NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.
"Even when they're very tiny, they have an intact thirst reflex or a drive to drink," Dr. Jennifer Anders, a pediatric emergency physician at the center, told Reuters Health. "When they have that thirst and they want to drink, the fluid they need to drink more of is their breast milk or formula."
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
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wow, this is the first time I am able to see this kind of information, if you can please put up more sources and i hope their credible enough, I will be thanking you enough. babies in our countries are even fed soft foods before they reach 6 months. lol
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