Take care when using functional foods for young children

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Take care when using functional foods for young children

Need to have a doctor's prescription when taking health supplements for children; Baby is full of nutrition, not sick, it is not necessary to use.

If searching on the internet, functional foods for children will have millions of different results with all kinds of vitamins, calcium, supplementary food ... Domestic products, imported, portable, price 200,000- 500,000 VND, expensive type can be up to millions. In particular, many types are advertised to help children eat well, reduce relapse of respiratory infections ...

According to an associate professor, Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, former head of Pediatrics Department, Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi), mothers are lost in the matrix of functional foods. Functional foods were invented in Japan, but this place only allows circulation of about 100 types, while in Vietnam there are many.

Dr. Dung said that it is necessary to understand functional foods that supplement some substances such as vitamins A, D, fish oil, garlic, ginseng ... with a certain amount, to help the body develop better or prevent some diseases like vitamin D in rickets.

According to Mr. Dung, to use good functional foods is not easy. First of all, they are often more expensive than drugs. Why spend a lot of money on functional foods while being able to buy food and milk for children; When the child has the disease, the medicine is the main. The consequence is how to lose a large amount of money and how it really works and the quality is unknown.

Therefore, to use functional foods for children need a doctor's prescription. Children with chronic diseases such as cancer, long-term illness or severe malnutrition, ingesting inadequate digestive tract, or living in special circumstances should supplement functional foods. With children who are nutritious and not sick, Mr. Dung advised.

Parents also need to know what kind of food their child uses and should consult a physician to know what the child is suffering from, what disease is present, which foods should be used to respond to the child's medical condition. . Some medicine-like supplements can confuse parents. This would be disastrous if parents thought it was enough to forget about the supplements.

According to Associate Professor Dung, for example, vitamin C is indicated for use in cases of infections, poor eating, severe malnutrition, anemia (helping to increase iron absorption), cancer, people who are monogamous as lead poisoning. If taking C supplements daily for long periods of time can lead to excess vitamin C, increase calcium absorption from the intestine, high blood calcium causes kidney stones.

Calcium is also very good for the body but if excess will cause fatigue, loss of appetite, kidney stones, hypertension ..., early bone bones may be low in height.

"Functional foods do not completely replace normal foods, located on the boundary between food and medicine. Its effects are but not much, so parents should not abuse," Dung said. .

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