Infants Diet:

Infant is usually is accustomed to mother's milk. The  substituted milk should resemble mother's milk in  quality and taste is concerns. Such a milk is made by mixing freshly procured  cow's milk with boiled water in the ratio of 2:1 and add little sugar.

It makes a best meal for the child of 6 months age  after six months mashed and boiled vegetables or fruit should  be added.

The mothersgenerally  have a misconception that light food does not make child strong and start feeding crushed biscuit thick gruel in milk etc. Such substances have high solid contents causing  an avoidable overload of  the stomach resulting into indigestion, flatulence, irritation in the organs with griping pain, now the need arises for medicines like carminatives or purging agents, which make the digestive system of the infant week. The infant grows with continuous use of unnecessary drugs cordials, narcotics and antispasmodics simply by the continuing of wrong diet.

Infant can be saved from the troubles if simple diet as suggested above is given. Moreover the milk should be pure and fresh and not skimmed milk or stored milk already having water premixed. It is advisable that during summer season only fresh milk directly from cow should be preferably taken. Only the required milk's quantity and boiled water should  just before feeding the baby. Every meal should be freshly prepared and old left over should be rejected. It is advised that milk shuld not be heated over fire, just mix sugar and boiling water to it.

With the infant getting old ratio of  milk and boiled water should be increased from 2:1 ratio 3:1 ratio of water and milk. There s no ineed making  any change of the contents of milk. It is a wrong notion that children require various food varieties. Nature has made infants to grow on milk only any addition of semisolids they arel notready to digest and shall overstress their weak digestive system.

Food can be spoon fed or by a feeding bottle. Spoon feeding should be avoided because the food just goes in the stomach with proper mixing of sliva into it. The food should go onto the stomach slowly, which is only possible infant sucking milk from the feeding bottle allowing saliva getting mixed and food is easily digested than otherwise.

According to  childs age milk quantity given should be regulated. The experience shall guide the mother to adjust milk/ water ratio with the child's growing infant. Always the mistake of the mothers is overfeeding the child seriously affecting child's health, which can be prevented.

The mistake of over feeding child usually is most common cause of indigestion, irritation of bowels and nervous irritation. More over there should be a diet time schedule to be made and observed with great care. The food for the infant should be given in small quantity at frequent intervals. Stomach of infant is designed for receiving food for digestion and not to receive medicines to treat constipation, drugs to aid digestion and relieve hyperacidity or stimulants. If there is dependence on these medicines, there is a definitely a fault in the management of food preparation and being used for feeding  infants.
 
The quantity and frequency of feed of infant is based on the principle of giving the next feed only, when the previous feed has been digested, which shall automatically create signs of appetite. Normally there should be a gap of 3-4 hours between each feed. Without following such a schedule the infant shall receive the feed before previous one is digested thus undigested food enters the bowls causing fermentation process and gas formation causing abdominal distention and the harmful gas traveling in upward direction in the intestinal tract causing unpleasant feeling. The feed given is neither digested nor assimilated in the body.

The other care should be taken of about child's posture when getting feed. During feeding. Donot feed the child in lying position.Child's head be kept raised resting on the arm of the mother and after the feed is completed the child for some time should remain resting on the shoulder of the mother for about 30 minutes . This is important for proper digestion.
 the time child gets teeth now semi solid diet consisting of boiled and mashed vegetables or mashed food should be given along with milk. At this stage the child feeding should be started to with the help of spoon. With more teeth appearing half boiled egg or pudding of cereals can be given. Animal food should be avoided because infant's the digestive system is not ready to digest the animal food.

In the absence of dentition the child cannot digest any solid food irrespective of the fact whether it is from vegetable source or animal source. The sold food needs to be masticated and mixed up with saliva rendering it suitable for digestion.

If the child without dentition in place is fed solid food, ifood particle shall not be reduced to smaller size and with further absence of sliva mixing with food, it shall never be digested and can cause injuries to the digestive organs and a state of uncomfortable feeling to the child. This practice is precursor of future diseases of  digestive system for the child.