There is an opinion that salt is not a very useful product even for healthy people. What to talk about patients? In particular of the phenylketonuria tile, the basis of which is the principle of compliance with the diet? So, should be salted food of ill phenylketonuria? Let's understand.
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Salt or not to salt - that is the question
So, Sol. - Friend or enemy? Interesting question, is not true? It may seem that long and unnecessary conversations will now begin, but knowledgeable people will immediately understand what it is. In this article you will find an interesting parental experience and a small medical comment.
And it will be about the features of the nutrition of people with phenylketonuria, above all children, as adults with FCU already know about these features and independently change their diet.
In many families, it is noted that the usual nutrition of people with FCU is relatively poor salt. What usually eat our loved ones? Starch products (pasta, baking, etc.), soups, sweets, porridge, bread, various dishes from vegetables and fruits and t.D. It would seem that we do everything, constituting a delicious and diverse diet. But everything changes when children «Open» for myself …salt.
Here are some stories. Mom tells a four-year-old girl. «We sat at a shared table, noting the arrival of relatives. Baby ate the entire right portion of the porridge, received cookies for dessert and now happily rushed with other children, slowly looking at the new people. Brother sat her knees and offered to try the cucumbers brought from the mother. What began here! Daughter literally clung to this cucumber! She demanded also, she refused the offered candies and lollipops, she needed only cucumbers! She had a real hysteria! I had to give it up, although that day we moved the protein.
This case has taught me a lot. I thought - if the body requires, then he really needs. Man is not an enemy. Indeed, as the daughter could get a sufficient amount of salt? There were no salts in the diet. We ate porridge, baking, soups, pasta, fruit and vegetable puree. Who tried a vegetable puree from a jar bought in the store, he knows what it is tasteless, because salt is almost devoid of salt. But I thought - but what other children? For some reason they do not rush to salt cucumbers? And I immediately remembered I have been remembered on the school playground: children, potato chips, salty nuts, crackers, sandwiches with sausage, cheese. Well, at home they will probably eat fat, seler, caviar and all that. All clear.
I was upset, but I decided to act. Became stronger to put soups, vegetable puree, fresh salads. Several times a week, it was sure to give pickled cucumbers (she did not love tomatoes) and always carefully treated her request to give something salty. We even became specially planting cucumbers for your daughter, according to a special recipe, where less spices, because we had a case when I had a very sharp cucumber, she got sick (she had a weak throat). Now I am an experienced mom (smiles), we have everything in order, and to pickles on the festive table, the daughter treats absolutely calm».
In this case, mom intuitively accepted the right decision, and everything was normalized. However, not all moms are so wise. Noting kids addiction to sauerkraut, cabbage, tomato or cucumber brine, they impede the natural desires of the child, fearing harm. Here are listening.
«Somehow I prepared a lunch in the kitchen, the child was with me, and I spoke on the phone. Having finished the conversation, I turned to the table and froze from amazement: the son Makal's hand in salt, slowly brought his fingers to the mouth, thoroughly licked them, then lowered his hand again, and everything was repeated first. I was frightened - my mom has pressure, she can not salt, and I thought - suddenly the child will be bad? Tried to quickly distract him, and then it became salt constantly hiding. Then I learned that it was wrong.
On the advice of another mom, I began to add salt into the son's diet. Now we regularly eat salty cucumbers, we make all the dishes, we love saline tomatoes, especially with potatoes, and rasidens and saltkees - our most beloved soups!»
Wonderful story that ended well due to mom's care. And yet, why our children pull so much? Is there something wrong with them? The answer is unequivocal: no! Everything is alright with them! Just they really lack this substance in a daily diet.
An ordinary person in the modern world receives salt with food in too large quantities (with smoked, sausage, fish, meat, caviar, cheeses, patests and t.D.), quickly gets used to this and all the time seeks to pamper yourself with these goodies again and again. And what to talk about people who adhere to a special diet and limit the animal products in nutrition, which are just containing more than others.
Salt and phenylketonuria
But, firstly, there is no dangerous shortage of salt at all in the diet. Secondly, people with healthy adrenal glands, including people with PKU, the salt conservation mechanism works flawlessly. The body always retains and saves salt in an amount that provides its survival and normal operation. With any nutrition, a healthy organism delays salt and preserves it, so all the concerns about the fact that the diet with phenylketonurium can be dangerous due to the insufficient content of this substance, absolutely groundless.
But why then some children are so «Pick up» in pickles when they see them? The fact is that some restriction of salt in the diet does not pass for the body «Unnoticed», The voltage in the mechanisms responsible for saving the salt increases, the person is as if configured to search for salt, prepares for «Battle for Nee», To satisfy it at the first case. It happens at the moment when the child «opens» For yourself Sol. Feeling salty taste, the body understands - this is what I need, and it is useless to argue with him.
And what happens if still mom because of fear to harm will hide from the baby Solonka? In most cases - nothing. Everything will be fine, the child will be as necessary to develop normally and feel well, as the body will still get the necessary for him «saline» minimum.
But in some cases, some children may have certain symptoms. The child becomes sluggish, he worsens appetite, he begins to drink less, because of what problems with the chair can begin, dry skin and t.D. All this usually passes independently if the baby in the near future will receive a little more salt with food than usual. So it happens. And if not - the compensatory possibilities of the body are so great that serious consequences almost never arise. There are problems with appetite, chair, leather, which are usually sooner or later solved. Once the child himself will tell you how to solve these problems when it starts to ask salt.
But still answer the question why the child does not want to drink and, most importantly, how to handle it? Nature has created us so that in all body fluids there should be a strictly defined salt concentration. If the salt is small, the body is protected from water so that the salt concentration is not reduced below the allowable value. So the child disappears the feeling of thirst, and he does not want to drink. Make it drinking water is useless! The body will defend itself at any cost, even vomiting! Only salt can help here. If the body gets salt, he «Wanted» dilute it, the child will have thirst, and he will start drinking. All simple. As we said, the children usually decide these problems themselves, the main thing - they do not interfere.
Here you need to make a small but very important digression. If you yourself did not hurt, you probably know about the stories of other people how a person does not feel after severe illness or complex surgery. He does not want and can not eat and drink. One of the reasons is a sharp loss of salt due to a strong sweating, and in some cases - vomiting or diarrhea. In the complex of therapeutic measures, saline solutions are always prescribed, such as reciprons. Only so the person is restored by physiological thirst and healthy appetite. Cases of deaths of people are described when in such cases they were forced to drink only clean water, not giving (by mistake, of course) saline solution. Fortunately, now these cases are rare.
The example above shows how dangerous to the body can be a shortage of salt. However, we recall that such cases - the extremes that are never found in healthy people, no matter what diet they get. For greater confidence, let's remember at least herbivores - they do not make food, but there are safely existence.
Listen to your baby
And a few more words in defense of salt. To better understand our children, so zealously defending «right to salt» let's remember yourself at the moments of fatigue, when the health is unimportant and always want to eat something, but not to understand what you want? We go to the refrigerator and choose, as a rule, a piece of smoked meat, sausages, a delicious, or something like that - tasty and salty. Imagine that at this moment someone good and caring appears, comes up and selects our «delicacy». Well, how?
Giving preference to salty, we intuitively do the way our ancestors advised, which in the old days were treated with overwork (mental and physical) with strong cucumber brine.
Unconvincing? Then we listen to Avicenna, the famous Arabic doctor and philosopher, who lived over 2,000 years ago: «If the appetite disappeared due to weakness, such as recovering, …then the patient in this case is recommended to eat unripe saline olives or a little salty fish…Good tool for excitation of appetite is salt…».
So let's get sick with salt. Let's let our close to decide how much salt they need. Let's not afraid of kids. Nature itself cares about their health. And our task is to help her a bit!
Note: All of the above in the article applies only to children over 2 years old. Never add salt to nutrition of small, especially newborn children! Therapeutic mixtures and breast milk substitutes are always fully balanced by the yonic composition, and the addition of salt can only harm, bringing severe disorders of water and salt metabolism.
In children over 2 years old, described in the article, symptoms of malaise due to salt deficiency usually take place within 1-2 days after adding salt to the diet. If this did not happen, it means that there is no excuse associated with other reasons, so consult a doctor without delay.
