It is known that mother’s milk is the ideal food for the baby in the first months of his birth, and then begins at the fourth month of his life to eat complementary foods for breastfeeding, and the best of these foods honey bees, since our ancestors since ancient times were honey-born honey for their benefit and encourage the baby But this habit has changed now that the child begins to take honey at the age of the age of his age, fearing that the child will feel the consumption of honey in the age of less than a year.
Benefits of honey for children
The honey contains many therapeutic and nutritional properties. It contains compounds and substances essential for the body, including sugars, vitamins K-vitamin and vitamin B9. In addition to the carotene, which turns in the liver into vitamin A, it also contains enzymes and a group of mineral salts, acids and proteins The most important of which is globulin, which is responsible for the formation of red blood cells in the body.
Many studies have shown that honey exceeds many other foods as a dietary supplement that improves the overall health of children. Especially if added to a diet table for sick children it works on:
- Provide the child with high calorie, which will increase the child’s movement and energy and thus grow healthy and healthy.
- Also has a positive effect on children with chest diseases, who suffer from persistent cough, synchronized with doctors’ constant warning of influenza medicines and chest diseases for children under the age of six.
- The honey provides the body of the child with iron and folic acid, which increase the red blood cells, and increase the hemoglobin hemodynamic.
- Gastrointestinal disorders and malnutrition in children stands for honey in the lookout, it helps to absorb and represent the starch and sugar.
- The presence of antimicrobial and fungal properties in honey helps to prevent diseases.
Recipes for honey to feed the baby
- In the case of nasal encephalitis in the child: chew a small piece of beeswax with honey for ten minutes and repeated daily from five to six times, this will alleviate the disease and continue until the child completely healed.
- Cough and lung treatment: A small cup of honey, add a teaspoon of ginger with lemon juice, and taken by a tablespoon of three times a day.
- In cases of liver infections in children: taken by a teaspoon of three to four times a day until the child is completely recovered, it is worth mentioning that honey is not given to the child without nine months and is given only 30 milligrams.