Mothers and fathers often face a problem: the kid does not love cottage cheese, milk and kefir. What to do and how to avoid manifestations of rickets? The decision is!
Daily need of the child for calcium depends on age:
1-6 months 400 mg1-5 years 600 mg6-10 years 800-1200 mg11-18 years 1200-1500 mg
For kids from the birth and up to 1.5 years, breast milk is the best source of calcium. However, to provide with inflow of D3 vitamin, necessary for digestion of calcium, mom not in forces and therefore this vitamin is appointed in the preventive purposes. The same children who is more senior – need to eat necessary quantity of the products containing calcium (about it is slightly lower) and to happen more often in the sun. Walks in the fresh air contribute to normalization of a metabolism, besides, under the influence of sunshine in skin D2 vitamin (natural way) is synthesized.
Often children do not love cottage cheese, kefir or milk. It is considered to be that these products contain the greatest number of calcium. My daughter not an exception: if I manage to palm off on her milk or kefir, then she immediately spits out it and cleans off a uvula fingers. Both it is ridiculous, and it is terrible. Was, did not find very useful information yet! I share it with you rather.
Time to dispel the myth about fermented milk products came.
Record-holder products on calcium content it:
Poppy – 1450 gr on 100 gr a product
Cheese Parmesan – 1300 gr on 100 gr a product
Hard cheeses – 1000 gr on 100 gr a product
Sesame – 780 gr on 100 gr a product
Calcium is extremely important for a children's organism (however, as well as for the adult).
The lack of calcium can lead to development of such disease as rickets, the formation of bones proceeding with violation and insufficiency of their mineralization.
Carry to manifestations of rickets:
The slowed-down process of a teething and longer period of closing rodnichkarazmyagchatsya flat bones of a skull, the nape is flattened; in the field of parietal and frontal hillocks stratifications (""the square head" ", " "Socrates's forehead"") are formed. The facial skull (saddle nose, the high Gothic sky) is deformed. The lower extremities are bent, the basin (""a flat basin"") can be deformed. The shape of a thorax (""a chicken breast"") changes. Sleep disorders, perspiration, irritability are observed.
At deficiency of calcium in an organism, there is a delay of growth of the kid. The child can begin to be ill more often as calcium is necessary for development of the immune system of an organism. At a lack of calcium the child can test the general muscle weakness, it plays an important role in the course of reduction of muscles. And you knew that calcium is a factor of the system curtailing blood? I think that nobody needs to be convinced of importance of calcium for intensively growing child's organism.
Let's return to vitamin D. Natural sources of vitamin D are parsley and a nettle, an egg yolk and cod-liver oil, caviar, cheese, dairy products and butter. However, vitamin D content even in these products is small, and in not solar season recommend in the preventive purposes nevertheless to give to the child this vitamin (consult with the doctor; to us the pediatrician appoints drops Vigantol all the time (oily D3 solution – is easier acquired)
Special attention to the products containing calcium in a large number should be paid in the summer and during rest in tropical countries. The fact is that when the kid is in the sun, in its organism under the influence of sunshine there is more and more intensive formation of vitamin D in the natural way (during suntan finding).
In case the child is in the hot sun or receives scattered sunshine, mom or dad gave to the child recommended D3 drop, and calcium in blood not enough (there was no inflow with food), calcium begins "to be washed away" from bones and is transferred to other bodies and fabrics (arteries, heart, a liver, kidneys, lungs and td) – nothing else as ossification process.