Have you ever given such dangerous infant food to your children?

I have never given Liuliu any teething biscuits because subconsciously I felt it was risky. In addition, during the teething process of Liuliu, apart from the excessive drooling, it did not bother me, so I completely ignored this type of product and did not think of studying it carefully. A few days ago, a relative came to our house and told us with trepidation how her granddaughter choked on a teething stick. I was shocked to realize that this kind of thing actually happened around me. What happened is this: This relative is an aunt of mine. She usually takes care of her granddaughter at home and takes good care of her food. My daughter-in-law bought the teething stick from a well-known Australian infant food brand and told her that it could be used for her children to grind their teeth. She bit into it and found it was too hard to bite, so she felt free to let the child eat it. As a result, something went wrong if you were not careful. Although the molar stick is very hard, the child at seven or eight months old is the time when there is plenty of saliva. Although the molar stick still has a little hardness, most of it has been soaked soft, and the child Two more small front teeth had grown out, and they were bitten off in one fell swoop, and then they swallowed it ignorantly. But! At this moment, danger came. The lively and active child suddenly froze and coughed twice, very quietly. Within a few seconds, his face turned white, his lips quickly turned purple, and the child looked like he couldn\’t breathe. The aunt immediately realized that something was wrong, picked up the child, carried it over, put it on her knees, and patted it several times, until the child vomited out. The culprit was indeed the small piece of teething biscuit. The whole incident happened quickly, silently, but extremely terrifying. Holding the crying child in her arms, the aunt broke into a cold sweat. After hearing such shocking things from my aunt, I searched and discovered that teething biscuits, which I had always dismissed, had caused many problems and even tragedies. On June 21, 2012, Mr. Xu and his wife, who work in Wenzhou, also bought a teething stick for their baby. Mr. Xu and his wife said that just a few minutes after eating the teething stick, the baby suddenly choked and died of suffocation. (Source: This Morning Post) There are many problems abroad about teething biscuits causing children to suffocate. For example, on BabyCenter, the largest maternal and child forum, you can see reports and complaints about similar problems from parents in various countries. And when I was studying this matter carefully, there happened to be a mother in my circle of friends who was posting the teething biscuits she had chosen for her children. I couldn\’t help but remind them to use them with caution. Because after careful study, we found that these products are usually eaten by children who are a few months old. However, both the ingredients and the design of the biscuits themselves may cause safety hazards to babies. Tiny teething biscuits appear to be fully functional, but they are potentially fatal. ▷▷1: Suffocation risk: Complementary food for babies a few months old should be mushy at first, but teething biscuits, as mentioned above, can easily cause suffocation. ▷▷2: Unqualified testing standards: The School of Food Science of Southwest University conducted testing and found that many teething biscuits use the standards of ordinary biscuits, but do not meet the production standards of infant food. As for why teething biscuits are so popular, the concepts promoted by major merchants are in line with public psychology. The usual selling point is that they can supplement calcium and canHelp children grow teeth. In terms of safety performance, it is also said to be hard and can be chewed for a long time, but is this true? Things like this are not unique. There is actually a misunderstanding here. Misunderstanding 1: It is hard and cannot be bitten by children. In order to achieve the purpose of massaging the gums of children, teething biscuits are generally made relatively hard, unlike ordinary baby biscuits that are crispy and melt in the mouth. But biscuits are biscuits after all, and they will still be soaked in saliva. Especially for children with teeth, the semi-hard ones can be easily bitten off after being softened. It is this kind of hardness that can easily cause a child to suffocate if swallowed unexpectedly. We cannot precisely control the behavior of children biting and swallowing, and we may not always be able to grind out the edges little by little and be as safe as we think. It is precisely because of the hardness of teething biscuits that many parents misunderstand that their children can just eat them if they can\’t stop chewing them. So they can chew a biscuit for a long time and not pay attention to it for a whole day. And if an accident occurs, if no one discovers it, the consequences will be disastrous. Misunderstanding 2: Teething is late and calcium supplements are needed. Children who are several months old usually pay the most attention to each other about \”Have teeth come in?\” Many parents see other people\’s children teething in four or five months and tolerate it. I can\’t help but feel anxious, thinking that late teething is due to calcium deficiency. The selling point of many teething biscuits is calcium supplementation, but let’s first take a look at the ingredients of teething biscuits on the market. Basically they are wheat flour, milk powder, white sugar (we know this is very unsuitable for babies under one year old) and so on. We all know that for babies, the best food to supplement calcium is dairy products, but looking at the content of milk powder in each ingredient list, how can such ingredients supplement calcium? Each child\’s teething time differs from person to person. If your child still has no teeth when he is about 1 year old, don\’t worry. The time when your child\’s teeth will grow may be determined by genetics, so later teething does not mean that his development is slow. what is the problem. (Source: American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Encyclopedia) Myth 3: Teething biscuits help teething. It is true that during the teething period, children will drool wildly due to discomfort and love to bite things, including their own hands and everything they can grab. . Therefore, from the perspective of hygiene and safety, many parents try to relieve teething symptoms and help teeth grow faster. Many parents also think that small teething biscuits are not good for their children. It can grind teeth, can be used as food supplement, and can exercise grasping ability. However, in fact: the baby teething biscuits on the market are neither suitable for babies nor for teeth grinding. Because some teething biscuits are not hard enough and cannot massage the gums. If it is too hard, as mentioned above, it will be softened by saliva, which can easily put the child in danger of suffocation. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using your fingers to massage your child\’s gums when they are uncomfortable due to teething. You can also use solid teethers to bite your child, or use a cold towel to relieve the pain. The American Academy of Pediatrics also specifically points out: If you give your child teething biscuits, be sure to keep an eye on him while he eats them. The biscuits can easily become soft and separate, which may lead to choking. And these biscuits have no nutrition, most of themContains sugar and salt that are not suitable for babies to consume. First aid methods after suffocation. The most dangerous thing in infants and young children is suffocation. According to my aunt\’s description and the reaction of many people on the Internet when the child had a foreign object stuck in his throat, it was not the crying and struggling as we thought. Instead, it was silent and suffocating in an instant. The golden rescue only lasts four minutes. If time is wasted on the wrong method, the consequences will be disastrous. Never press the throat, drink water or other wrong methods, because this can easily cause foreign objects to penetrate deeper into the trachea. The American Academy of Pediatrics\’ Parenting Encyclopedia explains very clearly how to rescue children. Once the child is choking: 1: Shout for help 2: Start first aid 3: Dial 120 For babies under one year old: Once the baby is suffocated and unable to breathe, cough, shout or talk, follow the steps below. 1: Pat five times on the back 2: Apply five chest compressions Alternately perform the above two steps until the foreign body is removed. If the baby loses consciousness, begin CPR. The picture below is taken from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Parenting Encyclopedia. You can save it and study it carefully. For children aged 1 to 8 years old, the Heimlich maneuver is now the most widely used in case of suffocation. (Excerpted from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Parenting Encyclopedia) These methods are what we all need to learn. Because the danger caused by suffocation usually comes suddenly and silently. Only by mastering the correct first aid methods in daily life can we better help our children in times of crisis. The Heimlich maneuver is the global standard method for rescuing foreign bodies that accidentally enter the trachea, and is known as the \”embrace of life.\” However, there is still a difference between reading the information and actual operation. I previously participated in training organized by the Zhengzhou Emergency Medical Rescue Center (AHA certification agency) and obtained the AHA Global Rescue Qualification Certificate. For emergency rescue, professional training is still necessary. When many of us first learned the CPR method, we couldn\’t click any of the CPR methods correctly. After being corrected by the instructor, we mastered the skills and can click every CPR button. You can learn first aid at Red Cross societies everywhere, but the Red Cross does not have AHA certification. Mothers who want to learn systematically can contact the emergency medical rescue centers in provincial capital cities. In daily life, what we need to do more is to take preventive measures before they happen. Parents need to be careful about their children\’s diet, especially in infancy when their chewing ability and ability to predict danger are weak. Many solid foods, hard-to-chew meats, nuts, jellies, overly long foods, coins, etc. should be kept out of sight of infants and young children. Maybe we all have good intentions and want to relieve our children\’s discomfort and help them grow better, but many times, the market is flooded with many such \”good intentions but bad\” infant products, and many new parents are often easily fooled, such as Teething biscuits, after looking through the records in WeChat Moments, I found that most people have purchased them, so we need to review their risk factors again and again to judge whether they are really suitable for the growth and development of our children. In order not to be caught off guard, we need to learn and understand the eating habits that we should pay attention to in infants and young children, and the first aid methods to prevent problems in the bud. I hope this late articleChapter, can be useful to everyone.