Chocolate is crazy! How easily children get restless.

Recently, Taiwan Province Province was caught in a "dessert buying whirlwind", from an earlier French fries brother, BearBiscuit Maruko, with a supermarket ice cream in one hand to Raytheon chocolate. Among them, Raytheon chocolate and the "Hanshin chocolate" recently launched by supermarkets are more popular, even causing Japanese manufacturers to stop supplying because of shortage. Faced with such a rush to buy chocolate candy, doctors called on parents to pay attention to their children's intake. Eating too much chocolate will not only affect children's nutritional balance and body metabolism, but may even make children more restless.

Chocolate is a favorite dessert for adults and children, but excessive caffeine intake may affect children's central nervous system. (Photo/Luo Shihua) Lai Rouyin, an attending physician of the Department of Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents in Songde Hospital of United Hospital, pointed out that unprocessed cocoa or dark chocolate can indeed lower blood pressure and diastolic pressure and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases, but now most children eat processed snacks with artificial additives, so it is not appropriate to eat too much.

Snacks containing hidden caffeine: chocolate and cola

Dr. Lai Rouyin reminded that according to Canadian research recommendations, the daily intake of children aged 4-6 should not exceed 45 mg, and the upper limit is 63 mg for children aged 7-9, 85 mg for children aged 65,438+00-65,438+02. However, since the metabolism of Asians is naturally slow, the recommended amount in the guide should be revised. Caffeine can affect the central nervous system and affect sleep. When the baby drinks breast milk, it may also indirectly ingest caffeine, which makes the baby easily restless, crying and difficult to appease, so some newborn mothers also need special attention.

As for children around 3 or 4 years old, because they are experiencing separation anxiety and building a sense of security, eating chocolate at this time is more likely to make children excited. For adults, it usually takes only 3~7 hours to metabolize caffeine, but the metabolic rate of children is low, and it even takes as long as 30 hours for newborns to metabolize caffeine. Among the general snacks, chocolate and cola are the most likely foods for children to unconsciously consume excessive caffeine.