Pregnancy and childbirth, pregnancy calendar, birth of the child, development of the child, health of children.

Water - the major component of an organism. At its presence there are all processes of a metabolism. The general maintenance of water in an organism and its quantity in sectors and organism fabrics changes with the years. The age less, the it is more in an organism the relative maintenance of water. At newborns it makes 80 % from their weight of a body, at the age of one year - 66 %, at the adult person - 60 % of weight.

In connection with natural losses of water through kidneys, a skin and exhaled air, for support of balance of water in an organism it is necessary to fill up constantly it at the expense of a liquid which contains in meal, potable water or drinks. At newborn and chest children the water exchange is characterised by high activity and instability. It is connected with immaturity at this age of systems, especially kidneys which regulate vodno-salt balance. In this connection preconditions for superfluous losses of water, and together with it - and mineral salts are formed. Such situations, as an overheat of the kid as a result zakutyvanija, the wrong unduly concentrated food, diseases which are accompanied by a body heat, a liquid chair, vomiting, etc. are especially dangerous

The condition of vodno-salt balance and risk of its infringement to a great extent depends on character of feeding of the child.

Chest milk of mother creates as much as possible favorable conditions for vodno-salt balance in an organism of the kid. Therefore in the first months of a life at chest feeding children do not demand, that to them in addition gave to drink water. In chest milk there is sufficient for the kid a quantity of a liquid (88 % from 100 ml of milk).

At the artificial feeding, especially not adapted dairy mixes, in an organism of the child are formed much more end-products of a metabolism (slags). It is necessary For their deducing for more liquid, than arrives with meal. Therefore kids who are on artificial feeding, require additional drink.

After feeding up introduction all children require additional drink of water or poorly made tea (it is desirable with a lemon juice), fruit or vegetable broth. The requirement for additional quantity of a free liquid is individual. It averages 50-200 ml a day, but in a hot season can be and bolshej.

It is necessary to give a liquid in the small portions between feedings (but not before feeding) or at night if the child has woken up.

In a liquid for drink it is not recommended to add sugar for the purpose of caries and accustoming preventive maintenance to the sweet.

At present in shops of a children's food there is a wide choice of soluble teas specially for the kids prepared in the convenient granulated form from extracts of ecologically pure herbs - camomiles, fenhelja, compositions of different grasses.

Soluble teas, depending on the mechanism of action of extracts of medicinal grasses, are recommended first of all with various frustration of digestion (a stomach swelling, intestinal gripes, a lock, a liquid chair, etc.), and also to kids with hypererethism, dream infringements, etc. from fenhelja or camomiles it is possible to give Tea to children instead of usual tea or water and to healthy children.

Consult to doctor before buying soluble tea. About methods of its application you learn from the information on a packing label.