Why is frequent thirst ?
The child - being very emotional. And emotions cause thirst : Remember how anxious people are often offered a drink of water to come into balance? And it is absolutely right and normal: replenishing fluid loss leads to normal people all systems of the body - the cardiovascular, nervous, digestive and others. From the amount of fluid you drink it depends on our mood, blood pressure, and other important factors. Alas, many of us, and especially children, need time to forget about drinking. What to do? Reminding! At the age of 4 to 6 years of age a child should drink every day about 1 liter of fluid. Children from 10 to 13 years - about 1, 2 liters of various beverages.
By the way, a glass of water - not the only way to defeat hunger. For instance, watermelon or cucumber also contain large amounts of water, and in the season can be a great source of not only high-quality liquid and mineral salts, and vitamins. And do not forget that in the hot season and sports activities (as well as during outdoor games) the need to drink may even double. Do not forget that a fluid deficit may reduce the concentration of the child, and more serious dehydration lead to extreme fatigue and even headaches. Therefore offer the child water is not only after exercise, but after it, and at the time - also.
What do you have in the glass?
The perfect drink that will fill all your fluid loss and it does not harm the health and figure, should not contain calories (or to keep them as small as possible). Therefore, the best thirst quencher - a mineral water. Whether you prefer carbonated or non-carbonated water: and she and the other an excellent job with thirst.
If for some reason you or your child do not like plain water, try fruit or herbal tea without sugar - they contain almost no calories and as well with thirst. Fruit juice - a great drink, besides containing vitamins and other useful components. Most children drink juices with great pleasure. However, we must not forget that fruits contain natural sugar, which provides a fairly high calorie juice. So try to choose the juice, to which was added an additional sugar (information about this is bound to have on the package), and even better - prefer juices, diluted with water. This can be simply independently juice mix with water in the proportions 1/3 and 2/3 water juice, or immediately buy dilute juice based beverage.
Alternate drinks! In the morning - cereal coffee, for dinner - juice and mineral water at lunch - a cup of tea ... Keep a bottle of mineral water or a thermos of hot drink and do not forget from time to time to do a few mouthfuls. It really will protect you and your children from many health problems.
How to teach your child to drink on a regular basis? In fact, it is not so difficult:
- Be sure to put on the table drinks during each meal;
- From time to time to remind your child that it is time to make a few sips of water or tea;
- Take a walk on the water, and let the child will own bottle. By the way, get him a personal water bottle for school, kindergarten, travel ...
Be careful with soda!
Of course, if you go shopping with your child and ask him to choose drinks - no doubt, he will fill the basket with colored soda and Coke: because these drinks are sweet and fragrant! Alas, precisely because of the fact that they are so sweet and fragrant, they can drink rarely and little. A huge amount of sugar (sometimes up to 40 grams per 100 ml of the drink!) Makes this a very high-calorie soda, also proved that they increase appetite, and as a result the person gets a lot more calories than you should. A coloring and flavors that are part of such beverages can not only cause allergies but also digestive disorders.
Milk - the food, not drink!
Attention all mothers and grandmothers in particular, seeking to "pour" in the child more valuable product - milk! Milk actually contains many useful substances, protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and mineral salts. It is quite rich in calories, improves mood and helps sleep at night, because the rich natural "sedative" - theobromine. However, the milk - it is ... food, not drink! Therefore, if you are offered a child for breakfast or dinner, milk, be sure to also give a glass of water to make up the required amount of liquid. After the milk has a special emulsion structure and quenches thirst. By the way, the same goes for sour milk drink - kefir, sour milk and other things. Furthermore - some of which have a diuretic effect, and therefore require additional drinking receipt organism.
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