Many parents of babies look forward to that moment when it is possible to begin to enter a feeding up. It is so interesting whether any given dish what fruit or vegetables will be included into the category of favourites and that, on the contrary, it is necessary to exclude from a diet will be pleasant to the kid.
Advantage of bananas
The advantage of the considered tropical fruit is indisputable. Bananas are very rich with potassium and magnesium, iron and fluorine. Each of the listed minerals is important for formation of muscular and bone tissues of the baby, for maintenance of favorable work of the blood circulatory systems, digestion and also for improvement of brain activity.
Bananas and vitamins are rich. In particular, the high concentration of vitamin C promotes strengthening of immunity of the child, and vitamin B has beneficial influence on skin and its derivatives: nails, hair, eyelashes.
The starch and cellulose which are contained in bananas in large numbers promote that these fruit are digested rather slowly, at the same time well saturating an organism with glucose. And it, in turn, provides the little person with energy.
Age favorable for introduction of bananas to a feeding up
Modern pediatricians advise to begin a feeding up of kids with vegetable purees. It becomes in order that the child, having tried at first sweet dishes, did not refuse later vegetables. Therefore bananas begin to enter into a diet of babies approximately on 8-9 month of life. Business is in that, to 6-month age no feeding up is required to the kid. He should be fed with breast milk or its substitutes — the mixes adapted to nurseries. Then, gradually, the baby is acquainted with vegetables and only after a while - with bananas. It is necessary to offer the baby banana in the form of puree. For this purpose carefully crush fruit the blender, the meat grinder or an ordinary fork. In the first day let's try to the child no more half of a teaspoon of puree. If there is no allergic reaction, then within a week it is possible to bring amount of banana puree to 100 g a day. Add banana puree to cottage cheese or kefir and also to various dairy squashes. It is possible to use banana as an independent dish.
Allergy to bananas
Bananas are among products which rather seldom cause allergic reactions in babies. Nevertheless there are also exceptions. Hormone the serotonin which is a part of fruit can cause allergies in some kids. It is shown in the form of rash by small red heat-spots which can be located on cheeks or on all body. In case of similar reactions before again allowing to taste to the baby banana, consult with the pediatrician.