a large amount, and the amount should be gradually increased after the baby tolerates the food to avoid causing digestive dysfunction.

Food preparation should be delicate, starting with liquid food, gradually transitioning to semi-liquid food, and then to solid food, to allow the baby to have an adaptation process.

In addition, the best time to add complementary foods is before breastfeeding, when the baby is hungry and can easily accept new foods. When the weather is too hot or the baby is unwell, you should postpone adding new complementary foods to avoid causing digestive dysfunction. You should also pay attention to food hygiene to avoid diarrhea.

The first complementary food to be added should be egg yolk.

The iron stored in the newborn's body mainly comes from the mother. The iron stored in the body of a full-term newborn is very limited, and is only enough for hematopoiesis for four or five months after birth. Premature babies and multiple fetuses receive even less iron from their mothers. The younger the gestational age and the greater the number of fetuses, the less iron content in the body. Full-term newborns can add egg yolks to their staple food 3 to 4 months after birth, while premature infants and multiple fetuses can start after one month.

◆The method of adding egg yolk is as follows:

Boil the eggs, peel them, take out the yolks and grind them into powder. Start by feeding 1/8 of an egg yolk per day, then gradually increase to 1/4, 1/2, and finally the whole egg yolk. Egg yolk powder can be mixed with boiling water and given to the baby between feedings; it can also be directly mixed with rice flour. At around 6 months old, you can switch to egg yolk porridge; at 7 or 8 months old, you can eat steamed eggs (including egg white).

Tips: It is not advisable to feed egg white to babies under 6 months old

The digestive tract mucosal barrier of infants under 6 months old is not fully developed, and the protein molecules in egg white are small, which can easily enter the blood through the intestinal mucosa and cause allergic reactions such as eczema and urticaria on the skin.