2. What kind of water is the healthiest?

The boiled water without sweet taste is preferred.

If baby gets used to drinking the water with sweet taste, such as beverage, moderately he would not like to be breast-fed. It is not good for baby increase and development. So do not give miniature baby beverage, especially those beverages which comprise synthetic additive, because the synthetic additive will stimulate the stomach and intestinal tract of baby. Slightly it will cause ache and hamper assimilation function of baby stomach. What the worse is that it will cause convulsion.

3. When to drink water?

Besides the behavior of demanding water, we Ordinarily give baby water to drink while two times of breast-feeding, long time staying outdoor, after taking a bath, after he wakes up, before go to sleep in the evening. But don’t give him the water before breast-feeding, in order to avoid the ensue of breast-feeding.

4. How much water a day is suitable?

There are much factors which will sway the demand of the water for human body, such as age, room temperature, humidity, active degree, animal heat, milk and the water contained on the food. Generally speaking, in the neonatal period, due to much times of breast-feeding, if the breast milk is sufficient, 1-2 times of feeding is enough. With the growing of baby, times of feeding water and the capacity of water should increase. But in fact how much water baby may drinks, it depends on the own will of baby. That is to say, if he doesn’t like to drink when feeding him water, just let it be. That means there is adequate water on baby body.

Under normal circumstance, do not give water to a baby of 3-year-old over 100 milliliter. When baby is above 3 years old, you may increase the volume of water to 150 milliliter. As long as the urine is normal, children can drink water with a miniature and any times agreeing to the actual situation. You may increase times of drinking water if baby perspires a lot, but do not increase the volume of water each time. The babies under 4 months with exclusive breast-feeding can drink no water if there is no sweatiness. Because feeding them water will decrease the volume of milk they drink and it is not good for fascinating nutrition.

5. What is the suitable temperature of water for baby to drink?

Due to the tender gastrointestinal mucosa of baby and young children, they could not undergo with the stimulation of super-cooling or superheated water. If you feed baby with the ice water in summer, your baby will feel uncomfortable and even convulsion. The superheated water will scald your baby. Therefore, in summer, baby should drink the water with room temperature and in winter the temperature of water should be about 40 degree centigrade.

After research, drinking the water which is boiled and then cooled to room temperature is good for health. The water which is boiled and cooled contains half less gas than the water which is not boiled, and the cohesion in the middle of water molecules is increased. Such water is much fulfilled, to the characteristic of water which contained in the cells of human body and it has the good affinity with the cell of human body. So cool boiled water is surely absorbed by human body and permeates the cell membrane. It is propitious to metabolism, increasing hemoglobin and improving immune function. After scientists’ observation, the human who often drinks the cooled boiled-water, the operation of dehydrogenated enzyme oh his body is high and is not easy to feel tired.

It should be noted that the gas will back to water again when cooled boiled-water exposed in the air. Therefore, the water which is boiled and cooled for 4-6 hours is the optimal drinking water. Cooled boiled-water will be polluted by bacteria when reserved long time and dump repeatedly. So don’t boil too much water each time. Do not boil the cooled boiled-water repeatedly, otherwise, heavy metal on the water will be concentrated and harm human health. It is better to drink the cooled boiled-water of same temperature with room temperature in summer. And in winter you should drink warmer boiled-water, because cool water will do harm to the tender gastrointestinal mucosa of baby and sway its assimilation function, moreover, it will cause bellyache, inappetence and even gastricism.