Lactating mothers should avoid adding salt, sugar, or honey to their baby’s meals, according to a Ghanaian pediatrician.
Dr Hilda Mantebea Boye of the Ghanaian Pediatric Society has urged lactating women to avoid giving their babies foods containing sugar and honey.
Soft foods are recommended after six months of nursing, but they should be offered without salt, sugar, or honey.
Dr. Boye explained that because babies’ kidneys are not fully developed during their early stages of development, adding salt, sugar, or honey to the food they are given will impact their kidneys negatively.
She stated that there is a specific quantity of sugar in the breast milk, and that the body babies is capable of dissolving sugar from any meal consumed by the them. The kidneys of infants are not sufficiently developed enough to manage the extra load given by salt, sugar, or honey.
Dr. Boye, appearing on GTV’s Breakfast show with Kafui Dey, defines an infant as someone under the age of one, therefore infancy begins at birth.She explained that a newborn lasts from day one to 28 days, after which they become infants.
She also stated that putting honey in your baby’s meals can lead to infant botulism.Dr. Boye remarked, “We do not recommend adding honey to the meal for newborns because it leads them to get something called baby botulism because the honey can be contaminated with germs that might make them sick.” She also stated that infants do not require sugar because sugar is present in breast milk, and that whatever food babies consume, their bodies are capable of absorbing the proper quantity of salt and sugar.Everything a baby need in the first six months after birth is embedded in breast milk, according to the pediatrician, which is why the World Health Organization recommends that they be fed solely during this time.
She suggested that after your kid reaches the age of six months, other soft meals be added to the breast milk because breast milk would no longer be sufficient.
She also advised nursing mothers to feed their children at least 10 times a day.
“We want the infant fed ten times in the next twenty-four hours,” she said. That works out to two or three hours per day. Babies should eat every two to three hours.
Everything a baby need in the first six months after birth is embedded in breast milk, according to the pediatrician, which is why the World Health Organization recommends that they should be fed solely with breast milk during this time.
She suggested that after your baby reaches the age of six months, other soft meals should be added to the breast milk because the breast milk would no longer be sufficient.
She also advised nursing mothers to feed their children at least 10 times a day.
“We want the infant fed ten times in the next twenty-four hours,” she said. That works out to two or three hours per day. Babies should eat every two to three hours.
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