Whether it is possible for children there are mushrooms? It is not recommended to feed small children with this product. Another matter – the cultivated mushrooms which are grown up in special conditions but also them it is not recommended to give to children up to 3 years.
With arrival of fall many fans of silent hunting direct to the forest, involving in this occupation and small children, not without justification believing that clean air and long walk outdoors in the pine forest are useful to a children's organism. After all family sits down at a table to regale on fried chanterelles, slippery jacks, aspen mushrooms and other mushrooms, and too attracts to it small children, but is it useful for children there are mushrooms how to bring together them?
Structure of mushrooms
Mushrooms not a so useless product as consider some. These inhabitants of forest clearings contain a large amount of protein, cellulose and vitamins, in particular, of vitamin D, PP, C, A and vitamins of group B. In addition, they are rich also with minerals – potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, sodium, magnesium and others. However all above-mentioned valuable nutritious elements are acquired by a human body not completely because of existence in this product of the substance reminding chitin on structure. It is known that the armor of crayfish and a cover of the majority of insects consists of chitin therefore even digestive system of the adult digests this substance with great difficulty, not to mention a stomach of the small child.
Whether it is possible for children there are mushrooms? The digestive tract of children continues to be formed up to growing of an organism and in the child's GIT aged up to 7 years there is yet no necessary number of the enzymes necessary for processing of chitin and protein with which mushrooms are rich. For this reason it is not recommended to give mushrooms to children who did not reach age of 7 years. The most harmless that can happen to the child who ate mushrooms – him "will carry by", that is the diarrhea, and the most terrible – poisoning will open, up to a lethal outcome.
Why mushrooms are dangerous
Parents who nevertheless are adjusted to feed small children with mushrooms can reason it with the fact that in old times our ancestors ate mushrooms and gave them to children and nothing. Yes, earlier and was, but today all changed. Deterioration in an ecological situation, expansion of the cities and transport networks led to the fact that mushrooms grow not in forests and on glades now, and directly near roads, the industrial enterprises and the plants near which they also are brought together by unlucky citizens that then to eat. And the structure of mushrooms is similar to a sponge which absorbs from the atmosphere all toxic and radioactive materials and also heavy metals which can cause serious poisoning and indigestion. Whether it is possible for children there are mushrooms? Today the cultivated mushrooms which are grown up in specially created conditions are considered as the safest. Honey agarics, oyster mushrooms, champignons and others concern them. They are better acquired by a GIT, but again, are not recommended for the use by the small children who did not reach age of 3 years. After that it is possible to give to the kid mushrooms little by little, constantly monitoring his reaction and at the first symptoms of poisoning urgently to see a doctor.