The excess of salt in a diet of the kid will not lead to anything good therefore pediatricians advise pickles and tomatoes to enter into the menu as it is possible later - after 5 years. Salt and spices force kidneys of the child to work in the extreme mode, besides vitamins B the vegetables which underwent salting and pickling, absolutely not.
As food of the kid consists generally of fresh milk porridges and vegetable puree, he very vividly reacts to salty vegetables. Many mothers responsibly and carefully treat introduction to a diet of the small child of new products, especially salty. And who seeks to treat by all means him with salty delicacies, so it is grandmothers. Like, let pomusolit, he will not eat much. But, having tried out once, the kid shout tries to obtain the, having caught sight of already familiar products on a table.
Salty vegetables in the kids menu – there are more harm, than advantage
Cucumbers and tomatoes, undoubtedly, are useful to the kid. They are rich with iodine, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sulfur, zinc, iron cellulose and a set of vitamins. But as showed researches, in salty vegetables the minerals remain, and vitamins collapse almost completely. Besides salty both pickles and tomatoes abound not only with the content of salt, but also various spices which application is inadmissible in food of the kid.
Salty vegetables can cause excessive thirst and hypostases, developing of allergic diathesis and diarrhea because cucumbers have laxative effect. Pickles and tomatoes cause excessive gas generation in some children that also the habitual behavior during the day interrupts a sleep. From merits of such products it is possible to allocate only activization of salivation and increase in appetite. For this purpose it is better to offer the small child fresh-salted cucumber before a lunch, but no more than 1-2 circles which are cut off from vegetable of the average sizes.
Optimum age for introduction to a diet of pickles and tomatoes
In spite of the fact that pediatricians advise the child after a year to give gradually cucumbers and tomatoes, this recommendation extends only to fresh vegetables. Even the fresh extra care needs to be shown when feeding by tomatoes. All vegetables and fruit possessing orange and red coloring can cause allergies. When in the analysis of urine the salts of oxalates promoting formation of stones in kidneys are found in the child, tomatoes are contraindicated both in fresh, and in a salty look. If with an organism of the kid everything is all right, then after a year tomatoes are given only fresh and without thin skin. In processed and also a salty look it is possible to begin to enter cucumbers and tomatoes after 3 years, however doctors advise whenever possible to acquaint the child with these products still later – in 5–6 years. To include such seasonal vegetables as pickles and tomatoes, sauerkraut in a diet of the kid of 3 years, it is necessary only in the winter and in the most minimum quantities. The speech about marinated vegetables cannot be because vinegar renders on unripe kidneys of the kid still big loading, than salt.