To give your child supplements is not love but harm

The original title: to give children to eat supplements, not love is harmful
every parent wants their children to grow up healthy and strong, so from the possible to eat complementary food, many parents want to do everything possible to give their children a variety of high nutrition, high protein food. Some parents also give their children supplements in the hope that he will grow taller and develop better. Here to remind parents: supplements are different, take caution, use the wrong counterproductive. There are a wide variety of child supplements on the market, and while it cannot be denied that some of them do help children with malnutrition or stunting, they do not work well for the vast majority of healthy children, and some of the following supplements are especially prudent.
1. Tonics. Many tonic drugs and foods contain hormones such as growth hormone or sex hormone (esodiol or testosterone) that can cause precociousness in children if overdosed. For children in growth and development, be careful to use.
2. Lysine. Some parents hope to improve their children's memory by supplementing lysine, and some functional foods specifically add lysine. In fact, taking lysine in large doses not only does the body not absorb, but also increases the burden on children's excretion organs.
3. Vitamins. Some parents in the case of neither clinical signs, nor medical advice, only by their own cognition, let the child take calcium tablets every day, or a variety of vitamins, zinc glucose acid tablets, etc. , can only say that the motivation is good, the consequences are worrying. Vitamins are trace organic substances necessary for the body to maintain normal physiological function, which play an important role in human growth, metabolism and development, but excessive intake can cause adverse reactions. Take fish liver oil (containing vitamin A, D) as an example, if children take more than 6 grams at a time, it may cause acute vitamin A poisoning, headache, nausea, vomiting, irritability, drowsiness and other symptoms; In fact, the body's daily vitamin requirements from the daily diet can be fully supplied, as long as the child does not pick on food, to ensure a rich variety of food intake can be. If a child is deficient in a vitamin and needs to be replenished, follow your doctor's advice.
adult supplements such as ginseng. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginseng is suitable to make up for the false, the use of the yin and false fire will be counterproductive. Clinically, children who take ginseng or ginseng preparations often experience excitement and irritability insomnia. Children are mostly yang body, and the spleen and stomach is weak, after taking cooked land, turtle plate, armor and other traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, prone to bloating, tongue moss, loss of appetite, diarrhea or constipation and other conditions. Although a gum can be used to treat children over 5 years of age blood virtual symptoms, but only allowed to use, can not be used as a monotacic. Children are mostly spleen, adults and the elderly are mostly kidneys, so children can not take adult supplements.
last reminder that parents should not make up for it and turn love into harm. In fact, the child's daily growth and development needs of various nutrients can be satisfied through diet, generally do not need large or long-term supplements. Adequate fresh fruits and vegetables, persistent physical exercise and good psychophysiological health are the basis for children's healthy growth and development. If you really feel that your child needs additional supplements, you should also consult a professional doctor to provide scientific supplements under the guidance of a doctor. (Hu Kai, Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, University of Southeast China, affiliated with
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