Honey
Honey is a complete food has a high nutritional value, honey is taken from bees and stored in the cells of six hexagonal shape, and honey contains vitamins and minerals of great importance to young people and adults, and because of the great benefits of honey honey has become a source of infant nutrition and as some of the nutrition companies for children Honey was used in the production of many of its products, such as milk, and baby food, which begins after six months.
Benefits of honey for babies
- Build the baby’s body and give the baby energy to contain the honey on sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, copper, zinc and iodine, all important elements to strengthen the body of the baby.
- To stimulate and strengthen the infant’s stomach. This is because honey contains barley yeast.
- Protecting the digestive system from diseases that may affect it is a useful medicine for infants to get rid of digestive waste, and to remove constipation and also rid the baby of gases.
- Strong antibiotic, it is anti-bacteria and bacteria.
- Improve the sleep of the baby, because honey helps to relax the baby, and makes him in a happy psychological state.
- Treatment of colds and treatment of respiratory problems. It treats coughs, colds and colds. This is done by eating a large honey spoon mixed with warm milk.
- Helps in bone growth and tooth growth. Honey has great benefits in osteoporosis because it contains calcium, phosphorus, fluorine and vitamin D, so it protects children from rickets and protects them from arthritis.
- It treats anemia, anemia, because honey increases the hemoglobin in the blood, and also contains vitamin C.
- Strengthens the immunity of infants, and this is done by eating a teaspoon of honey a day and can be mixed with a cup of fresh orange juice.
- It is used to treat burns and various wounds.
Avoid eating honey
The honey in its full form is not blended exclusively to infants over the age of one year, because doctors warned to take the infant, who is less than a year to eat honey because of the risk of it and these risks:
- May lead to food poisoning of the child, which results in many symptoms such as the impact of the breathing process in the child and sometimes leads to sudden death.
- May lead to a disease called thoracic poisoning, and this disease causes weakness in the bones of the neck and feet and hands, so the child is unable to express his demands may reach the end of the disease to the inability of the child to cry and not to breastfeed.