Patient's question:
My son really likes to drink milk, not breast milk, but milk made from powdered milk. He's now at the age where he should stop drinking milk and start eating solid food, but he just doesn't like porridge and only loves drinking milk. I don't know what to do. Milk can't replace meals, right?What kind of help do I need: How should infants and young children drink milk for better health?
Doctor's answer:
Milk contains most of the nutrients that the human body needs and is the only complete nutritional food. As a natural food, it can be used without any further processing after pasteurization. However, for infants and young children, many feeding precautions need to be taken. Sugar should not be added when boiling milk. Experiments have shown that cooking milk with sugar produces a toxic substance, and adding sugar also greatly reduces the nutritional value of milk. If sweet milk must be consumed, it is best to add sugar only when the milk has cooled to lukewarm――this is the correct way to add sugar.