Is it okay for babies to eat sweets often?

　　Candies, cream cakes, cookies... Many parents know that these beautiful and sweet foods can damage baby's teeth. As everyone knows, eating too much sweets is harmful to the baby’s whole body. healthy will cause adverse effects. The following is a summary of the "six sins" of sweets based on relevant domestic and foreign research, and please Pediatrics Physician analysis guidance.

　　1. Easy to get dental caries. The sucrose in sweets will promote the proliferation of bacteria in the mouth, decalcify and soften teeth, and cause dental caries. Expert tips: from baby At the beginning of the period, do not give your children sweet water or soft drinks, but drink more plain water.； Try not to eat processed snacks such as candies and cakes ； Brush your teeth in the morning and evening, rinse your mouth after meals, and clean your mouth promptly after eating sweets.

　　2. Obesity and malnutrition. Eating too much sweets can cause your baby to become obese and even cause diabetes and other metabolic diseases. disease . Sweets can also consume vitamins in the body, reduce the secretion of saliva and digestive glands, increase gastric acid, and cause indigestion. Children who eat too many sweets will become picky eaters, causing malnutrition. Expert tip: Don’t give your children sweets before or after meals, but eat some fruit between meals. But don’t eat too much fruit.

　　3. Affect mood and sleep. Too much sugar entering the blood will stimulate the child's central nervous system nerve System, causing symptoms such as irritability and lack of concentration. Eating sweets before going to bed will affect your baby's sleep and have adverse effects on growth, development and intellectual development. Expert tip: Don’t eat sweets two hours before going to bed. If your baby cries because he wants to eat, drink a small glass of milk before going to bed to help him sleep.

　　4. Affect visual development. Eating too much sugar will increase the amount of blood sugar in the baby's body, which will correspondingly reduce the osmotic pressure of body fluids, causing the lens to bulge and deform, increase the diopter, and easily lead to myopia. In addition, eating too much sugar will reduce the calcium content in the child's body and reduce the elasticity of the sclera on the outer wall of the developing eyeball. If coupled with carelessness in eye hygiene, it is easy to cause myopia in children. Expert advice: If you want your baby to have good eyesight, eat less sweets and more foods rich in B vitamins, such as egg yolks, carrots, animal livers, etc.

　　5. Lower immunity and prone to allergies. The latest research from Wilconel University in the United States points out that sweets can affect the function of white blood cells and changes in blood vessel walls, reduce the body's ability to resist disease, and make inflammation, allergies and other problems more likely to occur. Expert advice: Be sure to provide children with a diverse diet to ensure balanced nutrition. eat more tomato , mushrooms, spinach and other green vegetables can help improve immunity.

　　6. Affect taste development. If you eat too many sweets, your child's sense of taste will change and they will lose interest in bland foods. Expert tip: Let your children enjoy the natural taste of food. Don’t stimulate their taste buds too early with foods that are too sweet, too fresh or too salty. Let them learn to accept nutritious but bland foods.