Is it okay for breastfed children to drink water before they are half a year old?

　　Recently, UNICEF's new breastfeeding perspective gave parents a clear answer: If your child is breastfed, he or she does not need to drink water before he is six months old.； If the baby drinks milk powder, he should be fed with some water.

　　UNICEF recommends that under normal circumstances, breastfed babies do not need to add any food and drinks, including water, for 6 months. Because breast milk contains all the nutrients and trace elements such as fat, lactose, protein, vitamins, water, calcium, iron, phosphorus, etc. that your baby needs from birth to 6 months of age. The main component of breast milk is actually water, reaching 87.5%. This amount of water can generally meet all the normal needs of the baby's metabolism, and there is no need to feed additional water. If breastfed babies are allowed to drink water too early, it will be harmful to them. A study in the United States found that drinking too much water will cause baby This puts pressure on the kidneys and may cause water intoxication because the sodium in the blood is diluted. And water poisoning is a baby epilepsy The biggest cause of attacks.

　　There are also many mothers who worry that their babies will be thirsty when the weather is hot. In fact, there is no need to worry. The regulating function of breast milk can make the water content higher at this time, which can completely help the baby quench his thirst.

　　Babies who drink milk powder are best to drink some water. We all know that babies who drink milk powder are prone to "getting angry". Because milk powder does not have the unique fatty acid structure of breast milk and does not have the oligosaccharides in breast milk, it cannot produce more probiotics that are beneficial to intestinal peristalsis, which can easily lead to dry and hard stools in babies or yellow urine. The recommended amount of water for each feeding is about half of the milk volume per meal: 30ml in the first week of life ； 45ml in the second week ； 50-60 ml after 1 month ； 60-75 ml at 3 months ； 70-80 ml at 4 months ； 80-100ml at 6 months ； 100-120 ml at 8-12 months.