How good is the child to eat salt?

Children's tastes are related to parents, parents' tastes are heavy, and the salt content of children's diet will also increase. It is understood that at present, the salt content of the family in our country is generally excessive.

Some people think that salt is the first of many tastes, so that children eat more salty dishes, can adjust the taste, and promote children's appetite. Even if parents know that eating more salt is harmful to the body, they think that it is for patients with nephritis or hypertension.

In fact, people who suffer from kidney disease and high blood pressure are also harmful if they eat salty. The main component of salt is sodium chloride, in which sodium ions are closely related to hypertension and kidney disease, and thus suffer from hypertension and nephritis to reduce the amount of salt.

The medical science has found that eating too much salt on a daily basis is prone to cause cardiovascular disease, and thus advocates a low-salt diet, and it is the same for children. In addition, eating too much salt in children is still the cause of upper respiratory tract infections.

First of all, a high-salt diet can reduce saliva secretion in the oral cavity and reduce the amount of lysozyme, which is beneficial to the presence of various bacteria and viruses in the upper respiratory tract. Second, due to salt penetration, high salt diet can kill the upper respiratory tract. The parasitic flora causes dysbacteriosis and leads to morbidity. Third, a high-salt diet inhibits the proliferation of mucosal epithelial cells, rendering them resistant to disease.

These factors will make the upper respiratory mucosa to resist the impact of disease, weakening, plus the child's immune ability itself is lower than in adults, and easy to catch cold, a variety of bacteria, viruses can take the opportunity to enter, resulting in upper respiratory tract infection. Therefore, when parents prepare meals for their children, they must pay attention to reducing the salt composition and use iodized salt to facilitate the healthy development of the child's brain.