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Can a two-year-old baby drink ginger soup?
Can a two-year-old baby drink ginger soup?

Yes, but ginger has the function of warming stomach, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is ok to drink ginger soup occasionally, but it is not suitable for long-term drinking. Drinking ginger soup for a long time is easy to cause heat accumulation in the body.

Baby under 2 years old: the digestive function of the stomach is not perfect, so it is not recommended to drink ginger soup. Ginger soup is a good health food and an indispensable seasoning in cooking, which can dispel cold and sweat, stimulate appetite, promote digestion and sterilize. However, ginger is pungent and warm, which has a stimulating effect on the stomach. Therefore, the gastrointestinal digestive function of babies under 2 years old is still not perfect, so it is not recommended to drink ginger soup.

Ginger is only used as a condiment and can be eaten by two-year-old children. When cooking at ordinary times, adding some ginger powder will not affect the health of two-year-old children. However, if you directly give your child a large piece of ginger, it will cause an unnecessary burden on your child's gastrointestinal health. Therefore, parents should pay attention to eating ginger in moderation for two-year-old children, and don't easily use ginger to make remedies for children.

Ginger contains a substance called gingerol, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and improve gastrointestinal digestive function. It is precisely because ginger utensils contain gingerol that parents are advised not to give their children food containing gingerol before going to bed, so as to avoid the acceleration of gastrointestinal peristalsis caused by gingerol at night, thus affecting the children's gastrointestinal health.

When cooking, parents don't have to deliberately avoid ginger. It is good for children to eat ginger in moderation. Ginger has the effect of dispelling cold. When a child has a cold or stomach upset after a cold, drinking some Jiang Shui in moderation can also relieve the cold and stomach upset.