Small children usually love juice. But you should not enter it into a diet of the kid too early. Juice is an allergenic product and it can become the cause of diathesis and irritation of a mucous membrane of a stomach and intestines. It is fraught with digestion violation, an abdominal distension and gripes. Was considered earlier that juice can begin to be given to the baby at the age of four months. Now pediatricians hold other opinion. It is recommended to enter juice into a diet not earlier than eight months.
Gradualness and sequence
It is necessary to begin with the clarified juice without pulp. If the organism of the kid reacts normally, then closer by a year it is possible to try slowly juice with pulp. Vegetable fibers with pulp stimulate work of intestines in juice, and it can become the cause of a diarrhea at the use at earlier age.
It is necessary to enter juice from different fruit serially. Only after it will become clear that the kid well transfers any type of juice, it is possible to begin to give it following. If some of juice causes allergic reaction, this product needs to be cancelled at once.
Juice of green apple is traditionally offered to the first. It is rich with iron and extremely seldom causes undesirable reactions. Then juice from pear, an apricot, a peach and plum is gradually entered. It is impossible to give to the kid juice from strawberry, citrus and exotic fruit. Grape juice needs to be entered with care too. It is rich with sugar and can cause unpleasant feelings in digestive tract.
How many and in what look
Juice can be prepared from fresh fruit or to use special juice for baby food which is on sale in shop. On packing it is usually specified from what age they can be used. Fresh juice can become the reason of uneasy behavior of the child called by the abdominal distension raised by gas generation or gripes. Therefore they should be parted with boiled water. Usually on one part of juice add one part of water. The special children's juice bought in shop should not be diluted with water since they are already brought to the necessary concentration. The child has to use juice in the divorced state up to 2 — 3 years. Since 2-year age the amount of the added water needs to be reduced gradually, smoothly bringing concentration of juice to 100%. The kid can begin to drink undiluted juice only after 3 years. It is undesirable to enter the concentrated juice of industrial production into a feeding up of the kid up to 3 years. In case the kid uses such juice, then they surely should be parted with boiled water in a proportion 1:1. In process of growing it is necessary to reduce gradually concentration of water in juice. Also you should not forget that the acid which is contained in juice can have the destroying effect on weak enamel of children's teeth. Therefore it is better to drink undiluted juice from a tubule. Let your children drink tasty and correct juice and will be healthy.