Can a three-year-old baby drink honey water?

As we all know, honey has the effects of detoxification, beauty, acne removal, nourishing and laxative. Using honey to make a facial mask can also replenish moisture. It has a high sugar content and can help digest food and replenish energy for the body. Honey has many benefits, of course not just those mentioned above. Moreover, more and more people now drink a glass of honey water after getting up in the morning to detoxify and beautify their skin. Since it has so many benefits, can a three-year-old baby with a fragile gastrointestinal tract drink this honey water?

3-year-old babies have started to add complementary foods, and they can eat some honey appropriately.

Can a 3-year-old baby eat honey?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, honey is sweet, neutral in nature, and enters the spleen, lung, heart, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, tonifying deficiency and moistening the lungs, detoxifying, and harmonizing various medicines. It is often used for lung dryness and cough, physical weakness, intestinal dryness and constipation, mouth ulcers, burns from water or fire, and stomach pain. It can also detoxify Aconitum and Aconite.

Honey contains fructose, glucose, enzymes, proteins, vitamins and various minerals. Regular consumption can prevent and treat anemia, heart disease, gastrointestinal diseases, etc., and can improve body immunity. So children can eat some honey appropriately.

Three things to note when your baby eats honey:

1. The best time for babies to eat honey.

There are many requirements for the time when babies eat honey. Generally, it is more appropriate to eat it 1-1.5 hours before meals or 2-3 hours after meals, because eating honey during this time will not affect the child’s normal diet, but also is beneficial to the body’s digestion and absorption, and increases the child’s appetite. For babies who have poor sleep, eating honey before going to bed every night can promote sleep, because honey has the effect of calming the mind, improving intelligence and improving sleep.

2. The baby should eat a reasonable dose of "honey".

The amount of honey a baby consumes mainly depends on the purpose and need of taking honey. The general dosage is 30 grams per day, which can be taken with warm water in several doses. Under normal circumstances, a slightly larger dosage is used for treatment, and a slightly smaller dosage is used for health care. At the same time, it is necessary to flexibly control the dosage according to the actual physical condition of each baby. If the dosage is too small, the corresponding effect will not be achieved, and it is unnecessary to use too large a dosage. It needs to be determined according to the individual's circumstances.

3. Scientific ways for babies to eat honey and the taboos of eating honey.

Fresh ripe honey can be eaten directly or prepared into an aqueous solution. But avoid taking honey with boiling water or steaming it at high temperature, as high temperature will seriously destroy the nutrients and active enzymes in honey. Therefore, it is best to dilute honey with warm or cold boiled water below 40°C before consumption.

Honey is equivalent to a relatively cheap health product for adults. Although it is cheap, it has high nutritional value. 3-year-old babies can eat some honey appropriately, but please note that honey can speed up gastrointestinal motility, so babies with poor gastrointestinal function or diarrhea should consume it with caution. In addition, foods that are incompatible with honey are tofu and leeks, so please keep them in mind.