Q: Can a one-and-a-half-year-old baby drink cold boiled water and yogurt that has just been taken out of the refrigerator?
A: Yes, yes.
Drinking water with lukewarm water is probably a unique habit of Chinese people. Influenced by traditional thinking, our tradition believes that eating raw and cold food or drinking cold water can easily lead to stomach cold.
In the past, the water sanitation conditions were poor, and the drinking water was contaminated by pathogenic bacteria. Vomiting, etc. The ancients did not understand the pathogenic microorganisms, so they may mistake the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis caused by infection as “cold in the stomach and intestines”.
Modern medicine has a clearer understanding of the disease, knowing that acute gastroenteritis is mainly caused by rotavirus, norovirus, Escherichia coli Gastric and duodenal ulcers are mainly caused by Helicobacter pylori. Boil water, high temperature can kill bacteria and viruses. In areas with poor water sanitation, it is safer to drink boiled water, but the temperature of drinking water will not affect the body.
Some people worry that too cold water will damage organs, this is superfluous. Even if it is ice water, after the mouth and esophagus are warmed, it will not be so cold. If cold water can damage organs, it should be the mouth and esophagus that are more likely to be injured, not the stomach and intestines further behind. Have you ever heard of anyone drinking cold water and hurting the mouth or esophagus?
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Some people worry that cold water will lower the gastrointestinal temperature and affect organ function. In fact, humans are warm-blooded animals, and the temperature in the stomach is also the core body temperature of the human body, which is constant, and the temperature of the abdominal organs including the stomach and intestines is also constant. A person can drink a few hundred milliliters of water at most, which will not affect the body temperature and will not cause “cold in the stomach and intestines”.
Even if the gastrointestinal temperature drops a little for a short time, it will soon return to normal due to blood circulation, even if the body temperature drops a little for a short time, The body temperature center signals the body to return to normal by generating more heat through muscle twitching. If you can cool down by drinking cold water, then it is too easy to get rid of fever; if you lose a little heat, it will hurt your vitality, and you have to drink it back every time you pee. Can be aphrodisiac.
If you want to say that the “cold” of cold water does not refer to temperature, then I don’t know what it is. I only know that in most countries and regions in the world, adults and children basically drink cold water, and their health is no worse than ours, not to mention that our physiques are not the same. Back then, our ancestors could only drink cold water.
As long as the water is clean and the child is willing, you can drink lukewarm or cold water, as well as room temperature milk and frozen yogurt. If you don’t like cold water yourself, or you feel uncomfortable drinking cold water, then don’t drink it, but don’t stop your child from drinking cold water for nonexistent reasons, and you don’t need to force your child to drink warm water in the name of love.
Also, there is already evidence that temperatures above 60°C Hot drinks can cause damage to the esophageal mucosa, thereby increasing the risk of esophageal cancer[1], so there is nothing to worry about with ice water and ice yogurt. Be careful with hot soup and hot tea.
References:
[1 ]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773211/
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